Do you know that persistence is one of the most important keys that you will need if you want to be successful?
No matter what you want to accomplish in your life, you must be persistence in it.
Lately I came across an article from the book, Chicken Soup For The Soul. I’m so motivated by the story and I really wish to share it with you here…
It was a bleak, rainy day, and I had no desire to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn’s house. But she had insisted that I come see something at the top of the mountain.
So here I was, reluctantly making the two-hour journey through fog that hung like veils. By the time I saw how thick it was near the summit, I’d gone too far to turn back. Nothing could be worth this, I thought as I inched along the perilous highway.
“I’ll stay for lunch, but I’m heading back down as soon as the fog lifts,” I announced when I arrived.
“But I need you to drive me to the garage to pick up my car,” Carolyn said. “Could we at least do that?”
“How far is it?” I asked.
“About three minutes,” she said. “I’ll drive – I’m used to it.”
After ten minutes on the mountain road, I looked at her anxiously, “I thought you said three minutes.”
She grinned. “This is a detour.”
Turning down a narrow track, we parked the car and got out. We walked along the path that was thick with old pine needles. Huge black-green evergreens towered over us. Gradually the peace and silence of the place began to fill my mind.
Then we turned a corner – and I stopped and gasped in amazement. From the top of the mountain, sloping for several acres across folds and valleys, were rivers of daffodils in radiant bloom. A profusion of colour – from the palest ivory to the deepest lemon to the most vivid salmon – blazed like a carpet before us. It looked as though the sun had tipped over and spilled gold down the mountainside.
At the centre cascaded a waterfall of purple hyacinths. Here and there were coral-coloured tulips. And as if this bonanza was not enough, western bluebirds frolicked over the heads of the daffodils, their magenta breasts and sapphire wings like a flitter of jewels.
A riot of questions filled my mind, Who created such beauty? Why? How?
As we approached the home that stood in the centre of the property, we saw a sign, “Answers to the questions I know you are asking.”
The first answer was: “One woman – two hands, two feet and very little brain.”
The second was: “One at a time.”
The third: “Started in 1958.”
As we drove home, I was so moved by what we had seen I could scarcely speak. “She changed the world,” I finally said, “one bulb at a time. She started almost forty years ago, probably just the beginning of an idea, but she kept at it.”
The wonder of it would not let me go. “Imagine,” I said, “if I’d had a vision and worked at it, just a little bit everyday, what might I have accomplished?”
Carolyn looked at me sideways, smiling. “Start tomorrow,” she said. “Better yet, start today.”
This story has the title “One At A Time” and it is written by Jaroldeen Edwards.
How do you feel? Inspired and motivated?
I don’t know about you, but after I read this story above from the book, I’m feeling so motivated. And the principle taught in this story is so true.
No matter who you are, you can be successful and achieve all your dreams if you persist long enough.
The journey to success starts with one simple step. And it is the step that you take each and everyday that will responsible for the results you will be getting.
The sad news is, most people are lazy and they will never think about their future. Only if you are willing to do the work just for a little each day, over time, all the small actions that you took will accumulate and change your life.
Success is not about getting big results or big achievement, it is about the process of taking one small step at a time. And eventually you will reach your goals and achieve your dreams.
I hope you understand the simple principle in this article today. Let me know what you think about the story above, leave your comments.
