The Power of Persistence, Parenthood Edition

I never really knew the true power of persistence until I became a dad. I had read all about it in various books, heard successful people talk about it on YouTube, but I never truly understood its power until I tried to put my little 2 month old baby to bed.

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Before I get into the lesson here, let me set the stage. It’s 7:30 pm, the nighttime music is on, the baby has been bathed and her sleeper is on. The kitchen is full of used bottles and the baby’s bath tub is spilling over. But none of that matters because all you can focus on is the shriek of the baby crying. Nothing is working; rocking, a soother, darkness…

It took my wife and I about 3 hours to get that little baby to bed that night. But in the midst of what seemed like days of crying, our persistence paid off. We got her to bed and she slept for a solid 20 minutes… Then it happened again. Over and over again we rushed into her room to soothe her and calm her down. After all, she’s new to the world and she just wants her mom and dad. As another hour passed by we did all that we could to calm her down and it worked. She ended up sleeping for another 4 hours, then fed, then went back to sleep. We WON!

What’s the moral of this story? Persistence pays off. I’m sure that if there are any parents here you can relate to the story above. The crying, the screaming, and all the other emotions that the parents are experiencing! But the lesson here is that if you are persistent with what you are trying to achieve, you will achieve your goal.

The next morning when I work up, I thought about this amazing power that my wife and I had showed the night before, and I finally understood what everyone meant when they said that persistence is what makes you successful. I started to relate this situation to my life and how I could use this lesson to help others. I realised that if I were to put the same amount of persistence into my work, I would achieve phenomenal levels of success.

But there was something missing.

I realised that the reason I was so persistent was because I wanted something to stop (the baby’s crying), or the goal, and I had a strong enough reason why (my daughters happiness) to accomplish my goal. Then it hit me, the reason I was not accomplishing what I wanted to in the past was because my why was not strong enough to put forth the effort to accomplish it.

Think about this, if that goal you are going after was constantly crying (or screaming) in your ear and the only way to make it stop was to accomplish it, wouldn’t you do everything in your power to make it happen? Wouldn’t you cast everything else aside and just focus on getting that noise to stop? That’s the kind of attitude you need to take when going after your goal.

Lesson: Go after your goal like a new parent trying to get their baby to stop crying!

I would love to hear about how you used the lesson in this post to achieve some of your dreams. Did this help you? What other kind of methods work for you? Let me know in the comments below. I would love to her some of your stories!

To your success, Jacob Lethbridge

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