| Achieving success in life no matter how one | | | | him still to work harder in order for him to |
| may define what successful is will always be | | | | realize his goals. |
| dependent on being persistent. No matter | | | | |
| what the success goals are, be it in | | | | In all aspects of life, there will always be |
| business, sports or even family life, being | | | | challenges that will be ahead of anyone who |
| persistent will always play an important | | | | has planned a success road map. There will |
| role. | | | | be hurdles and humps along the way and the |
| | | | only way to cut short the journey towards the |
| Being persistent is defined as continuing to | | | | end of the map is if the person traveling |
| move on with whatever goal has been planned | | | | that success road map has decided to stop, |
| originally even though an external event or | | | | change directions or even return back to |
| initial losses may have slowed down, or | | | | square one. |
| temporarily halt a person while he's on his | | | | |
| way in his trip towards achieving his goals | | | | In order to determine how persistent a person |
| in life. | | | | is in his pursuit of success, he needs to |
| | | | know what drives him towards success. |
| There was this movie shown which starred Cuba | | | | Monetary rewards at the end of the journey |
| Gooding Jr. and Robert De Niro titled "Men of | | | | sometimes do not necessarily guarantee that |
| Honor". It's a true to life story of Carl | | | | the journey was successful. |
| Brashear, who's the first African-American | | | | |
| diver in the United States Navy to reach a | | | | A persistent person will always require the |
| rank of Master Diver at a time in history | | | | passion and the drive of accomplishing his |
| when it was difficult for African-American | | | | goals in life. |
| navy personnel to go beyond the average and | | | | |
| excel. | | | | Passion and drive in whatever a person does |
| | | | in life makes him committed towards his goal. |
| Brashear (played by Gooding) had been very | | | | Material rewards comes in secondary and only |
| much persistent in his goal of completing the | | | | serves as a bonus once they reach the end of |
| navy diver course even though Master Diver | | | | their success road map. |
| Billy Sunday (played by De Niro) who's been | | | | |
| the instructor of Brashear had made the diver | | | | The commitment to finish a task or a goal is |
| course difficult for him to accomplish. He | | | | kept afloat by passion and drive. While this |
| was able to endure and eventually succeed all | | | | trait is intangible, it's a trait that is |
| the racially motivated challenges he had | | | | available for free to anybody. |
| faced in order to be able to complete the | | | | |
| Navy diver course. | | | | While the commitment to finish the trip is |
| | | | fueled by passion and drive towards the |
| Brashear's persistence in achieving his goal | | | | success road map, its always best to check |
| towards success in life didn't end there as | | | | oneself how committed he is in achieving his |
| he has this ultimate goal of attaining the | | | | personal goals. How committed he is in |
| rank of Master Diver. As he accidentally | | | | achieving his plans on the other hand can be |
| lost his legs midway in his career while | | | | checked on how driven and passionate he is in |
| serving in the Navy, he continued to move on | | | | what he is doing. |
| by undergoing intense physical therapy | | | | |
| recovery programs in order for him to | | | | If the goals or objectives are worth all the |
| recover. With an artificial leg, was able to | | | | risk, the time and the effort, this already |
| function in his duties in the Navy again and | | | | justifies the reason to be committed. Being |
| still be able to attain his ultimate goal of | | | | committed then justifies the passion and the |
| becoming a full pledged Master Diver. | | | | drive. |
| | | | |
| In the example above that presents | | | | Anybody can become committed to his dream of |
| persistence in attaining success, unexpected | | | | becoming successful in life. As long as he |
| events has happened in Master Diver | | | | knows that what he's doing is worth |
| Brashear's life. Even though he has set | | | | everything he has been working hard for and |
| forth plans for himself to reach his goals in | | | | this includes the risks of failing along with |
| the Navy, certain events had almost prevented | | | | the emotional and physical stresses, then |
| him from reaching them. It's his persistence | | | | that fuels the reason why he should continue |
| that had helped him reach into himself and | | | | moving on and be persistent in his pursuit of |
| picked him up from his pitfalls and pushed | | | | success. |