Perseverance - Success is Showing Up Everday, How to Truly Live

What if the secret to unparalleled success lies not in talent or education but in a relentless commitment to showing up every day? In this episode, we unlock the transformative power of perseverance and how it shapes our journeys in relationships, recovery, and professional life. Drawing wisdom from Calvin Coolidge, we debunk the myth that talent alone can lead to triumph, showcasing real-life examples from sports, arts, and business that underscore the vital role of persistence. Whether you're striving to maintain a meaningful relationship, achieve financial independence, or navigate the road to recovery, this episode offers invaluable insights on why consistent effort is the unsung hero behind every success story.

Join us as we delve into the significance of mutual effort in relationships, through the lens of Chris Rock’s vivid analogy of lifting a couch together, and how this principle extends to achieving financial success. We emphasize the importance of community support and invite you to be part of the Recovery Freedom Circle on Facebook, a space where you can share your experiences and inspire others. Through heartfelt discussions and practical advice, this episode reminds us that the journey of self-improvement is not just about the destination but the relentless pursuit of being better every single day.

Chapters

• 0:01 The Power of Perseverance
• 9:51 Consistent Effort Leads to Success

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

You want success in life, show up. It is about perseverance. Perseverance will get you more than any other character trait. Spiritual principle there is.

Speaker 1: 0:18

Welcome again to another episode of the 1% in Recovery podcast, where we encourage you to laugh every day. Work hard. Nothing in life is easy. You've got to work. Work in your relationships, work in recovery, work in your job or your business. Just work and love unconditionally. You have to give out and put out more love into the universe and more love will come back to you than what is expected. Stop having an agenda. Just love people. Give out love and watch love work. Remember. There's a few things that we always like to say Recovery is beautiful, your EQ is your IQ and you cannot outthink an emotional issue. Now what I keep encouraging people is to join the Facebook group Recovery Freedom Circle. That is a community where everyone gets to share in their accomplishments, in their goals, in their dreams, in their questions, in their struggles. It can be a quote. It could be something that really motivates you or pushes you forward. So join the Facebook group Recovery Freedom Circle it's down below in the show notes and join the community. So everybody has a piece, everybody has a voice.

Speaker 1: 1:51

So let's jump in to this week's episode Perseverance. This is one of those character traits, spiritual principles, that really almost supersedes discipline, because a lot of times people say if you just have enough discipline you can work the 12 steps, you can get ahead in life. But in reality discipline and perseverance are very similar and you need both. But discipline is almost like you've got to understand, almost like the rules, the boundaries in what needs to take place for you to succeed. And then the every day rain or shine, sun or snow you've got to persevere Because it doesn't matter. You know, in the old days You've got to persevere because it doesn't matter. You know, in the old days we talked just about perseverance or press on In a lot of ways. Now it's about you know, do you have that hustle, do you have that grind? Do you have that ability to just keep getting knocked down and getting back up, to make that one more call, to go to one more event, to do just one more thing? That is that perseverance. Perseverance means that you will move forward.

Speaker 1: 3:13

One of the best pieces ever written about perseverance was by a US president, calvin Coolidge, where he talked about perseverance, where he says that nothing is more important than perseverance and determination, because talent will not. There are so many examples of unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is filled with educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent, and determination alone are omnipotent. And that is so, so true. You can only move forward when you will just persevere. You will struggle. There is nothing that happens in your life without any type of struggle. Do you give up? No, no one likes a quitter. You've got to just keep understanding.

Speaker 1: 4:19

Maybe you did something wrong, maybe you weren't in practice enough. Whether we're talking about maybe it's your profession, you didn't study enough, you didn't learn, you didn't get the enough training, or whether you're playing a sport or musical instrument, a lot of that comes down to practice. Did you actually practice your shot or your hitting stance, whether it's baseball or golf? Or did you really practice all the different chords in the guitar and how to just move slowly, or how on the piano? You know there's so many things. Whether you're doing about the arts, about painting or sculpture, you know so much of that is just you've got to keep practicing.

