Self Help & Personal Growth

Getting Organized - Perseverance

Our daily life, with its incidents, its joys, its cares, and its duties, that are renewed every morning, is a precious mine of wealth, in which each one of us can dig with the certainty of always discovering something of interest.

Great upheavals occur very rarely; men and women of genius are few and far between. Therefore, we must not think of waiting for some important event to occur, or for some sudden inspiration to visit us, before we decide to make our resolutions.

In our daily lives such occasions will be replaced easily enough by the minute observation on our part of seemingly insignificant details, that we must take pains to relate--in so far as we are able--to the subject that occupies our minds.

The smallest incident that will serve to introduce into it some additional element, will provide it with a new strength, and will give it one more opportunity of enduring and of obtaining ultimate success.

Stone by stone the most imposing buildings are erected, so also is the humblest cottage.

Therefore, the aim of every one who wishes to acquire the gift of perseverance should be not to let a single day pass by without contributing a stone to add to the projected edifice.

They will soon begin to see it rising, solid and enduring, above the crumbling monuments of superficiality, of laziness, and of want of purpose.