Perseverance - Day 5

“Please hire me for this job,” I said to the publisher of the daily newspaper.“

I can’t. You don’t have a degree,” he said.I went back weekly for months. Finally one day he said yes. Sometimes it’s not the person with the most talent who succeeds. It’s the person who keeps showing up.

Action: After I wrote my first book, I kept a huge cardboard carton of all the mistakes, trials and errors, and pages I didn’t use in the completed manuscript. By the time we become successful, we’ve done a thing for years—whether it’s recovery, writing, practicing our values, or anything else. Successful people make a thing look easy and effortless. Remind yourself and others how hard success really is.“My son had a learning disability,” his father said. “When he asked whether he should go to college, I said yes, he’d just have to work harder than most everyone else. He did. He just got his Ph.D.”When you can’t make the obstacles go away, use them as leverage to push against.

From the book: 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact