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What it takes to persist
You already have what it takes to persist. For persistence is nothing more than continuing to do what you've been doing.
Persistence makes the difference between no achievement and great achievement. And persistence is available to all who choose it.
The enemy of persistence is that little voice you hear in your head that urges you to give up. When you hear that voice, remember that you don't have to do what it says, and you don't have to fight it either.
Just listen to that voice, allow it to have its say, and then calmly let it go. Keep on going and you'll quickly be beyond it.
Remember often, with great detail and passion, why you've chosen to do what you're doing. Keep your focus on the goal, and know that by continuing to progress on your journey, one step at a time, you'll get there.
Persistence isn't complicated, and it doesn't require you to uncover some deep, dark, closely guarded secret. You have what it takes if you'll simply choose to do what it takes and persist until the job is done.
-- Ralph Marston
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I really like this reading. Persistence is how I stayed sober. I just knew I couldn't go back to where I came from, even though I was in denial about being an alcoholic, I just kept coming.
So many times over the years, I have been sick and tired, and tired of being sick. I have had that voice say, "What is the use?" "Enough is enough already!" "Who cares?" only to discover, I care and more importantly, the God of my understanding cares.
It says persist until the job is done, yet I will always be an alcoholic and my disease is there, whether I want to acknowledge it or not. So I have to persist, one day at a time, to do the do things I need for my recovery.
I can't
My God can
Just for today, I choose to let Him.
I can't give up. I can't be a couch potato. I got sober to live. Live clean and sober. If I stop, my disease might catch up and I might let my God go, because I am listening to my disease instead of my God. Step 3 says we need to make a decision to put our life in God's Care. Part of my persistence is saying that prayer and turning my day, one day at a time, to my God and who He would have me be and do.
Instead of being a couch potato, I can rest in my God's Care and know He will lead me in the way He would have me go. Sometimes I just need that quiet time, and persist on not letting anything else interfere, my thoughts or other people's words and actions.
