Perseverance Is a Gift
For someone who has the habit of not finishing a job, for someone who has the thought of quitting a boring work, for someone who has just don’t have the eagerness to stay where he is at present, perseverance is not the answer. The more you go against the tide to persevere, the more likely you are to quit and surrender. The more effort you exert on such a virtue, the more likely you are to drain yourself. And when you drain, the more likely you would feel small about yourself.
Don’t try to persevere. Perseverance is a gift; and you can’t force a gift on yourself. For if you do, it is no longer a gift.
Perhaps it is just better to make yourself enthusiastic at all times, even if you already have decided on quitting a job. Anyhow, you have all the right to be enthusiastic. No one can tell me not to even for just a day, and the next day, and the coming days.
These are two distinct traits. Be enthusiastic with everything, with your work and even with the thought of quitting on your work. With enthusiasm you don’t have the responsibility to keep it that way for months, years, or a lifetime. With it, you don’t have to persevere. You just have to be really happy and engrossed with the present things you are doing; and this, I call enthusiasm. Don’t think of tomorrow, be engrossed with the present, today, the here-and-now; just be enthusiastic.
See the difference. Start living a life full of enthusiasm. Just be enthusiastic. Don’t have to be persevering.
And when you can do this, send me your comment. Perhaps how you find it.
