Episode 18 - Part 1: 3 Ps in driving success: Patience, Perseverance, Persistence

3 Ps in driving success: Patience, Perseverance, Persistence

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Patience.

Definition: able to accept or tolerate delays, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious. As the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.

"Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet" - Aristotle

Be patient

Go through all the steps of research, development and marketing. But just because you know better than to fall for the slick, get-rich-quick scams.

This is hard. You may be unemployed and going into business just because you can't find work. You need the money and it's tempting to rush the process. Keep your feelings and motivations in mind and monitor yourself.

The best way to speed up the process is to use your strengths and/or enter a market you already know thoroughly because you are part of it. Make a product you already know very well how to make that matches the market.

Remember, no matter how well you've done your job, significant results are unlikely to come quickly. You may start receiving income right away, but it probably won't be huge. (Unless, of course, you are already well-known or get interviewed on Oprah.) Be patient, in most instances overnight success takes a while.

Patience is absolutely necessary if you want to achieve anything. Almost nothing in life is instant, unless you go out and win the lottery. You have to know that the best things in life are worth working hard and waiting for. Great achievements often take years to attain. And so you also must need to have patience. Any great goal you have in life likely requires a long period of sustained effort. If you lack patience, you’ll likely burn out and give up before you reach the promised land. Don’t give up!

"The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime." -Croft M. Pentz

tempering your ego, and reducing an over inflated sense of importance. Ego tends to heighten the all about me syndrome. So when things are not going our way, we tend to become irritable, lose patience and want it now! That used to be me. Then, by realising that I wasn’t the most important item in the lives of others, my awareness kicked in, as did my empathy. I do expect others to find their way to doing so. With more patience, our personal growth becomes a smoother journey. One way to reduce our impatience is to lower our expectations. That way, almost any response, or no response becomes more acceptable.

"A moment of Patience in a moment of Anger saves a thousand moments of Regret." - Ali Ibn Abu Talib