Why Perseverance Matters to Success

Knowing how not to quit — that’s the one thing Share On Purpose CEO Terri Maxwell says all successful people have in common. From Olympic gold winners and Billboard-topping singers to Fortune 500 founders and billionaire entrepreneurs, perseverance separates the triumphant from the aspiring. It’s what breeds success, a truth R’ymonda Davis, Managing Director of Promote On Purpose, learned early in life.

“I’ve been fighting against odds since I was born,” said R’ymonda. “I was born two months premature, and I wasn’t supposed to live. I didn’t even have a name for three days. But I was strong, I kept fighting, and here I am.”

Naturally persistent, R’ymonda used that fighting spirit to propel her forward in life. As a child and teen, she excelled at both sports and academics and continually pushed herself to achieve more. Still, she said it wasn’t until she came to work at Share On Purpose that she truly learned the power of perseverance.

“I was hired a little over three years ago as an entry-level engagement coordinator,” said R’ymonda, “and it was that EC role that changed how I think about perseverance.”

The Perseverance Mindset

“Perseverance is a spiritual force,” explained R’ymonda. “To win, you can’t just decide to focus harder. You have to access that force. It’s within all of us, but you have to know how to access it. Working at Share taught me how to do that.

“Even though I could identify times I’d persevered from a young age, it wasn’t until I dove into the Success Excelerator^TM training and learned from Terri that perseverance became more tangible — something I could tap into. The Success Excelerator^TM training makes that explicit, and it helped me develop a game plan that’s repeatable for approaching and overcoming challenges.”

Harnessing the Power of Perseverance

That game plan is crucial for success, said R’ymonda. Everyone accesses perseverance differently. Knowing how to tap into it purposefully increases its power.

One tool used at Share On Purpose is getting into a mindset where you can harness the power of perseverance. It’s known as getting into “state”.

“I used to get into state before track meets in school, but I didn’t know that was what I was doing,” said R’ymonda. “Share gave me a process. I spend a lot of time in prayer because I really draw from my spirit to drive my why and my purpose and to understand that every circumstance is larger than me. Once I’ve centered myself, then I access perseverance space [or “state”] by listening to music and dancing or getting active. I have a ‘game face’ playlist that pumps me up and gets me in the right mindset. I also have affirmations. Thanks to Share’s training, I now have a toolkit I can draw from to access my inner perseverance and move forward.”

“I believe in the power of perseverance,” she added. “By tapping into it when needed, you frame the circumstance and challenge in a different light — in the light of a solution instead of a problem. That leads to breakthroughs. Sometimes the breakthrough is very obvious and external, but sometimes it’s simply the growth that comes through the process. And that’s what I’m truly grateful for, because the growth transforms your life. Growing through perseverance isn’t just something you can use at work. It’s your entire lifestyle.”

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