STEP SEVEN: NEVER GIVE UP
Resolve in advance that you will never give quit once you have started towards your goal. No matter how many setbacks or obstacles you experience, make the decision that you will keep on picking yourself up and persisting until you eventually succeed.
By deciding in advance that you will persist, no matter what the difficulty, you give yourself a psychological edge. When the difficulties do arise, you will be mentally prepared to plow through them rather than quitting. Your willingness and ability to persist are what will eventually guarantee your success.
THE POWER OF COMMITMENT
One of my favorite quotations is from the mountain climber Charles Murray.
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is an elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment that one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that what would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforseen incidences and meetings and material assistance that no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
He finishes off his statement with these words from Goethe:
Are you in earnest? Seek this very little minute,
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage and the mind grows heated.
Begin and then the task will be completed.
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