Most
days I go to the campus gym first thing in the morning. Pete is usually never far behind me.
Pete
looks to be in his 80s. He walks with a
very pronounced limp. It’s not easy for
him to get around. Yet, there he is most
every day. He lifts weights. He does walking laps in the shallow end of
the pool. None of this is easy for him.
One
very cold morning last week it was a dark day with freezing rain. It was one of those days when anyone who had
a choice might just decide to stay in bed, eat popcorn, and watch
reruns of NCIS in a warm house. But not
Pete – he was at the gym.
Anytime
I think about being a slug and not starting the day at the gym, I think of
Pete. In fact, recently, every time I
hit some kind of a roadblock and think about quitting, I think of Pete. Because Pete knows that persistence is one of
the things that separates the good from the great.
Former
President Calvin Coolidge said it well:
“Nothing
in the world will take the place of Persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than
unsuccessful men with talent. Genius
will not: unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated
derelicts. Persistence and determination
alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press
On” has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race.”
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