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🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In today’s quick-fix world, many people simply give up when they don’t instantly get what they want. In this episode, Brian explains why real success requires perseverance and shares his top tips for persisting when the going gets tough.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· The barriers to perseverance.
· The components of perseverance.
· Inspiring stories of perseverance.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
S2E159 All It Takes Is a Goal with Jon Acuff
S2E158 How to be a Goal Getter
S1E262 The Power of a Made-Up Mind
The 10 Ancient Scrolls for Success from “The Greatest Salesman in the World” by Og Mandino
“Get in the Game,” by Cal Ripkin
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“The good life doesn't happen without perseverance.” – Brian Buffini
“When you have a picture of where you want to go, then you can have this passion to persevere.” – Brian Buffini
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller
“Perseverance is one of the key ingredients to success.” – Brian Buffini
“I will persist until I succeed.” – Og Mandino
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0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life, the Podcast for Entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing |
0:07.7 | yourself and your business. |
0:09.7 | Here's your host, founder of America's largest business coaching company, Brian the Feeney. |
0:17.0 | Well, the top of the morning to you, and, or should I say, Aloha. This will be the first of the broadcasts I'm doing from my home in Hawaii. |
0:26.0 | And I figured if I'm going to talk about the good life, |
0:30.0 | I should do it from one of the places that is a ingredient for making my life as good as it is. |
0:37.0 | So welcome to the program. Today we're going to talk about the power of perseverance. |
0:43.7 | And very excited for you. |
0:46.2 | We all know that perseverance is important. |
0:48.3 | It doesn't always sound sexy or fun. |
0:50.8 | But hopefully we can give you a few thoughts today that might make it more attainable and |
0:56.2 | understand that if you keep fighting bite and scratch it and clon on the path you're on, |
1:01.7 | more than likely you're going to prevail. |
1:04.0 | Cambridge English Dictionary defines perseverance |
1:07.0 | as the continued effort to do or achieve something |
1:12.0 | even when it's difficult or takes a long time. |
1:15.0 | Now I would say that's fairly counter cultural to our world we live in today. |
1:21.0 | Difficult, requires a lot of effort and takes a long time. Nothing about that screams |
1:28.8 | Tik-Tok. But that's where we're at and that's what all success looks like. |
1:34.0 | That continued effort to do or achieve something, even when it's difficult to take a long time. |
1:40.0 | That's what it takes to succeed. |
1:42.0 | It's like my mentor Jim Rohn said, That's what it takes to succeed. |
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