Persistence.

What is persistence? Persistence is the beginning of success, it's its foundation. You won't have any success without it. But what exactly is success? There are many ways to describe it. One is that you have success when you're internally happy and satisfied. Another is your education and the way you use it in your life. Although there are a billion ways to describe this success, there is only one way to describe its failure: giving up. No matter what your definition of success is, if you give up and lose persistence, you won't achieve it. Every person in the world is born without knowing the concept of failure. We never knew we could give up. Think about how you learned to walk. The first time you tried, you immediately fell down. The second time you tried, the same thing happened. You didn't know it was possible not to succeed, so you kept trying and trying. You never gave up. 'Cause if you would've, you would've still been crawling right now. So I guess that means we all had persistence the first few years of our lifes. But as we grow we learn there is something called giving up. We learn there is something called failure. I mean, it gets proven to us all the time:
'Don't waste your energy, it will never work.'
'Why don't you give up already?'
'I already tried that, it doesn't work.'
If we were told that bullshit when we were still trying to walk, we wouldn't have believed it. So if we didn't listen to bad advice then, why listen to it now? It only makes us give up faster and lose our persistence. And we won't achieve our goals that way. So if you ever feel like giving up, you MUST keep going, no matter what. Even if it seems impossible, do not give up. 'Cause if you do, you fail. You fail to achieving your success. Only by continuing you will succeed. You never know when you'll reach your goal & where it's waiting for you, but it sure waits for you somewhere. So if you fall down 2 times, you stand up 3. If you fall down 6 times, you stand up 7. That's what persistence means in my eyes: standing up 1 more time than you fall down.
My conclusion is that only by having persistence, you will achieve your goals, your definition of success, whether it means internal happiness or making a lot of money.