Daily Gratitude: This is the one most important lesson anyone can tatoo on their forehead.

Persistence is what it takes. You can read or see (via YouTube) stories about the “greats” in any field and how they often sucked at what they were trying to do but just kept at it. And eventually after lots and lots of practice, they succeeded and then after even more practice they became great.

You know I’m a Yankees fan so of course one example has to be of a Yankee (and actually it’s two examples)

When Derek Jeter first came up to the big leagues he made a lot of errors and wasn’t “the star” his scout predicted ….yet….but take a look at the progression of his career and you’ll see how persistent effort on his part helped him improve season after season. Now No one thinks about his rookie year.

Yogi Berra was definitely nothing to write home about in his first year. In fact, he was pretty bad. But he wanted to be the best and he wanted to be a Yankee so he worked his butt off in the off-season and came back in year 2 so much better. And now he’s often a household name and not just because of his famous sayings.

Don’t give up. Every time you do something, you get better at it. So just keep doing it and you’ll keep getting better and better. You don’t have to be brilliant or Mensa level intelligent. You just have to keep working. Can you do that?