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Let’s start this post by quoting the rapper 50 Cent: “Most people can’t handle boredom.  That means they can’t stay on one thing until they get good at it.  And they wonder why they’re unhappy.”

The problem is that we live in a world where we expect instant results.  If we’re hungry, we want fast food, if we’re feeling down we want instant gratification.  In the same way, television is teaching us that anyone can be an overnight success – whether it’s American Idol, Britain’s Got Talent or the X-Factor, we’ve a whole new breed of people who think that you don’t have to work at and stick with something to become a success.

However, in fact, you don’t have to work hard to be a success – it’s just that we don’t understand that we’ve still got to do what we’ve got to do.  Hard work is only a state of mind – there’s a world of difference between hard work and a labour of love.  But if you’re easily bored or quickly disillusioned, then almost anything that you turn your hand to will become hard work.   And once anything becomes hard work, it’s the easiest thing in the world to try something else that will give you the instant kick that you’re looking for.  And that’s why so few people truly succeed.  To succeed you have to be single-minded and ruthless with yourself but not with others. 

Even in the course of our everyday lives, we fall on our face again and again.  We may be striving for the kind of clarity of mind that will create our success but, once again, our default state of “I’m bored” mind kicks in and our best efforts come to nothing.  Of course our best efforts will come to nothing if we don’t pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and start over – therein lies the secret of success.

Let’s finish by quoting Calvin Coolidge, the  President of the United States who said:  “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

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