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In today’s world there is one critical component to achieving the success you desire in your life. The necessary component is having a mindset for success. Without the correct mindset you won’t achieve the success you desire.

So what is the correct mindset you ask?

The correct mindset begins with perseverance. Without perseverance your chances of success become a lot slimmer.

Why?

Because without perseverance you won’t be willing to stand up to the many trials you will face in your journey. To understand the importance of perseverance you only have to look at some of the greatest success stories of the last 100 years.

First up is an obvious one if you have looked into the lives of successful people of this era. Everyone knows the story of Thomas A. Edison and his quest to develop the electric light bulb. In his drive to his goal Edison tried and failed over a thousand times to develop the light bulb. When asked about the failures Edison replied “ we now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb.”

Also consider the following from Ask.com about Edison and the electric light bulb:

“Edison actually had to invent a total of seven system elements that were critical to the practical application of electric lights as an alternative to the gas lights that were prevalent in that day.

These were the development of:

• the parallel circuit,
• a durable light bulb,
• an improved dynamo,
• the underground conductor network,
• the devices for maintaining constant voltage,
• safety fuses and insulating materials, and
• light sockets with on-off switches.

Before Edison could make his millions, every one of these elements had to be invented and then, through careful trial and error, developed into practical, reproducible components.”With all of these obstacles would you have the perseverance to continue to work on the development of an electric light bulb? We are fortunate that Edison had the quality of perseverance in his make-up and worked through all the problems connected with the development and implementation of the electric light bulb.

What does this have to do with your success?

You have to develop the same mindset for yourself. You have to understand there may be setbacks in your journey and you have to be willing to work through them. You must keep your eyes set on your goals and not look at the obstacles which crop up in your way sometimes daily and even sometimes minute to minute. As the quote goes “you must keep your eyes on the prize.”

When you persevere you will find that you are able to keep moving towards the goals you set for yourself. Develop the mindset for yourself and you will succeed at any goal you set.

By J David Phillips