How Persistent Are You With Your Business? Check Yourself!

How Persistent Are You?

Would you like to know your persistence levels? Would you like to find out where you have strengths and weaknesses? Focus your mind on this crucial question: How persistent are you?

Through this article, I would like you to do a self-evaluation exercise on your persistence levels by using the following guiding questions to weigh yourself. Helpfully, use a pen to write d your responses as to what exactly you are. It will hopefully help you know your weaknesses and also your strengths. Consequently, it will also enable you to work on your weaknesses to become a more persistent person. Will you do that?

Well, answer the following 20 questions to discover your strengths and weaknesses. If your strengths outweigh your drawbacks by a wide margin, consider yourself on the right track. But if it’s vice versa, you need to train yourself to become persistent. I believe you will have gained knowledge and learned to be persevering by the end of this simple exercise.

20 Simple Questions to Help You Discover How Persistent You Are

1. Do you have a clear purpose and reasons for what you want to accomplish in your business and life?

2. Do you frequently put off important decisions, plans, and actions?

3. Are you interested in acquiring new knowledge or skills and applying them?

4. Do you find yourself doubtful and undecided on some of the essential decisions you have to make in your life?

5. Do you feel complacent (feeling of self-satisfaction) about your achievements, what you are and what you have?

6. Do you feel indifferent or unresponsive to issues or obstacles you encounter in your life or when doing your business?

7. Do you ever find yourself blaming others for your own mistakes?

8. Do you have a strong desire to do business?

9. Do you create plans to guide you in your work?

10. Do you work according to your written plan, or do things haphazardly?

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11. Do you find yourself willing and decided to quit what you do when faced with some temporary defeat?

12. When people recognize opportunities for you, do you shy away from them?

13. Do you wish instead of taking action?

14. How ambitious are you at becoming financially secure?

15. Do you believe in working for money and riches, or in luck and easy ways to make money?

16. Do you fear creating plans and putting them into action because of being criticized by others?

17. Do you feel passionate and enthusiastic about what you plan to do?

18. Do you believe in being a boss of your own, or do you prefer working for others?

19. Do you believe that you can achieve what you plan to do?

20. Do you pursue your plans, activities and tasks up to the end?

If you took some moments to reflect on the above questions and analyze them, you already know how persistent you are. You have a deeper understanding of your persistence levels. The analysis may have led you to discover your strengths and weaknesses.

Now Check Your Strengths and Weaknesses!

If you answered positively to questions 1, 3, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19 and 20, you have strength in each of them, and a negative response implies a weakness. But if you answered positively to questions 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13 and 16, you have a weakness in each of them, and a negative response reflects your strength. Have you now known how persistent you are? Why don’t you share with us?

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