Inspiration! Wow! It's a miracle word. It brings a lot of additional positive alerts swirling inside your head as soon as you face it. Persistence is one of them and I believe this is the most important trait if you want to be exceptionally successful in your life. But unfortunately most people only remain persistent throughout their lives and leave behind their dreams and goals aside.
However, there are many examples which establish the narrative that persistence isn't age bound. There are many people who defied the odds of their growing age and became successful in the later stages of their lives. The best of them I found is Raymond Albert Kroc who not only remained persistent throughout his life but he worshipped it.
Don't tell me, you haven't watched 'The Founder' a documentary based on how Ray Kroc, a 52 year old businessman, was in search of an idea or a design that would reward him exceptional success. He found it when most people probably start accepting they were only born to die. For Ray and for people who worship persistence age is nothing but a number. You can feel and approve his persistence when he recites his last dialogue in the movie.
Now, I know what you're thinkin'. How the heck does a 52-year-old, over-the-hill milkshake-machine salesman... build a fast-food empire with 16,000 restaurants, in 50 states, in 5 foreign countries... with an annual revenue of in the neighborhood of $700,000,000.00... One word... PERSISTENCE. Nothing in this world can take the place of good old persistence. Talent won't. Nothing's more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius won't. Unrecognized genius is practically a cliche. Education won't. Why the world is full of educated fools. Persistence and determination alone are all powerful.
The initial words are the proclamation in defense of reaching to a point where your age really matters for being successful. Other words are marked with the importance of persistence. These are powerful words from an aged man and I completely agree to them.
I had a lot to reflect upo my life when I first came to know about Ray and his persistence. I watched this movie in 2017 and till that time I had been into my career of teaching for 10 years. I won't be dishonest to tell you that I was quite happy with my job. I loved it and I still love teaching. But what I didn't love was working in private schools and colleges which were run by money freaks. I had no deep affinity nor any despise to their objective. But when I realised that soon I would be entering into my 40s and to remain happily working for others won't suffice for my dreams that I had while I was quite young.
For some fun effect, in case you're already getting bored, let's listen to Kevin Hart
So, was it for my daily job that I forgot about my dreams? Was it my self satisfaction that came with the job? Or was it my ignorance for persistence?
Now, I am sitting in my mid 40s, without a daily job for others, planning to achieve something exceptional in what I truly believe. I have a long list of things I want to achieve before I die. I don't believe in the narrative of age. I now know persistence is what puts age as just a number.
From the inspiration that Ray brought into my life, I decided to align my efforts to something exceptional. I started finding from the very day I watched the movie. While I was trying my hands on a lot of things, I came in contact with Bitcoin in 2017. TBH, it took me almost 4 years to fully understand that Bitcoin is a perfect ally on the road to exceptional success in what I wanna achieve from my life. Now that, I've been for over 8 years with Bitcoin and want to declare that I'll be persistent with it throughout my life. The prices, the charts, the indexes, the criticism, the praise, the bears, the Bulls nothing matters to me. The only thing that matters is believing in Bitcoin and being persistence towards attaining that exceptional success.
Success is definitely variable from person to person, my meaning of being exceptionally successful is-
- Being rich so much that I never have to think before buying anything that's necessary or required for any moment.
- To be a Nomad and be able to visit every corner of the world.
- To fulfill the wishes and needs of my family.
- Opening a school\college on the principles of 'Learn according to your talent'.
- Helping people find the real meaning for their lives. This is what we are already doing as non profit organisation.
So if it's your age and any other factor that ever stops you, I suggest you to listen Ray's words or you can isten this song as well.