There is an interesting article on the Harvard Business
Review site, which details the most effective strategies for achieving success.
The author list nine possible strategies in order, the strategies that are most
impactful are listed at the top. To see the article, click here. This work is the
follow up to a previous article, which explains how the author’s research revealed
nine strategies. To see the first article, click here.
The punch line of this is work is that persistence is king.
Having the ability to stick it out good or bad will help you prevail over your challenges.
Goal achievement and skill mastery are the result of effort; they are not
accomplished with some mythical talent you’re born with. Here are few quotes we enjoy about effort.
“Success is dependent on effort.” – Sophocles
“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the
key to unlocking our potential.” - Winston Churchill
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection,
which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by
experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my
lord do you learn.” - C. S. Lewis
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were
to live forever.” - Mahatma Gandhi
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person
refuses to quit.” - Napoleon Hill
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries
with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.” - Napoleon Hill
