Webster’s Dictionary defines endurance as “the ability to withstand hardship or adversity, especially the ability to sustain prolonged stressful effort or activity” and “the act or an instance of enduring or suffering.” Synonyms of endurance are permanence or duration. When I moved to Tennessee to...
Each year the Character Council solicits applications for an annual scholarship. Students often write about determination, hard work, and patience. For the first time, one of the applicants wrote about availability, stating: “Availability means being able to be present whenever goals need to be...
Knowing how important right timing is in accomplishing right actions. When speaking of speak of my oldest son, I often jokingly refer to him as Thing 1…born on New Year’s Day, 1/1. But…then there was Thing 2 who arrived years later on 2/22. The year our second son was born we plotted a calendar...
Why get up day after day and go to work? Why do the laundry? Why budget and pay bills? These tasks bring order to the business of life. Some people don’t clean their home. They don’t pick up after themselves. Orderliness can be described as “arranging myself and my surroundings to achieve greater...
DETERMINATION: firmness of purpose; resoluteness; strength of character; single-mindedness Determination is simply not giving up. No matter how hard things get, or how badly you want to just give up, you keep on going. Sometimes you just want to let go, when it seems like what you are going for is...
