If you don’t, your Sizzle of Desire will fizzle down to nothing. You have to eat it, sleep it, walk it, talk it, and concentrate on it until it becomes a red-hot flaming, burning, obsessional desire that will eventually mow down all of the opposition you will face throughout each day. An arsonist sets fires.Įvery morning when you wake up you have to re-light and re-build the intensity of your fire of desire. They will give you all kinds of reasons why your idea or goal won’t work and tell you to give it up, forget it, or tell you ‘You can’t do it’. There are many “firemen” in life that will come along and try to put your fire of desire out. You win, because you refuse to become discouraged by your defeats. Persistence means taking pains to overcome every obstacle, to do all that is necessary to reach your goals. It’s the ability to face defeat repeatedly without giving up-to push on even in the face of great difficulty or danger. Persistence is the power to hold on in spite of everything – to endure. Quitters never win and winners never quit. There will be times when everything in you will tell you to quit, to stop trying – but if you hang in there, eventually, you will – you must – succeed. Thomas Edison actually failed over 9,999 times before he perfected the incandescent light bulb, and over 5,000 times before he perfected the world’s first phonograph record player. Jack London was rejected over 600 times before he finally sold his first piece of writing. A person with a definite major purpose never gives up – no matter how long and tough the road is instead, they become more determined. There Are Many Starters In Life, But Very Few Finishers – When The Going Gets Tough They Quit. Be Willing To Stake Your Entire Existence On Achieving Itĭon’t Quit. It has to be something you want so bad that you think about it all of the time.Ģ. If you don’t currently have what you feel is a definite major purpose, then have a definite major purpose to find your definite major purpose. Thomas Edison’s was the incandescent light bulb.
Doctor Jonas Salk’s was to find the cure and end for polio. Martin Luther King’s was equality and the end of oppression for black people. Mahatma Gandhi’s definite major purpose was to win independence for India from their British rulers. It has to be the most important thing in your life. What is the most important thing you would like to accomplish in your lifetime? Try to define it in one paragraph, even if you have to keep rewriting it a hundred times until it gets as clear as possible. We are all on pause and wondering when we can get on with our lives … and in fact, what will we do with that life? Are you sitting comfortably? 7.20, wide awake, showered, coffee with three sugars and absolutely nothing to do except write to all of you. So who messed up? God? Nature? Everyone on the planet’s mum?Īnyway, I’m here now. Yet we are told we aren’t supposed to eat it. Isn’t that pretty strange? Every human I have ever met likes sugar. I reversed the action, which for anyone else reading this who suffers from OCD, will know at once this was nightmarish at that time of the morning.Įating sugar is not conducive to successful life strategies but it is what the brain tells us to do. I had no recollection of a dream involving rotating clockwise. Is there a way of reversing this and unremembering stuff? I need a different guru for that.Īnyway, I was awake by then and realised I was wrapped up in my duvet like Cleopatra ready for presentation to Caesar.
#A QUITTER NEVER WINS FULL#
I find this irritating now because I’ve got a feeling my filing cabinet is getting too full after so long remembering so much. This was completely correct, to the point I can still recite obscure law reports from fifty years ago – especially Mr Bourne the duck shagger. She told me ‘just read the book three times, without trying to remember anything.
#A QUITTER NEVER WINS HOW TO#
Locals are now familiar with the guy with the cane who mumbles “suppositories, prep H and emery boards suppositories, prep H and emery boards…” standing at the pelican crossing.Īt college, I wanted to know how to remember stuff in books. So I recite my shopping list all the way to the chemist. If I repeat something over and over, it will get lodged in my brain. When you next want them, your brain quickly goes through a file of photos until it finds the one with the keys you took earlier. When you leave your keys on the table, your brain takes a photo of the keys on the table. Us blind folks never see anything written down, so we don’t take a photo to remember.
It turned out he wanted me to remind him of the title of the Perfume Genius album I’ve been raving about all year. My voice came out in a whisper, as though I had his wife in bed next to me. He is away and clearly doesn’t understand the concept of time zones.
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