Nebraska Woman Learns to Row, Then Becomes First Female to Cross the Atlantic Alone in 3,000 Mile Race
#persistence
Sometimes doing well and outshining someone doesn’t lift you up—it just triggers their ego. Bishkek taught me that the talent you bring can be suppressed, not celebrated.
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The gap between where you are
and where you want to be
is filled with every time
you GIVE UP.
“If I fits I sits”. Kitty shenanigans early Monday morning help lighten the mood. He is hunting Q-tips in the trash. The silly thing. Hang on friends, hang on. #cats #pets #resilience #persistence
How to Avoid Common Pitfalls With JPA and Kotlin
#jakarta #java #jetbrains #jpa #kotlin #persistence
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/01/how-to-avoid-common-pitfalls-with-jpa-and-kotlin/
A quotation from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yes, I am personally the victim of deferred dreams, of blasted hopes, but in spite of that I close today by saying I still have a dream, because, you know, you can’t give up in life. If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) American clergyman, civil rights leader, social activist, preacher
Sermon (1967-12-24), “A Christmas Sermon on Peace,” Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta
More about this quote: wist.info/king-martin-luther/6…
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#hypotheses_org #persistence #LongTermArchiving #Bibliotheken
Recent research reveals that motivation isn't one-dimensional. High grit alone doesn't predict sport success – you need alignment between internal drive, clear goals, and supportive structures.
#PerformancePsychology #Grit #AthleteMotivation #SportPsychology #Persistence
Endure: Mastering Persistence and Grit – Unleash Your Inner Warrior
Discover 15 hidden, powerful truths on mastering persistence, grit, and unwavering belief in yourself can transform your life. Awaken your inner warrior and endure challenges with spiritual strength.
In a world that glorifies instant success, endurance is your secret weapon. More details… https://spiritualkhazaana.com/web-stories/endure-mastering-persistence-and-grit/
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"Real progress is often invisible, boring, and repetitive. Don't mistake the quiet for regression!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
It's often about the small steps, not the big leaps.
The quiet progress you make, not the noisy success you relish.
The effort you put in daily, not the audacious stretch goal you choose to chase once.
Showing up all the time, not just when it suits you.
Measuring your progress by what really matters - not by what you think matters.
Some people chase success with reckless abandon, thrashing about with wild activity.
Others just show up.
And put in the work.
Success is about patience.
It's often quiet, slow, and deliberate.
Unseen.
But it's there.
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Futurist Jim Carroll is working on a longer-term timeline these days!
**#Progress** **#Patience** **#Consistency** **#Persistence** **#QuietSuccess** **#SmallSteps** **#ShowUp** **#Discipline** **#Effort** **#Growth** **#Dedication** **#Journey** **#Commitment** **#SlowAndSteady** **#Resilience** **#Focus** **#Determination** **#DailyWork** **#Mindset** **#Trust** **#Process** **#Invisible** **#Deliberate** **#Perseverance** **#Onwards**
11-Year-old’s White House Dream Comes True and He Pays it Forward 30 Years Later in Heartwarming Full-Circle
Doors
There is something about doors. They are curiously inevitable. Largely unchanged long into history, they can let their users in or out, keep them safe or keep them prisoner; let them rest or let them run.
Our senses are only the doors of our perception; what we see or hear is as much story as data. Turn off the processing, the algorithms of interpretation that make us who we are, and the crazy lights of elsewhere will threaten to wipe all we ever knew like words written in the steam across a bathroom window. That’s the hope and the fear of psychedelics; but we cannot know what is real by simply breaking down the doors of what it is to be human.
All we are is the infinitely delicate pattern our minds trace on the fields and particles of our fleeting scrap of what is there. Beneath it all the ground holds, beyond beginning or end. The doors we are given are ways in to what is real, our own dear and transitory lives; they let us in, not shut us out. Stillness, patience, the gentle breath: these are the ways to the fields of wonder, the steadiness of being.
#AldousHuxley #consciousness #contemplative #persistence #stillness #WilliamBlake
The treasures of the storehouse
In the past I have all too often found myself caught up frantically in the search for solutions, answers to dilemmas, where to go and what to do. When I was younger I so frequently struck out into uncharted and risky places, unhelpful relationships, odd career moves, simply in order to do something, get somewhere – anywhere – rather than live with uncertainty and indecision.
When I became involved with the Christian contemplative tradition, I encountered for the first time the concept of leaving such things “in God’s hands”; the idea being that in the fullness of time the Holy Spirit would convey the answer to the dilemma, directly or (more likely!) indirectly to the waiting mind. Now there is a very real benefit to be gained by such an approach, regardless of the prescribed methodology. The issue is left in abeyance for the time being, and out of the glare of anxious attention a solution may arise; or else the heart may become reconciled to the lack of one.
