Persistence Training

I counted 17 worship services that I already attended since the time I started trained myself the character of persistence.

It's a common temptation for everybody to feel often times sleepy or else lingering one's mind outside during a church worship service. For me in dealing this one, I decided to prohibit myself from moving any part of the body except my lips and eyes until my set number of verses would be reached.

I began to discipline myself, stiffen my body, at 5 verses initially. Then adding 1 verse for each succeeding worship service time. I'm now at the stage of 11 verses out of the standard of 15 verses. Imagine I almost spent throughout the service time.

Through this, I observed that I able to practice persistence from any distraction, body pain, urge to move, and other wanting. At first its very difficult to do it at once. But as the time passed by and did it one step at a time, I successfully did it with ease.

I believe I could apply this to my real life situation especially my willingness to achieve my financial goals - Financial Freedom. I know it needs a strong character of persistence to keep going forward.