堅持 (Persistence, Insistence, Perseverance, Adherence, Continuity, Sustainability)

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堅持 (Persistence, Insistence, Perseverance, Adherence, Continuity, Sustainability)
問問自己，在我們的一生當中，有沒有一直堅持要做一件事，永遠努力，有恆心、毅力，永不退轉，至死不渝的呢？
其實，做許多事情，無論大事、小事，我們都需要堅持的。克服困難，需要堅持，完成作業，需要堅持，體育鍛鍊，同樣也需要堅持。堅持就是不放棄，永不言敗。試問「堅持」是什麼？披荊斬棘的勇氣，永不言棄的恆心，鍥而不捨的精神，就是堅持。在人生的路上，因為堅持，所以輝煌，因為堅持，所以絢麗，因為堅持，所以成功。想要實現自己的願望，唯有永不言敗的精神，堅持不懈的努力。一次不行，可以兩次，兩次不行，可以無數次的嘗試，終有一天，一定會獲得成功的。有時，我們不滿現況，不是因為生活匱乏，而是忽略了堅持的力量。當我們夠堅持自己的想法，堅持自己的意念，堅持自己的夢想，堅持自己的目標，人生就能感到快樂！夢想也不再遙不可及。生命，因為堅持而完美！夢想，因為堅持而成真！堅持，真的不難，只要願意！
一位心理學家做了一個實驗。他把一條餓了多日的小鯊魚放到魚缸裡，用一塊透明的玻璃，把魚缸分成兩半，在放著小鯊魚的另一邊，放進幾條小魚。這條小鯊魚，一看到小魚，馬上像火箭一樣，朝小魚衝去，結果撞到了中間的玻璃。但是，牠並不放棄，一而再、再而三地向小魚衝過去。結果，小鯊魚不但吃不到小魚，而且還撞得焦頭爛額。這個時候，心理學家再把中間的玻璃拿開，小鯊魚雖然游到魚缸中間，卻裹足不前。即使小魚慢慢地游到小鯊魚的嘴邊，小鯊魚也不敢吃，因為牠知道，如果牠吃小魚，頭就會疼！小鯊魚在經歷一次次的失敗後，即使把那塊真實的牆拿掉，疼痛卻在小鯊魚的心中，築出了一道堅不可摧的牆，要想拿掉這道牆，旁人是無法做到的。同樣地，當我們為了一個人生目標，不斷努力，但卻屢遭挫敗和打擊後，在我們的心理上，也難免產生了一道無形的牆。很多事情，我們都輸不起。有時，我們可以贏得滿堂彩，有時，只打了個平手，有時，卻真的好像走到了「絕境」。很多人會露出疲憊而傷懷的心，說:「我已經盡力了，我經歷太多苦難了，再背負一點點，我就會垮掉，我再也不相信夢想了……。」當我們對生活畏懼時，所有的苦難，都會無限地擴大，所有細微的麻煩，都會成為我們生命中，無法承受之重，它就是我們心裡上的一道堅不可摧的牆。它會將我們所有遭遇到的麻煩，都壘成一磚一瓦，直到把我們漸漸掩埋。
涓滴之水，可以磨損大石，不是因為力量大，而是因為晝夜不捨的滴墜。「日積月累」的精神，值得我們深思。一天積累一點，堅持不懈的日日累積，最終就會「積少成多」的。「萬丈高樓平地起」，若人生是一幢高樓，那麼堅持的累積，就是高樓的基礎。當我們想要實現一個夢想時，堅定的信念，是一股助力，我們將自己的夢想，分步驟、分大小，逐步實現，一步步走向成功，不盲從、不急進，不言敗，不放棄及退縮，只要相信夢想，並且堅持，就能開出美麗的花朵的。
有位日本武士，在一次戰役中，面對實力比他軍隊強十倍的敵人。他決定打贏這場硬仗，但是他的部下卻表示懷疑。當他率領部隊經過神廟時，他停下來，說：「我們在神廟前面用硬幣問卜，如果硬幣正面朝上，就表示我們能贏；否則就會輸，我們即馬上撤退。」武士拿出硬幣，當眾擲出，大家睜眼一看，是正面朝上，便歡呼起來，頓時充滿勇氣和信心，最後，他們大獲全勝。一位部下說：「感謝神的幫助。」武士說：「這是你們自己打贏了戰鬥。」於是，他拿出硬幣，讓大家瞧，原來，硬幣的兩面，都是正面！
當我們睜大眼睛，注視世界，勇敢地面對世間的一切，並在最堅持的狀態中，我們一定可以贏得夢寐以求的東西。生活並不像我們想像中的那麼糟，只要我們有一顆感恩、充滿愛的心，沒有什麼是解決不了的。從古到今，不論是富人，還是窮人，生活都是不容易的，而社會確實也有陰影與不平，但是，踏踏實實做人、認認真真辦事，用一顆感恩的心去生活，充實而篤定，絕對可以吸引與製造生活中的美好和快樂。《聖經》有句箴言：「你若在患難之日膽怯，你的力量就要變得微不足道。」往往再堅持一下下，成功就會出現。堅持下去，才有機會取得成功。持之以恆地做下去，最後才會成功。只有堅定自己的目標，明白自己到底想要什麼，並朝著這個方向，堅定不移地去奮鬥拼搏，我們才能在這個繁複的社會中立足、成功。
If we look throughout the world in every industry and every culture, there’s one consistent trend among successful individuals, and that trend is the ability to persevere. It’s the ability to stand up and take a step forward when everyone else sits down. Our greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Colonel Sanders, Mark Victor Hansen, Steve Jobs, are the ones who have persisted beyond the norm. But this is not always natural; it’s a learned trait. This means that persistence is most often a choice. It’s a matter of believing in oneself and finding a way to reach the end result when the first several strategies failed.
