MOTIVATION - Creating New Plans

MOTIVATION – Creating New Plans


By Nikki Viljoen of N Viljoen Consulting CC – March 2010

The great Napoleon Hill writes ‘The majority of man meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”

There it is – that word persistence! It’s the one thing that I am convinced that we are all born with. Without it none of us would have learnt how to sit up and crawl, to walk and to run. None of us would be where we are now. None of us would have achieved what we have and certainly none of us would be the people that ultimately we have become.

Sadly, like learning to fear, where we were once ‘fearless’ as children, many of us see, to have lost our ‘persistence’ along the way too.

Sadly, like those of us who literally ‘live in fear,’ those who have lost their ‘persistence’ will not stick around long enough to make anything work, or even long enough to enjoy the fruits of their own endeavors and actually, truth be told, they will set themselves up for their own failures and downfall.


Although we all fail on a daily basis, the measure of the man (or the woman for that matter) is in how we deal with that failure and how we get back up onto our feet. Without persistence the tendency would be to just lie there, perhaps crawl into a little ball and hope that the world will just swallow us up.

So for me the plan is to lose the fear and to lose the lack of persistence and to ensure that every time that I fall down or fail, that I will get up and try again. Try in a different way to see if that will bring success, but very definitely to get up and try again.

What will you do?

Nikki is an Internal Auditor and Business Administration Specialist who can be contacted on 083 702 8849 or nikki@viljoenconsulting.co.za or http://www.viljoenconsulting.co.za