Never underestimate power of persistence!

If you persist you really cannot fail.

While you may fail many times along way, you have not truly failed until you accept failure. However, if you are truly persistent, failure is a clear indication you are getting closer to success.

How can that be?

Because with each failure comes very valuable knowledge. The knowledge of what DOESN'T work, (this is basic premise of testing).

Acknowledge failure brings you a step closer to success and you will never look at it same way again.

Do you have a light in your house? Of course you do. Do have a light in your car? Of course you do. Do you see them in street, in shops, airports, hospitals, restaurants, etc, etc? Yes, they are everywhere.

Well, electric light was borne from one man's irresistible persistence to invent what many said was impossible.

It wasn't easy, thousands of times he failed....thousands!! How many people make it past 3 failures? Most give up after only one. Plenty never even try.

But Thomas A. Edison, creator of incandescent light, took each of those failures in his stride.

With knowledge of what DOESN'T work, each failure took him a step closer to changing entire world!

We only want to get rich. A much, much easier task.

If persistence can change world, imagine what it can do for you.

Persistence can be developed through 4 simple steps.

Are you ready?

Pay close attention, these are life skills you should embrace deep within your psyche...practice them whenever you want to rise above your present dilemma...teach them to your children.

The 4 Steps to Developing Persistence

Step 1 Have a definite goal fueled by a burning desire to achieve it.

Step 2 Have a definite plan and continually work at it.

Step 3 Close your mind against all negativity. Do not think about or be discouraged by negative comments that may come from family, friends and acquaintances.

Step 4 Form a friendship with one or more people who will encourage you to follow through with your plan and achieve your goals.

There my friend is kind of thing we should be taught in schools. How different might your life be if you embraced that as a child.

Personally, I was never taught to persist. Whenever going got tough I quit.

The solution, for Julie, photographer, is in thinking differently. In thinking what if I use this lens. Will different lens bring what is out of focus in focus? What if I approach subject from this angle? What if I slow speed? Each time she uses her knowledge of photography and her camera to build on what is possible. To look outside her box.

Sukekawa is also interested in what is out of focus. She is one of Japan’s most successful inventors. But it hasn’t always been like that. In fact, she didn’t start inventing until she was 57 years old.

Sukekawa was a physical education teacher at a High School in Japan. Then at 57 years of age she suffered from a ‘serious medical problem’ that could only be treated in Tokyo. So she and her husband decided that in order for her to receive medical treatment she needed she had to resign from her job and they would both move to Tokyo.