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This week, will be a way less controversial topic than last weeks installment of Get Your Shit Together Thursday. We will be focusing on persistence, and how it is best applied.
We all can agree that life is not easy, and it will never be. Life will not be fair, and there is no intention for it to be fair. Out of those who are successful at what they do in life, alot of them had a very high failure rate until they got to where they are today.
You ask me “They failed many times?” Absolutely!!! The problem is that in the public eye, the failures are not really mentioned or brought forth. A person’s future success is not going to thrive off of past failures, so why should they be mentioned???
Instead, for the most successful person that is out there, persistance is the key to overstepping the failures and looking to slightly change their pitch or methods of doing business. Believe it or not, it’s these constant reinventing and revising our methods to madness through learning from our failures, and getting back up to try again.
A very good handful of case studies of persistence I could recommend:
1. Former Virginia governor Mark R. Warner, was a pioneer businessman well before his political career. Governor Warner happened to fail at a few different business ventures. At the discouragement of his family, Governor Warner, which had failed his first business at 6 weeks, his second business at 3 months, had on his third try to unturn a four leaf clover, in the form of Cellular Phone franchise licenses. With his obtained knowledge, Governor Warner invested in a cellular breakthrough, which eventually became NEXTEL. His adventures netted his in the neighborhood of $200 Million!
2. Chris Gardner was an assistant to Doctors, and was a medical device salesperson for a San Franciscan based company named CMS. Chris Gardner had a stronger than thou will, being he went through abuse from both parents, and issues with family.
One day, Chris Gardner sees a shiny red Ferrari 308 QV while leaving the hospital after a sales call. Asks the guy how he got the Ferrari. The guy replies and says that he is a stockbroker. The rest is history. Persistence through the tough times, getting jailed for tax issues, kicked out of his house for non payment of rent, and just having that hungrier than heck desire to win really shows that someone can come out of the worst and be great!
Chris Gardner’s biopic is the Pursuit of Happyness, which Chris’ role is played by Will Smith. Will Smith did a stellar performance, and for those who need inspiration, WATCH IT!
Both Chris and Mark have proved to us, time and time again, that persistence pays off! No matter how many times you fuck up, there will be a time where everything pays off and you will be hopefully laughing at your current situation.
Kick ass and Keep your chin up!!!
Remember: Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!!!
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