Persistence leads to success
For a year now I have been working on various online marketing projects and each time there’s a glimmer of hope and things look bright and it looks as if there’s light at the end of the tunnel, something goes wrong – often because of a mistake that I have made as I’m learning and at times due to no fault of my own. Today a hosting company which hosts some of these projects had a major problem and I have lost quite a few hours of work.
I was wondering if there’s a message for me here.
My first reaction was that someone was telling me to stop and do something different.
Then I thought of Edison and all the times he experimented before his success with the light bulb.
I thought the test of character is in exactly these times when things go wrong. The message is to persist – to learn from mistakes (whether self inflicted or acts of God – like my current challenges).
I remembered the story of a gold miner who dug and dug and dug without finding the vein of gold. So he sold his claim and the next miner found one of the largest gold veins after digging the last four feet.
The challenge is that there are times when there is no gold in the mine at all.
At those times persistence may be tantamount to folly. If only one would know.
However, more people have given up way too soon than people persisting in dreams of fools gold.
As they say success comes from experience and experience comes from mistakes and (this is very important) learning from those mistakes.
So, so long as you are learning from your mistakes persist and learn more for then success is surely around the corner.
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After I wrote the above today December 13, 2009 I found the following old post from a now defunct blog. As I’m finding the old stuff I’m posting them in appropriate spots in my current blogs. This seems to be the right spot to add the following:
Persist
Some of you may have noticed that the look of this blog has changed. I had to go in and add some stuff to the php code. Now php is a programming language that I have never used before and also I am used to compiled procedural languages (I used to be a top embedded systems software engineer – anyone need an assembly language programmer???), and php is an interpreted scripting language as far as I know.
What I am saying is that I didn’t have a clue what I was doing, but I just blindly plodded on trying this and that. It is true that having been a software engineer I did have some intuitive clues. In the middle of my work the user interface collapsed. As I was doing the testing (don’t do this at home or anywhere else in reality) I noticed that the blog was a total mess and there was at least one visitor at the time.
I quickly undid what I had done and added each new element one at a time until the system came back up the way I wanted it. I will spend more time later on to improve the site and soon will have audio and video and perhaps other stuff like guest book and surveys added. Please come back here often and preferably subscribe to an RSS feed of the blog.
The point is take risks. Fall flat on face. Laugh at yourself lovingly and persist. If you do that, you will get there.
In fact since I wrote the above I did learn some php programming and now I can make minor changes to the blog programming without any problem.
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