Learning to Keep Going, Even When you have no Inspiration or Strength Left!

I have often written about how perseverance can be the most important attribute to have when trying to succeed at something.

There are a lot of times when the world seems to me moving in a negative direction where we just want to throw in the towel and give up. We get really tired from trying to grind out something every day, even while we barely see any measure of success come our way.

I was part of Steemit in the early days when we were creating posts and watching the Steem token sink and sink, and sink all the way down to just seven cents.

It was definitely very tempting to just give up the whole thing as a giant waste of time!

I learned a lot about the importance of perseverance from the years I spent in the retail store business. Since it is getting quite close to Christmas, I found myself reminded of those days, earlier today.

You see, since we had a "gifty" sort of business, and I was one of the proprietors, we decided to maximize customer convenience... by starting to stay open 7 days a week from the start of November, and then longer hours from Thanksgiving till Christmas.

Let me tell you, you end up with very little strength left after a few weeks of going to work at 9:00 every morning, and closing the doors at maybe 9:15 every night, 7 days a week, week after week. 85-hour work weeks are exhausting!

Of course, I am very grateful to not be working such long hours anymore, and I was always very grateful when we arrived to January 2nd, and we returned to being open 10-6, six days a week!

But one of the things I learned from the experience is how to "keep grinding it out," even when you have very little energy or inspiration left... because "difficult times" are almost always a fairly temporary situation.

So we might be sitting around feeling sad because the price of Steem keeps declining, and it seems like we get less and less in rewards for our posts... but where as so-called "Bear Markets" are difficult, they are almost certainly also temporary. And that's what we have to keep reminding ourselves!

Now, while on the subject of "declining," here's a question for everyone out there, in Steemlandia:

Does anybody know whether there's any news or updates in fixing the glitch that has resulted in TRX rewards no longer making their way to our wallets?

Thanks for reading, and have a great week!

How about YOU? Are you good at working through difficult times, where everything seems like HARD WORK? Any idea what's going on with Tron rewards? Do leave a comment — share your experiences — be part of the conversation!

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