Today I want to talk about a word that has left many of our vocabularies. The word is persistence. Persistence means: Refusing to give up or let go or continuing firmly or obstinately in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition. We set our goals, we set up our plan and we start off determined to reach them. However, most of us, me included, never reach what we are aiming for. The reason for most of us is we give up too soon. We lack the unwavering persistence we need to get to where we what to go. Here is a story of how lack of persistence cost R.U. Darby untold riches.
During the California gold rush a prospector named R. U. Darby helped his uncle mine a vein of gold that his uncle had discovered. It appeared at first that they had a prosperous find. Yet the vein soon disappeared, and Darby and his uncle searched frantically for the spot where it continued. Finally, they concluded their prospects were hopeless and sold their equipment to a junk dealer. The junk dealer consulted an engineer, and then began mining the shaft again. He quickly discovered the elusive vein and a supply of gold worth millions of dollars--just three feet from where Darby and his uncle had stopped digging.
How close were you to your goal when you finally gave up? Are you like R.U. Darby just three feet away? I think the moral of the story is to never give up. If it’s a goal worth reaching then it’s a goal worth never giving up on. If we all had a never ending type of persistence just imagine all the things we could accomplish. So start using this word “persistence” again, in your vocabulary and your life and be all that you can be! It makes cents to me.
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