Persistence is facing a challenge believing you will succeed.
- Why: Persistence encourages you to make change, mark your progress, and build belief that you can reach your goal.
- How: Create a realistic goal and the steps needed to reach the goal so that when all of the steps are completed, you have attained your goal.
- ☐ Consider your challenge and realize the importance of believing you can meet the challenge.
- ☐ Creating a goal is a way to build the belief you can meet the challenge. The goal must be reachable within a realistic time limit.
- ☐ A goal without a plan is only a wish. The steps describe the actions that are needed to reach your goal. Create as many steps as needed so that you can see the progress you are making. You persist by building belief in yourself.
- ☐ Remember to reward yourself as you persist.
- Example: I have a project to do and need a plan to complete it on time.
- ☐ My challenge is to complete a project.
- ☐ My goal is to “Create a Project Time Plan.”
- ☐ I break the major parts of the project into smaller steps to better identify the tasks and how much time is needed to complete each part.
- ☐ I assign a due date to each project part.
- ☐ I make sure that there are enough steps so that I can see the progress I am making.
- ☐ I monitor progress, check-off completed steps, and remember to reward myself as progress is made.