Take Abraham Lincoln, for example. He failed in business at the age of 21. He was defeated in a legislative race at age 22, failed again at business at age 24, overcame the death of his lover at age 26, had a nervous breakdown at age 27, lost a congressional race at 34 and 36, lost a senatorial race at 45, failed to become vice president at 47, lost a senatorial race at 49, and then finally was elected president of the United States of America at age 52. Imagine what America might look like today if Lincoln hadn’t persisted through those previous failures.
There’s the famous story about Thomas Edison, trying 9,999 times to perfect the light bulb, and he couldn’t do it before. Someone said, “Are you going to have 10,000 failures?” He responded, “I didn’t fail; I just discovered another way not to invent the electric light bulb.” He chose how he perceived his previous experiences, and decided not to look at them as failures. How about Colonel Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken? He was a military retiree and had nothing to his name, except his mother’s chicken recipe. So what did he do? He took his old sports wagon out, and began driving to restaurants after restaurants. His intention was to sell the chicken recipe, but he was turned down time and time again, 1,007 times before he received his first yes. That one yes is what made possible Kentucky Fried Chicken possible.
We could keep going with story after story of those who had to be flexible, creative, and, most of all, persistent despite failing hundreds and thousands of times. Take Steve Jobs, for example. Members of his own board of directors kicked him out of his own company. He could have allowed this to stop him, but instead, he came back to Apple and was voted back in as chairman of Apple. He created the iPod, the iPhone and a new line of Mac computers.
What are the steps to increasing our level of persistence?
1. Clarify our why. By identifying the deep purpose behind our goal, our “why” will push us through the challenging times. We have to write it out in detail what it means to us to have this goal complete.
2. Map out the possibilities. We need to identify all the different means and methods we could use to reach our goal. There’s more than one way to reach a desired result. No matter what that result is, there are multiple avenues to reach the destination. By mapping out all of the ways we can reach the goal, we, then, can easily adjust if one strategy isn’t working.
3. Take action. Nothing can ever be created without measurable action. We should get started and adjust as we go along the way.
Time after time, individuals are, easily, stopped along their journey. Just because they failed once, it doesn’t mean that their failures define them, or that their projects will never work. It simply means, as Thomas Edison believed, that they found one more way not doing well. But it also means they are one step closer to achieving the result.

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