Path to mastery.. the singular differentiator.

This post will sound all too familiar, and even so repetitive – who does not preach about being persistent?

Yet, I think it’s such an important quality, a straight gear shift to mode-success or happiness in the journey of our lives.

Persistence could communicate different meanings to different people, depending upon how it is interpreted, imaged and communicated – but by far it is the most singular differentiator and determinant for success in any endeavor. Just pick up any literature in goals and success – a Brian Tracy, Robin Sharma, Tony Robbins or a Brian Mayne – and be sure that this is mentioned.

And persistence is not about those huge and impossible tasks which we need to sweat it out to do. It is just having the mental strength and ability to ‘persist’ in doing that simple task that would lead to some accomplishment, set as a goal in one’s life.

To be just able to spend 30 minutes a day, consistently, in developing or nurturing a life skill, would lead to an achievement that would be still be great and big enough to make a life difference. This could be hard exercising if one looks at a physical goal, writing 2 pages a day if you aspire to be a writer, and say spending 30 minutes uninterrupted with your spouse and kids – a family goal.

While it might appear to be a small thing at the outset, the key challenge here would be consistency – doing it everyday sans a break, and at the same time, and most important, in a ‘positive mental frame’.

To get ahead in all personal endeavors, one step a day, the baby steps are in the will to be persistent – and those baby steps will make all the difference – its always said consistency of a task is the pathway to mastery in it!

Creating new habits that win for life is all about inculcating persistence, and anyone who had created that habit will speak volumes on how it is the most challenging to persist. Just try to commit yourself to a new habit –even as trivial as waking up 30 minutes early everyday – the mental challenge and the accompanying physical challenge will be immense. You will need the power of the mind and a die-hard commitment – a communiqué to the subconscious – to ensure that this happens.

The easier side in this is – you need to stretch you only for 21 days and then it becomes natural – a habit that stays with you for life – and most importantly facilitates accomplishment in whatever life area sought…..

To make persistence a winning habit, I would urge – please, please strive to stretch your mind that extra bit to do something everyday sometime – that something which would be a key life skill or a winning quality in professional or personal life…… anything you think is worth doing and trying……..

Persist. Persist. Create winning habits. One, at a time. Enjoy life.