Endurance focuses on withstanding challenges whilst Persistence focuses on your continued effort towards a goal.
Our life is a staircase experience and not an elevator experience. We need to take each day at a time to be able to get to the top in life. We need to allow ourselves to go through the process.
A lot of people these days want to sleep and wake up at the top without working hard to get there. Allow yourself to go through the process. As a matter of fact, in going through the process, you are taken through various exposures and various life-learning experiences that will shape, mould, and direct your trajectory into that mature person who can maintain and sustain the feat achieved.
Don’t forget this: more haste in life will render you less speed in life.
It is often said that the nose of the bulldog is often slanted backwards so that it can continue to breathe without letting go (this talks about endurance and persistence). Without perseverance, the snail also reached the ark.
A story is told of the Chinese bamboo that people planted this tree in the Far East. During the first four (4) years, they watered and applied fertilizer to the plant, but it produced seemingly little or no results at all.
Then, in the fifth (5th) year, they again watered and applied fertilizer to it. In the next five (5) weeks, the plant has grown to a height of 90 feet.
Now, the obvious question is: Did the Chinese bamboo tree grow to 90 feet within 5 weeks or 5 years? The answer is 5 years.
So it means if they had given up and quit trying watering and applying the fertilizer, the plant wouldn’t have reached its full potential.
So, Persistence and Endurance are two great keys to our success journey.
Selah…
