Comments on: Maximum Productivity: Persistence

By: Industry News

Industry News — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:42:38 +0000

Persistence is key to success, but there is a fine line between persisting and flogging a dead horse. Defining this line can be quite a challenge, especially if emotions affect the decision making.

By: Arswino

Arswino — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:02:05 +0000

Great description, Mike. You clearly outline how to be persistence.
I remember a quote from Robert Collier : “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

Always be success, Mike.

By: Mike King

Mike King — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:59:16 +0000

You’re absolutely right Ben! The difficult with this is staying positive and moving in the right directly still even after those stumbling points. You must learn to recognize smaller steps and slower progress than you might initially hope for. Continue doing that, and you can overcome anything, but you are right, you can’t simply do that immediately.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:53:25 +0000

Hi Mike,

I think that one of the keys to building persistence is to not allow one’s inner critic too much of one’s mental space when one makes mistakes or has setbacks on the way.

I had one particular habit I wanted to change and once I ignored my inner critic about previous “failed” attempts and introduced a daily accountablity tracker, I was able to change this habit permanently. Effective personal development takes time to fully mature – something at odds with having to be switched on 24/7.

Cheers

By: Mike King

Mike King — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:13:57 +0000

Thanks for the comment Karl. I just starting looking at your book, I didn’t realize it was online free! That’s awesome and I’ll look through it to see what’s all in it.I’ll probably buy a copy as well as I think it’d be a great gift for people as well.

Anyway, I think that a lot of people spent time on being creative and having ideas but they are not often enough in the right direction. People tend to shift one way then the other and temporarily forget what their purpose or direction really is so they don’t actually spend much time going the right way even though they are VERY busy and productive. Just on the wrong things…

Thanks for your comment!

By: Karl Staib - Work Happy Now

Karl Staib - Work Happy Now — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:08:40 +0000

One of my biggest weaknesses was direction. I always had an idea of what I wanted to accomplish, but no single direction. My focus has sharpened and I’m accomplishing a lot more than just a few months ago.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:28:01 +0000

Right from step one I enjoyed the analogy about a plane constantly readjusting and making small changes to stay on the correct flight path…

Our natural inclination is really just to give up or move on after a few goes at something – as you point out here, there is much more to being persistent and attaining maximum productivity. Cool, Mike.

By: Mike King

Mike King — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:43:35 +0000

Wow, thanks Husain. I’ve been waiting to read your comments. Your suspense factor has forced me to be highly engaged once I saw your comment. I think you have a nack at sharing things as you have also put your comments out to further some discussion.

I appreciate your comments on this series, it has definitely been the one I’ve spent the most time on for this site, ever! I hope I’ll do the series justice with my last one on connections. It was definitely the most difficult to write, but from my perspective and I know yours as well now, the most important.

Thanks for sharing!

By: Husain

Husain — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:52:25 +0000

It’s been long time since I was repeating to everyone I met in my life that persistence is the crucial part to be successful in our life, considering all points you mentioned before are met, .
I tried to dedicate some time just to read your brilliant “Maximum Productivity” series. I admit that I discovered great tips that I would keep in mind to help improve myself:
Perspective: improve your life from the perspective filling your passion.
Attitude: always have that positive attitude.
Focus: thanks God that I wasn’t the only one who doesn’t watch TV.
Persistence: never stop improving what you have started, else you will have to start to build it again from the beginning.

Finally, I’m eagerly looking forward to the rest of the series, and “Connections” part is what I’m concerned at the most, as I have a problem in how to share what you have effectively with others.

Regards
Husain

By: Mike King

Mike King — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:07:58 +0000

Viriya and Daniel. Yes, this one is definitely the key to this area of productivity and like you mentioned, also the most difficult.

Personally, I think the main reason is that people don’t put much value on accomplishment when it is something small, they don’t value progress and instead seem to be disappointed that it was only 0.5 a pound lost or 2 visits to the gym or whatever it is. They discourage themselves from repeating instead of being happy with some results and then staying persistent at it to see more.