Success is Perseverance

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Webster tells us that perseverance is:
to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement, [or banged shins, broken wrists, strained muscles, sore hands, pure exhaustion, mental numbness, tired babies, running out of tape, running out of boxes, piles of trash and undesirables, pouring rain and no internet]

Ok, so I added the last part…

Can you guess? Yeah, we’re moving; house sitting, actually, for some friends while they are on sabbatical.

Moving is a lot like reaching for success. You are really excited about it at first, and then you begin to understand that it’s going to take some work, work that you have to do even if you don’t want to do it anymore.

Problems crop up and you work through the solutions. [A Mentor of mine once said that you can’t have a problem without a solution, because without a solution it’s not a problem…, I’ll save that for another day.]

What problems are you running into? I lost my biggest help for the move. My oldest son dove out of a tree on the 4th of July and broke his wrist. The solution? His sisters get more exercise! I keep bashing my shins on everything shorter than 24”. The solution? Slow down, anything under the box I’m carrying is a dangerous monster.

How’s your move toward success? Lose your biggest helper? Keep bashing your shins on things that are just under your radar? Find the solution, it’s there. Spread out. Attack the loads in smaller “sister” sized chunks. Slow down and keep your eyes focused to the front and on the box you have in your hands now. Stop looking at all the other boxes; you’ll get to them in turn, one at a time.

Fill the van and drive it to the destination, you’ll need to make several trips.

But, please, don’t forget along the way to periodically, stop and enjoy how much you’ve accomplished so far.

You can do it!
Zack