Yes! Perseverance is included.
“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance”. Samuel Johnson
Diligent comes from the Latin diligere, which means to value highly and take delight in, but in English, it has always meant; careful and hard-working. If you're a diligent worker, you don't just bang away at your job; you earnestly try to do everything right.
The feeling of nobody syndrome
As entrepreneurs we are perseverant, nobody will dare to say the opposite otherwise we wouldn't be entrepreneurs. But what about being creative and diligent when you feel like you are nobody? Or when someone does everything to make you feel like nobody?
Being diligent, does it help?
My mother used to say that a diligent person will always be well-accepted, everywhere. So, I gave myself the task of becoming diligent, starting by deciding to be willing to serve in any case, and under almost any circumstance, to be well-accepted by her. The result: in any case and everywhere I am always solicitous.
Then if you feel like you are a nobody and still need to be creative, being diligent is the first step, even though some people will confuse you, and your willingness to serve with their servant. And some will lose their “respect or admiration” for you, just because you are willing to serve.
Allow me to share another of my life stories; My mother had a neighbor, who was always nice, I could say, more than nice with me, as she knew I was an engineer. You know, a kind of higher status than most of the people around her, as they had no academic education, her included. But one day to keep on track with my decision to become diligent, I helped my mother with her dirty clothes. In my country, we used to wash clothes by hand. When she saw me washing clothes in the middle of the yard under the rain, she didn’t say the classical overacted “Hello! Nice to see you” Instead, she made a non-very funny face, and she said; so, you wash clothes by hand too! Since that day she tried to treat me as rudely as she possibly could. This lesson had the opposite result of what my mother used to say. But I didn’t give up on that experience, and I still have no hesitation to be solicitous.
“Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence”. Buddha
When I was working as a technical support engineer at a bank corporation, they used to request night guards. Asking for volunteers the boss usually had to wait for several minutes until somebody raised their hand. Yes! That hand was several times mine. My coworkers were men and the unique lady beside me was single and with no kids. I had a little busier life than they but that wasn’t an obstacle for me. After a couple of months one day at the meeting where the boss selected the night guard, where my coworkers were certain of being free of that duty, I didn’t raise my hand and I said to the boss; as we have the role of highly qualified operators instead of specialized engineers for the night guards, I am sure that you can perfectly manage the teamwork to cover the guards, don’t you, boss?
I didn’t have to make any other night guard since then.
The Price of Being Diligent
“Creativity doesn’t come from inspiration it comes from perseverance, diligence, and discipline” Scarlett Marcel
It sounds like being diligent can become unfair and inconvenient, I won’t lie to you it can sometimes be like that, however, being diligent took me closer than my coworkers to work directly with those who owned the higher hierarchy positions like sub-directors, directors, CEOs and owners of the companies I was working for. They were the ones who broke that hierarchy to address me directly to be assigned to a special task. In a few words, to be diligent is to become the person who performs the tasks that others don’t want to do.
And guess what! many times as you do what the others don’t want to, you get the advantage of learning, performing, practicing, listening, and watching what they don’t, which eventually makes you grow, earn confidence, and be more creative. I will dare to say you become; the lucky duck.
“Diligence is the mother of good luck”. Benjamin Franklin
As I was covering the night guards, I made friends with the operators, and they taught me about the procedures that the banks run every night. In the sands of destiny, one day, I had to attend another of the classical emergencies that used to happen at the bank in the middle of the night. You won’t believe this! The failed procedure was running a library of more than a million transactions displayed on the screen array as fast as you can imagine, then I said; stop here! And I pointed to one line of that array. Open this library! I said to the operator. When he opened the library, we discovered that that library wasn’t actualized correctly, and was responsible for the entire procedure failure. Can you imagine that of more than one million transactions, the library I pointed out was the only one that the quality assurance department didn't actualize correctly?
That is what I call the lucky duck!
If you have read my blog post “Human Emotions and Business! Does it Matter?” you probably remember this quote:
“What we think and how we think determine what happens inside us; then our thoughts will determine our feelings and our feelings will determine our actions.” - Scarlett Marcel
Can somebody or a circumstance make YOU feel like nobody? Or are YOU who decide unconsciously to generate that feeling as your outcome?
Do you feel that sometimes your brain can't bring out your ideas and your creativity is stuck on it?
At The School of Your Pass for a Better You, we offer a class to learn about YOU! We teach about Self-knowledge, and Self-understanding, where you will learn to recognize your strengths and weaknesses.
Even though you feel like you are nobody by being diligent eventually you will feel good and confident in your skin no matter what, and that, my friend, unleashes your creativity.
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