Life is full of uncertainty; all you need to do is to find a way on how to live with it. There are moments when everything seems to be going very well but all of the sudden, everything could go bizarre, you could lose your job, lose your friend, family, spouse or your business. Mishap does approach with prior intimation but life demands from us the persistence to endure, the perseverance to bear, the patience with endurance, diligence to go on and to live to succeed. But how can we succeed with all these difficulties? What do I need to have? With patience, endurance and perseverance you will achieve your goal or come back from a terrific tragedy.
We are living in an era where instant ratification is the fuel of our brain, we are so used to getting immediate results, but we forget to be patient, patience is the most cardinal thing in life, what we want to achieve might not always happen at our own juncture, things in life have their own time, whether friendship, love, a job, deep connection with your partner or having a successful business, these important things we wish to have might not come at our own time. The most painful part of life is that, life will never shimmy to our tune, so it will hit us, break us down, make us victims but all we need to have is patience. Lack of patience may lead to selection of any available idea even if it may lead to failure. Patience is surest wait, it shows maturity , impatience in life will likely to let you face hall of hell, if you are impatience in relationship ,you will end up leaving the one who loves you truly and end up marrying the one who might make your life miserable. Patience is not easy, especially if people you started with are prevailing in their life, the hard part is when those who started after you are faring well than you, that’s why someone has to endure the hardship as he or she is waiting.
Patience with endurance is a key drive to our success, we need endurance because some things in life require our whole life to finally achieve them, and this means that we have to endure the pain and hardship we encounter as we pursue our goals. Without endurance you cannot have true happiness, true success or achievement, endurance makes us to appraise our past, learn from our catastrophe. Another significance of endurance is that, it justifies your patience, patience without quality is nothing, we must find a reason for waiting, it is not about how long we wait but the quality of our waiting, if we know the value of our outcome, we will keep on waiting. Endurance brings in a true reason for your patience, you can endure the pain of not having any money at home because you spent it on your children’s school fees, you will endure the pain because you know the value of education and what will come out of it. Some educated people lack endurance, they rely on what they have achieved on paper than in reality, for example; you can ask un educated person to wait outside your office if you are busy, the person will wait for you , he or she will endure the hardship of standing out without any meal until he or she is attended to, now try that to a very educated person, tell him to wait outside, for two hours, he or she will fail to endure because he or she considers him/herself valuable .
Perseverance is as vital as endurance and patience. Perseverance is the steadfast pursuit of an aim, especially in the face of difficulty or obstacles. It is all about having a goal and desire to compete no matter what gets into your way, the strength to your vision is vital, it gives you power to adapt to the change you might encounter . Perseverance also needs trust, trust yourself and others as well, only seek positive people, perseverance is nothing without resilience to weather change in your way. Always expect critics even if you are sure that your content is brilliant, be ready to rise from ashes and always remember that WISDOM IS HUMILITY.
The list below shows some of the most famous people of the world who faced obstacles in their lives, but through patience, endurance and perseverance they ended up succeeding.
- OPRAH WINFREY- She was demoted from her job as a news Anchor because she wasn’t fit for television, but now she is the host of a multi- award winning talk show in the world and the most influential woman in the world.
- WALT DISNEY- He was fired from a newspaper for lacking imagination and having no original ideas, but now he is a creator of Mickey Mouse.
- HAKAINDE HICHILEMA- Lost 5 general elections in Zambia, but now he is the 7th President of Zambia.
- LEO MESSI- At the age of 11, he was cut from his team after being diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency which made him smaller in stature than most of kids , but now he is the best player of the world.
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN- His fiancé died, failed in business, had a nervous breakdown and was defeated in 8 elections but he became the 16th president of the United States.
- DR. SEUSS- His book was rejected by 27 publishers, but now he is the bestselling children’s Author in history.
All I can say is, “If you have never failed, you have never tried anything new” have patience, keep on enduring and have perseverance.