Persistence: Napoleon Hill's Most Powerful Think and Grow Rich Principle

All right, welcome back to The Daily Mastermind, George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. How's your week going so far? I hope it's going amazing, and I'm glad you're here with me today, especially if this is your first time listening. I hope that you will go back and check out the beginning of our Think and Grow Rich series on these 13 timeless principles. But today I want to be honest with you. I want to be real with you. And I hope that's okay. I want to talk to you a little bit about your business and your life because your business doesn't need another idea. Your life doesn't need another vision board. What it needs, what you need, is to just keep going when it's hard and to stay consistent and persistent because talent doesn't win. Strategy doesn't win. Even discipline doesn't win if it's not repeated. The real separator in success is one word, persistence. Napoleon Hill talks about persistence by saying persistence is to the character of a man as carbon is to steel. So if you're tired, if you're stuck, if you're doubting or close to giving up, you're not alone. I just want to tell you that you're not alone. But this is the episode that you can't afford to skip because as Calvin Coolidge said, nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts, and persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Because the thing is, is for anything in life to work, it requires persistence. And Napoleon Hill talks about this hidden gem lets no one enjoy great achievement without passing the persistence test. So today I want to talk to you about persistence. Now we've already talked about desire and we've talked about faith and auto and specialized knowledge imagination and organized planning And I really just even decisions right last week or yesterday on decisions but I really just feel that persistence is the difference maker It that thing that separates people that want it from people that really crave it. You know, the people that say they want it and the people that do it, the people that want it bad enough. So in Thinking Grow Rich, Hill defines persistence as the sustained effort necessary to induce faith and transform desire into financial equivalent. So it's where you can now induce your faith and transform your desire into its financial equivalent. And he really makes this clear. He says, those who cultivate the habit of persistence appear to enjoy insurance against failure. Think about that statement. I love that statement. If you have that habit of persistence, and it is a habit you've got to cultivate, these people enjoy insurance against failure. It's like the more you persist, the less likely you are to fail. Why? Because success rarely comes on the first try anyway or the fifth or even the 15th. Every millionaire, creator, entrepreneur that you admire, I mean I could give you a ton of examples. Oprah, Tom Bilyeu, J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk, they all had seasons of rejection. They had resistance, they had ridicule, they had, you know, people that were trolling them, but they had something most people don't. They had grit. They had persistence, and that's what this simple principle is all about. As simple as it is, it's tough to do, but it's mental endurance. the willingness to keep swinging when nothing seems to be working. It's not about consistently going when things are working. It's about, it's the reason I developed the prosperity pillars and the pillar number three, which is I act in spite of my mood. Because the successful people in life, they do the work even though they don't feel like doing it. Nobody feels like getting up in the morning and going to the gym. Nobody feels like going and doing that last rep. Nobody feels like doing stuff when they're tired, but the successful people will prevail and persistence will happen So let take this a little home for you Maybe you launched your offer and you didn get a response you hoped for Maybe you posted on social media for months and months and you still totally invisible Nobody even sees you. Maybe you've tried mindset work, maybe team building, scaling, you still feel stuck. Maybe you've been living personal development your whole life. Maybe you're dealing with something right now and it's the roller coaster of ups and downs. Well, here's the thing. You're not broken. you're just in this resistance phase, that valley between desire and results. And you got to ask yourself what you're going to do about it. You know, he'll even warn that temporary defeat is part of the process. You actually need to go through defeat, not failure, not failure, but defeat. Failure only happens when you give up. But how you respond to those moments of defeat, they define your future. So, you know, you think about David Goggins, the Navy SEAL that I talk about often on his endurance and his motto, when you think you're done, remember me saying this? When you think you're done, you're only at 40%, because most human beings kind of quit at 40%. And, you know, this idea of grit and passion sustained through persistence and applied towards long-term goals. That's what separates someone who dreams from the people that do it. And so you've got to turn your struggle into stamina. You've got to trade your setback into a setup for a comeback. And the way you do this is you identify the sticking point. You know, what's that area in your life or business that, you know, you've slowed down or you've thought about quitting? because we all think about it. It's not something you have to feel guilt over. But what's that sticking point, the thing that kind of holds you back? Now, you have to learn to reframe that resistance. You've got to reframe it. You've got to ask, what is this setback trying to teach me? How is building this or going through this building my character? And how can I reevaluate it? How do I change my philosophy about it? And then create a seven-day persistence plan. Pick one action that you can do every single day in that area until you get past it, even if it's small. The goal, remember, the goal is consistency over intensity. People start out with all this intensity and then they don persist And here a thought for you to for you to consider this is kind of like a little extra stack your persistence with accountability share your plan or what it is you're going to accomplish or the thing that you need to push through create some accountability that's like the secret weapon in helping you to be persistent even when you don't feel like it because you feel like you got this accountability partner but here's what I want you to take away from this episode on persistence. There's no substitute for persistence. Hill says it cannot be supplanted by any other quality. Your goals are still possible no matter where you are in life. Your momentum can return. Momentum's a funny thing. You can get it back when you least suspect it. Your success, you know, might be one week, one pitch, or even just one post away. With the way the algorithms are working in social media right now, you might be literally one post away from getting that momentum back, but you're not going to know if you stop. So, you know, it's like Les Brown. I quote him a lot because he spoke for me many years, but he just, he always used to say, it's not over until I win. It's not over until you win. You got to keep going. You got to outlast the resistance. You got to think of it as a game because the dream doesn't die when you feel tired. It only dies when you stop trying. And so that's the message I want to leave with you today. I hope that that is something that you will take to heart. This habit of persistence and cultivating persistence is such a key. Act in spite of your mood. Now, tomorrow we're going to talk about the power of the mastermind, obviously one of my favorite topics. So I hope you joined us in the previous episodes. I hope you'll join us for the following. We got a few more left to go. 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