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