The Positive Power of Practicing Persistence

About the Book

Have you ever started a project and never finished? Have you ever tackled a challenge only to give up halfway through? Have you ever lost your enthusiasm or confidence midstream? Of course that happens to everyone. The Positive Power of Practicing Persistence provides a powerful jump-start to get us moving again when we get stalled. Readers will walk away with a potent vaccination of never-give-up kind of persistence to employ in every facet of their personal and professional lives. The book opens with an inspiring account of the author’s true life experience of leaving his homeland in India to migrate to a new country and culture. It is an inspiring diary of perseverance and determination to overcome all obstacles and barriers to achieve success in a challenging environment. In The Positive Power of Practicing Persistence, the author has selected fifteen inspiring stories of remarkable individuals who refused to concede their dreams. While some are well-known, others are relatively unknown. Inventors and entertainers, presidents and prisoners, saints and prophets—all are showcased in the book to illustrate that persistence can be applied by any person, anywhere and in any set of circumstances. Personal stories of Thomas Edison, Mother Theresa, Walt Disney, Nelson Mandela, Roger Barrister, J. K. Rowling, and Mahatma Gandhi are included. A couple of lighter stories featuring The Tortoise and the Hare and The Little Engine That Could add another layer of assurance that persistence wins on all levels. The final third of the book deals with the practical how-to-do-it methods to cultivate a greater resolve in our lives. These valuable how-to chapters engage readers in immediate action steps in how to persist in winning that dream job, getting the sale, achieving education goals, eliminating debt, and that all-elusive goal that plagues us all—how to persist in losing weight and getting fit! Other how-to chapters feature the art of teaching persistence to your children. Sprinkled through each chapter are quotes to motivate and inspire readers in their struggle to persist. Each chapter concludes with a key summary statement. The Positive Power of Practicing Persistence is a sure-fire way to reignite that fire within each of us to achieve everything we were designed to do.

About the Author

Hariharan Dharmarajan has almost twenty years’ experience in public, private, and corporate training environments. Author, consultant, public speaker, and senior lecturer, he holds multiple degrees including a master’s in commerce and master’s in education at the National Institute of Education in Singapore, with specialization in psychological measurement and testing. Recipient of numerous prestigious awards, Hariharan was presented the PS21 Distinguished Star Service Award for achieving outstanding standards in service excellence by deputy prime minister, Mr. Teo Chee Hean and PS21 Star Service Award by Mr. Peter Ong, head of Civil Service College. He was also recognized as recipient of the ITE Service Star Award, Excellent Service Award, and Distinguished Service Star Award in 2011. Hariharan is a popular speaker as well as workshop and a conference moderator. Currently he is a resident instructor and senior lecturer and mentor at the Institute of Technical Education in Singapore. Jerry D. Twentier has more than thirty years’ experience in public, private, and corporate training environments. Writer, consultant, and professional public speaker, he holds a degree in education from Texas Tech University. Author of more than forty titles, Twentier resides in Houston, Texas, and is currently active in human relations and performance improvement training for major corporations. He has conducted extensive training throughout the US, Europe, Central and South America, and Southeast Asia. His previous book, The Positive Power of Praising People, has sold more than one hundred thousand copies, translated into six languages. His works have been personally endorsed by Anthony Robbins, Dear Abby, Dr. Denton Cooley, Mary Kay, Ken Blanchard, Pat Boone, and Jack Canfield.