Continuing my intellectual journey on building and exanding my earlier lessons on opportunity recognition from Dr Maxwell Maltz, starting in the late seventies and traversing throughout the ensuing years of riding on the shoulders of giants before me, here's my next piece of advice:

VIEWPOINT STRATEGY  ~ SEEING THROUGH:

Basically, this is exercising perseverance and persistence in the face of adversity.

Many of us tend to give up easily when we fail in something.

For example, in school, when we got an F in the Chinese Language test or flunked the O Levels, we thought it was the end of the road.

There is no such thing as failure, only feedback.

When we made a horrendous mistake in some parts of our life, we just wanted to give up.

According to numerous motivational experts, there are no such things as mistakes, only learning experiences. But please, don't make the same mistake twice!

In fact, I like what R Buckminster Fuller, recognised as Planet Earth's Friendly Genius & inventor of the geodesic dome, once said:

"There are no failed experiments; only unexpected results!"

If Thomas Edison had not persevered and persisted in experimenting with some ten thousand filament alternatives, we would probably still be using large candles today!

As a matter of fact, Thomas Edision exemplied this "seeing through" phenonemon extremely well, as his wife once observed that, "Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him whether he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say:

'No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.''

[Thanks to community member Chad Alexander for highlighting this fact to me!]

Drawing on my own personal experiences while having navigated the Highway of Life for more than seven decades, I like to sum up the best approach, at least from the standpoint of goal setting and goal achieving:

• to have an umbrella of long-range strategic goals, covering all the major life dimensions,
• followed by a game plan, with a porfolio of specific, prioritised and executable tasks, that you need to accomplish daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and even annually, with your end in mind.

Naturally, you stay focused on your strategic goals, but remain adaptable and flexible in your tactical execution.

At the end of the day:

The ultimate fire test comes from your sweat equity in following up and following through what you have set out to do in your game plan.

This is how your "seeing through" works!

That's all folks for today! Stay tuned for my next Viewpoint Strategy!