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30 REASONS PEOPLE FAIL, Lack of Persistence || Coach Raphael Djine, iLAED Global

11 Feb 2022 · 2 min

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In this motivational monologue, Coach Raphael Djine repeatedly emphasizes that a lack of persistence is a primary cause of failure in personal relationships, business ventures, and personal projects. He illustrates how people abandon marriages, friendships, businesses, and even construction projects when challenges arise, equating this tendency to a destructive force that can ruin one’s life. Djine distinguishes between strategic pivots—adjusting the approach while staying on course—and outright quitting, urging listeners to adopt a nail‑like toughness: commit to a goal, persist through obstacles, and only change tactics when necessary, not abandon the objective. He cites great leaders who succeed by persisting despite repeated obstacles, concluding with a strong call to be "very, very persistent."

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Point number nine: lack of persistence, lack of persistence, lack of persistence. The lack of persistence will pull, will push you down, will destroy what you have built, will destroy your life. You must be persistent. A lot of people, you know, whatever this when they start something and it get tough, guess what? They give up. When the marriage get tough, boom, divorce. When the friendship, there's a little fluctuation in friendship, boom, I'm out. They start business, it get tough. The IRS visit you or a thief visit you, boom, I'm out of this business. Your equipment go back, I'm out. Lack of persistence. You start a house, you never finish the roof. You don't put a window. Like, oh man, this thing wore me out. You rather go and start a new project and not persist and finish what you start. You have to be tough like nail. When you say, this is what I want to do, this is what I'm going to do, do it. It doesn't matter what it takes. I'm not saying not to pivot. You may use a— you may say, well, I want to leave Dallas and fly to Atlanta. And when you take off with your plane, the storm is so heavy and you have to go around. That's a pivot. But you don't give up. You can change approach. But you stay on a course. You stay on a course. You keep pressing on until you have the desired result. Persistence. Matter of fact, any great leader, any great leader, they can tell you that they really break through after many obstacles. Obstacles will always present themselves, but if you are not persistent, persistent enough, you will give up. So be persistent. Very, very persistent.