Speaker 1: 5:02

Usually, the first time you do something whether, let's say, you're doing songwriting, whether you're doing stand-up comedy, whether you're writing some type of formal persuasive speech, more likely, the first time you're going to suck. You got the only way to get through it. You cannot just wake up an expert. You do not wake up doing something extremely well where people will say, oh, that person knows what they're doing. You probably have to struggle, and that's what I'm saying. The first couple of times you're just going to keep almost like hitting your head on the wall or stumping your foot on the end of the bed. There's always going to be that ouch moment where then you can then really understand. Okay, this is how I'm getting better Slowly. It's no different than what I did when I started this podcast. I've gotten better over six seasons.

Speaker 1: 6:00

Whether I'm doing solo episodes or I'm interviewing people, the same thing about understanding the steps. That's why I say I'm a recovery expert. I understand the steps. I'm a step expert because I've been studying this for 25, over 25 years. I've been studying this for 25, over 25 years, but especially when I pushed all this Life is Wonderful. In these last two years, just rereading information, going to more meetings, talking to more people, doing much more work, watching movies or retreats, doing all the work. That's necessary. I love doing it, it's fulfilling. But it also makes me more knowledgeable. The more I do it, the more I write, the more I speak, the more I clarify. So then you become the beneficiary of my knowledge, of my experience, and we can then move forward. Because what I really want is more people to get recovery. I mean, that is that simple Understand the steps. The steps are designed for living.

Speaker 1: 7:03

But a lot of this is perseverance. You've got to keep coming back and doing better, even when you think that you are on top of the world. You can do better. Like they always say, even if you win some type of sports championship and you say, man, it was so hard to win that year. What's even harder is the next year to repeat as a champion Number one. People are coming for you. They say you have, you are the champion. We're going to knock you off, number two. You didn't catch it. You're not going to catch anybody's surprise as the reigning champion. So you're going to have to work extra hard and maybe learn a few more moves, learn a few more items to your repertoire, so then you can then exceed. So perseverance is that thing. We all get knocked down.

Speaker 1: 7:55

You just got to just keep showing up, because in a lot of ways they say you know what 98% is actually pers um, perservation, um is actually sweat, um, and you know only 2% is you know truly. Maybe your talent, your know-how, you know a lot of. It is just if you're able to perspire, just almost like get into the gym or get behind the computer and go through all those tough actions, you will perspire. But the thing is that means you're actually learning and you are moving forward. So, yes, showing up is usually half the battle in almost anything, whether it's about money, whether it's about love, whether it's about your hobbies, whether it's just about getting more out of friendships.

Speaker 1: 8:52

A lot of times friendships a lot of people say they don't have that many friends. I can tell you I'm a great friend mainly because I show up, mainly because I will text people, I will get on the phone and call people or I will receive their calls. Friendship requires mainly for a person to show up and not just show up when you're doing something fun, like going to the game or a concert or going out to eat. It's doing those tough times when you're cleaning up after a natural disaster or someone has to change a flat tire or move or go to the airport or deal with some type of grief, the ending of a relationship, talk to someone, be able to have a hug or an ear. That's really the essence of friendship is showing up and doing all that, what they call maybe the dirty work, but it's really just doing the work, doing what a true person does, true friend does.

Speaker 1: 9:51

Same thing with love. Showing up a lot of times is relationship is successful if you show up and the other person shows up. And I go back to that analogy that Chris Rock loves to talk about. It's easy to move a couch when two people are picking up their end. You're just showing up and picking up your end, worry about your end. If the other person fails, they fail. But you can't just give up and not do the work.

Speaker 1: 10:18

Same thing with just making money. You just got to learn. A lot of times people think that they're going to go viral or just be successful. No, it's not going to happen. You just got to keep kind of working and then sometimes things will have more traction than others. The same thing in recovery. When we talk about this, recovery is mainly about just showing up each and every day understanding your feelings, stating your feelings, understanding how to connect with a higher power, with a God, how to connect with others yourself, how to have self-love, love of others and really move forward. So that is what recovery is about. So show up, persevere, do the work and just keep doing the work. Every day is not going to be easy. There are going to be hard days, there are going to be days that you struggle and you've just got to keep showing up each and every day. That's how it works. With that we are going to conclude this episode of the 1% in recovery.