I suggest that you set aside at least one half hour of study per day. One hour is better but you might just want to begin with a half an hour until habit is formed. Make it something sacred and don't neglect it for anything but most serious of reasons. You will soon reach a point where you know a great deal more than you need to know when giving a speech. This increases your self confidence and really helps you when someone from audience asks you a question that you have to answer extemporaneously. Your comfort with answering questions will impress and leave people believing that presumption they had about you being an expert was correct. Your reputation as an knowledgeable speaker begins to grow and so does your career.

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Mike Moore is an international speaker/humorist whose articles and cartoons have appeared in publications throughout Canada and the United States

2. Costs and benefits: To wisely persevere, you need to see costs and benefits of what you are doing. If moving to Hollywood to become a star is going to cost you your business or family life, you have to see that clearly before you decide. An honest and good decision requires honest and good information.

3. Motivation: Once you've made a decision, and you're sure you made it for right reasons, you have to motivate yourself. In fact, perseverance requires that you regularly re-motivate yourself. Write goals down, do daily affirmations, and whatever else you have to do.

Habit is most powerful secret of success. Practice watching yourself to make self-awareness a habit. Practice analyzing costs and benefits objectively, and practice motivating yourself. By way, there are many good motivation techniques, so if what you're doing doesn't work - go read up on them and try something else. That's perseverance.