Perseverance. Tenacity. Stick-to-it-iveness. Patience. All these words are driving at the same thing: DON’T GIVE UP.

Now I don’t particularly like negative statements, so let me reword this. Keep on keeping on. Hang in there. Keep on truckin’. There, that’s better, because you see, I want to be your favorite cheerleader...

In Part 1 of this article, we talked about reaching our goals as largely a matter of following through on desire, vision and action. The difficulty for most of us lies in continuing to believe that our efforts will ever bear fruit when these fruits have not yet begun to materialize.

Jonathan Swift said it best. “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”

What does this word really mean anyway? According to Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition, discipline, as a noun, is defined primarily as punishment. My, but that has a harsh ring to it. An alternate definition is self-control. Well, that’s a little closer to my idea...