James Kilgarriff’s Weblog

Persistence is key to any form of success or manifestation. We read that the Law of Attraction is about thoughts becoming things in your life. However, just thinking about something will not be enough to make it a reality.

Continuous persistence with your actions will raise the vibration behind your thoughts and so the likelihood of success is increased one hundred fold. First you must have a clear goal or intention and then on a persistent daily basis persistently give attention to your goal and take the actions necessary.

One of the biggest causes of failure is not the creating of the goal or action plan but more the fact that the sustained effort is missing and so many people´s dreams are just dreams in the end.

The development of persistence is really the development of a habit. To quote from Napleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich ..

For those who have cultivated the habit of persistence seem to enjoy insurance against failure. No matter how many times they are defeated, they finally rise up towards the top of the ladder. Sometimes it appears there is a hidden Guide whose duty it is to test men through all sorts of discouraging experiences. Those who pick themsleves up after defeat and keep on trying, arrive and the world cried “Bravo! I knew you could do it!” The hidden guide lets no one enjoy great achievment without passing the persistence test. Those who can´t make it simply do not make the grade. Those who take it are bountifully rewarded for their persistence.

I recall a number of years ago I went through a very painful time in my life emotionally and I decided to learn meditation by attending a Buddhist monastery for instruction. The Abbot of the monastery was highly respected and had been on the path for over 40 years. He inspired me to meditate on a daily basis. Months passed and the emotional pain seemed to stick with me and would not go away. I returned to the monastery and met the Abbot and explained my dilema that things just did not seem to be moving for me even after months of daily meditation.

Now Buddhist teachers don´t really talk that much and he he simply said to me “sustain your practice”. In other words persist even though nothing was happening. I decided to keep going and I had some important breakthroughs and it was thanks to the advise of the Buddhist monk and the quality of personal persistence I broke through.

Persistence is key to success and worth thinking about if you are being challenged right now.