Any one who has ever achieved some level of success, whether in their personal lives or in their chosen careers and businesses, will tell you that one of the things that put them where they are right now is persistence – the doggedness to keep at it until they get what they were aiming for.

It doesn’t matter how many times you fall, what matters is that you get up each time you do.  Consider the diligence of the ants who, despite their size, manage to carry heavy loads just so they can experience abundance especially on rainy days.  Imagine what people can achieve if only they stay focused on their goals no matter how heavy the obstacles.

The Formula for Success

There is no foolproof formula for anything, much less success.  However, there is a foolproof way of achieving success, and that is to persevere and be consistent in your perseverance.  True, there will be times when you may feel that you’re just about ready to give up on your dreams, especially if you’ve reached your golden years without ever having seen your dreams come into fruition.

But one must remember that it is when you are just about ready to throw in the towel that the tide will turn and you will see the rewards of your labor.  They may not come in the exact package that you imagined, but rest assured that no hard work is left unappreciated and unrewarded for long.  Sooner or later, you will see the fruits of your labor.

The Greatest Inventors of Our Times

Consider Edison who discovered more than a hundred ways how not to light a bulb before getting it right or Einstein who discovered all the wrong formulas before discovering that E=mc².

No successful venture ever succeeded at the first try.  If you read about all the greatest minds and inventors from the time of our forefathers to the present, you will read about how many times they had their hopes crashed and hearts broken before finally coming up with the right formula for their version of success.

In the end, what you may call success is actually the number of times you failed where each time brought you closer to the fulfillment of your dreams.  Remember that failures are only such if you don’t learn from them.  But if you use each one as another rung on the ladder of success, then you have already achieved half of your goal.