Perseverance

When you are working to your own beat and looking to develop your own destiny, I have found you hit a whole load of interesting obstacles some good which will make you stronger and some some bad which will try and trip you up so badly, so you will stop.
I believe in perseverance it's how I got to everything I have achieved to date from sports selections to business awards.
It is however not always easy when people you care about, don't see the point in what you do and try to persuade you of their way of thinking. It creates doubt within you and often a bit of a sounding board, that is where you truly need someone to be in your corner with you from an objective point of view trying to tease out the reality, the criticism and the support that you require to keep moving forward.
Sometimes we find ourselves at a crossroads and the way forward is not all that clear, yet you have an intuitive idea of which way you should go and then just in case you end up asking a few people for advice and low and behold you end up in a worse situation and a bigger dilemma. I often wonder whether it would have been better if I had moved forward without the advice and adjusted course afterwards.
Playing the mental game of perseverance is like those last couple of miles in the marathon where it is definitely a case of mind over matter for slow runners like me.
How do you play the game, when you are tired and fed up? Just set the goals smaller one more step, one more minute, hour, etc and celebrate the mile markers that you pass on those trips, because they end up the memorable ones.