The opposite of perseverance is procrastination.
Perseverance means you never quit.
Procrastination usually means
you never get started.
Although I consider the inability to finish something
to be a form of procrastination.
Ask people why they procrastinate
and you'll often hear something like this.
"I'm a perfection."
"Everything has to be just right
before I can get down to work."
"no distractions"
"not too much noise"
"no telephone calls interrupting me."
"And of course I have to be feeling well physically too."
"I can't work when I have a headache."
The other end of procrastination
being unable to finish also has a perfectionist explanation.
"I'm just never satisfied."
I'm my own harshest critic
That's just the way I am.
And I'll probably never change
Excuses sound best to the people that's making them up.
You got every excuse in the world.
That's why you ain't moving,
that's why ain't nothing change and nothing will change
We are being raised in a generation of people
that come up with every excuse in the book
as to why they are not winning.
You have that as a choice.
You actually do.
You don't wake up in the morning
and negativity, dysfunction, problems and issues
just randomly pop up.
These are the people that you have decided to
include in your life
so the outcome of your day, your hour, your minutes,
your week, your month and your year
is always draining, always dysfunctional
and always crazy
because these are the type of people
you've decided to include in your day to day life.
And there are some of you, you know what you want,
but you are not
personally willing to do the work it takes to get it.
What you're trying to do
is do what you've done on this level
and get the next level.
You're like, I'm getting up every day,
I'm lifting weights.
I'm eating right
and I'm not getting any opportunities.
It might require getting up
and working out 3 and a half,
it might require you saying no to your friends,
it might require you changing your diet,
it might require you moving to another city.
Whatever it takes, you gotta be willing to do it,
and you keep saying
you're not there because of something else,
because it's easier to blame somebody else.
And there are those of you,
you were this close,
but you compromised.
You let your feelings get the best of you.
And you let a little pain
stop you from your dream,
girl, you were there.
You were running your business,
you were there.
I didn't quit
'cause people didn't understand,
I worked harder
when people didn't support me.
You better grind
because if you don't,
you'll be stuck
at that adversity for the rest of your life.
You grown.
You got ideas,
you got talent,
you got gifts,
stop shrinking down,
stop minimizing yourself.
Take the risk on you.
You owe you.
No more
excuses.
No more excuses. No more "I'll start tomorrow".
No more "Just this once".
No more accepting the shortfalls of my own will.
No more taking the easy road.
No more waiting for the perfect moment.
And no more indecision
and no more lies.
No more weakness.
Now is the time for strength.
And through strength
and through will
and through unwavering discipline,
I will become who I want to be.