The Most Important Trait to be successful is? Perseverance!!
The greatest skill is Just doing the work, Working when you are high or low, working when you are right or wrong, working when you get success or failure.
What is Perseverance?
Once we start working on anything, we start facing challenges, difficulties and hurdles. In such a situation we would either leave it or be persistent, if we leave it at this point not only failure will be the achieved but losing will become a habit.
In case we decide to be persistent with new learning and keep on working and keep on coming up the learning curve, ultimately we would be at a position where success would arrive with all its derivatives.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Some perquisites of being persistent-
Dependable- Someone who shows perseverance is more dependable than the others, people will know and believe you that you are not going to quit, no matter how hard it gets. You will fight and get a way out.
Build's Confidence- Perseverance gives you a reasons to belief in yourself . You start taking full ownership of the goals you have set to achieve. You perceive to control your own fate, which is the biggest bottleneck in way of success.
Knowing unknown-Persistence and tenacity is what makes individual or any business successful. Temperament or Character is built during the repeated attempts at achieving a goal. Not the first try. The great famous story which we all have read or heard about being persistent "the rabbit and the tortoise".
How to be a Persistent Person
We all have the power to change and give direction to our lives at any point of time, it just needs to be decided once. To follow perseverance we can start practicing few things in our daily life.
Goal Setting- Set a long term goal, break it into modular short term goals and start achieving. This would not be a one time task but a habit which would become an approach of solving any problem. Never forget to reward yourself on each achievement.
Think Long Term learn and be Positive- Once you have set goal, correlate the modular approach with long term thinking and start working toward it. as i earlier mentioned that it might take few failures before being successful, so be positive and persistent.
Read read and read- Read motivational books, quotes, biographies of people who have gone through difficult times in their life but eventually achieved what they wanted to. This keeps the moral high and a very effective booster in low times.
Sacrifice- It is well said "nothing worth achieving is easy" or "no free lunches". Ultimately to achieve something worthy one has to make lot of sacrifices may that be managing your time/family/financials etc.
Adaptability- We and our work is depended on lot of external factors, A well laid plan should have scope for incorporating changes to facilitate achieving final goal without affecting the timelines.
To Sum up i would say Commitment to one's goal would enhances it’s value and intensifies the motivation level. The road to success is not easy and it never happens overnight, it takes lot of hard work, time and perseverance to lead to success.