If work from home business success was easy to accomplish,
everybody would be doing it. With so many folks pursuing
the same things since the dawn of intelligent life, you'd
think we'd have it figured out by now.
We do have it narrowed down - work from home business
success is a combination of several factors, not the least
of which sometimes includes being in the right place at the
right time. But no matter what combination of attributes
you favor, one thing is nearly always a part of the work
from home business success recipe: persistence.
Stories abound about famous books that were rejected
countless times before finding success (think Dr. Seuss and
Harry Potter). About actors and artists who labor in
anonymity for decades before being "discovered." About
businesses that barely survived the hard times until the
market discovered them.
While talent and quality and even a little luck may enter
the equation, pretty much each and every work from home
business success story falls back on persistence as the
catalyst that made it happen.
In his classic "Think and Grow Rich," Napoleon Hill devoted
an entire chapter to the subject. Says Hill, "There may be
no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the
quality is to your character what carbon is to steel."
Hill researched the most successful entrepreneurs in modern
history, men such as Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, and
while many were brilliant, many others were unremarkable.
Hill found that the common ground among those who have
achieved great things in business is the attribute of
persistence.
The power of persistence is available to everyone. It's
easy to complain about our bad breaks, our lack of capital,
being late to market, tough competition, etc., but the
choice of whether to be persistent or not is immune to
becoming an excuse for failure.
The truth is clear: if we are to be successful, we must be
persistent. And if we fail, it is probably because we were
otherwise.
Some believe that persistence is the product of willpower.
But this is not true. More often a lack of persistence
connects to a weak goal rather than a weak will.
Goals are easily abandoned when price exceeds vision. Most
work from home entrepreneurs start strong with great will
power, but when the going gets tough they are discouraged
because their passion for the goal wasn't strong enough to
fuel their persistence.
It is the wise business person who understands the
difference between will power and the power of persistence,
and is able to apply both qualities when and where
required. Put this saying on your wall: "Find something
worth dying for, and then live for it." Persistence is the
very essence of this approach.
An example of putting this all together was the first two
men to climb Mt. Everest in 1953. Until then it had been an
elusive goal, despite the passion of those who had tried
and failed. But Sir Edmund Hillary and his guide, Tenzing
Norguary, achieved where others had failed - included two
failed attempts themselves - because of the combination of
persistence and passion.
Others failed not because they faced greater obstacles or
had lesser skills, but because their level of persistence
did not match their level of passion. Only until Hillary
and Norguary brought extraordinary levels of both to the
task was the mountain conquered.
Persistence is a key element of your business plan. These
four simple steps will help you make it a life skill:
1. Visualize your goal: Bring passion to the pursuit of
your dream, and then match that passion with an
intellectually-sound commitment that results in the level
of persistence required to get there.
2. Make a plan: Persistence and action are synonymous, so
get clear on the steps you must take to move forward.
3. Commit: Make an irrevocable contract with yourself to
reach your goal.
4. Form a mastermind group: Like-minded support is part of
an enlightened plan. Obstacles will come, and the power of
others who share your vision will give your level of
persistence a shot in the arm.
Make the choice to be persistent today. Commit to making
your own luck and surviving the toughest of obstacles. In
the end, the one standing will be the one with the highest
level of persistence. Be one of those people that work from
home business success story. Be persistent.
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