Of course there are alternative ways to explain this process to ourselves. “According to the left-brain, right-brain dominance theory, the left side of the brain is considered to be adept at tasks that are considered logical, rational, and calculating. By contrast, the right side of the brain is best at artistic, creative, and spontaneous tasks.” (Eagle Gamma, ‘Left Brain vs. Right Brain: Hemisphere Function’ in Simply Psychology, October 2023) So the problem the left brain has been desperately scratching at is left unsolved, until the patient, creative right brain has done its subtle work.
Needless to say, there is a Buddhist approach as well. Kaira Jewel Lingo, in an extract published in Tricycle Magazine:
These deeper life questions can’t be resolved at the level of the mind but must be entrusted to a different, deeper part of our consciousness. Thay suggests we consider this big question as a seed, plant it in the soil of our mind and let it rest there. Our mindfulness practice in our daily lives is the sunshine and water that the seed needs to sprout so that one day it will rise up on its own, in its own time. And then we’ll know the answer to our question without a doubt.
But we must leave the seed down in the soil of our mind and not keep digging it up to see if it is growing roots. It won’t grow that way! It is the same with a deep and troubling question. We ask our deeper consciousness to take care of it and then let go of our thinking and worrying about it. Then in our daily lives we practice calming, resting, and coming home to ourselves in the present moment, and that will help the seed of our question to ripen naturally and authentically. This process cannot be rushed or forced. It may take weeks, months, or years. But we can trust that the seed is “down there,” being tended to by our deeper consciousness, and one day it will sprout into a clear answer.
In Buddhist psychology this part of our mind is called store consciousness. This is because it has the function of storing our memories and all the various mind states we can experience in latent, sleeping form. For example, maybe you’ve experienced trying to solve a problem or find an answer to something that perplexes you. You think hard and circle round and round in your mind, but you feel you don’t get anywhere. Then you let the question go, and suddenly when you least expect it, inspiration or helpful ideas come to you in a time of rest, and you just know what to do. That is store consciousness operating. It is working on the problem for you while your day-to-day consciousness rests. Store consciousness works in a very natural and easeful way and is much more efficient than our thinking mind. When wisdom arises from store consciousness, it feels right in the body and we no longer have doubts.
But waiting for the answer to arise can be challenging at times, because we may really want to know the answer. We may find ourselves feeling deeply insecure and fearful if we don’t know what to do, which path to choose. We worry we will make the wrong choice, and we catastrophize about what will happen if we take this or that direction. It’s hard to find our way if we continue to feed this worry and fear. We can recognize that we are not helping the situation and stop. Returning to this moment, anchoring ourselves in our body, we will find the solidity of the home inside of us, which is capable of helping us find our way, if only we let it, and if we can let go of trying to figure out the future in our heads.
Whichever way we choose to understand it, the process – which can only take place in the heart’s stillness, whether through the explicit practice of mindfulness or by some analogous means – is profound and trustworthy. In fact, it seems often to be transformative, not only of our own lives but, in a deep and unexpected way, of the lives of those around us.
In an interview, also in Tricycle magazine, the Buddhist LGBT+ pioneer Larry Yang says,
As activists, we can be invested in the goal or specific change. Take your time. Experiment with the teachings yourself and see if they assist you to navigate the complexities and stresses of your own life. Explore for yourself how the impact of the mindfulness and heart practices can influence your work. Please feel invited to exploring freedom through the process, rather than the outcome. Freedom is distinct and different from justice. Working toward justice and equity are indispensable activities to level the disparities that create oppression. However, freedom is not dependent on external circumstances—not even justice. Can we do the difficult and hard work of social justice without our hearts becoming difficult and hard as well? Can we deeply engage with working toward justice from a place of inner freedom within our minds and hearts and use wisdom and compassion as forces to change the world? That is the invitation that I am passionate about exploring for myself…
Creating the stillness in the vortex of our lives helps us to create some sense of calm and tranquility in a world that seems to be crazy with violence and fragmented in its differences and conflicts. As we transform our own experience and relationship to our realities, we cannot help but affect those around us in radiating circles into the larger culture. These moments of freedom and transformation begin to change and elevate the consciousness and awareness of the world.
#awareness #community #EagleGamma #illumination #KairaJewelLingo #LarryYang #persistence #stillness #Tricycle #trust #unknowing
80-yo Retired Teacher Bests Disease and Injury to Become Oldest Female Hiker to Finish Appalachian Trail
Plain ordinary mind
In her beautiful essay The Gift of Contemplation, Vanessa Zuisei Goddard writes:
In The Book of Privy Counseling, the anonymous author—who also wrote the well-known Cloud of Unknowing—says: “… There is no name, no experience, and no insight so akin to the everlastingness of truth than what you can possess, perceive, and actually experience in the blind loving awareness of this word, is.”
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The practice of contemplation, therefore, creates a space in which to work with our resistance so that we can choose is. And more, it gives us the opportunity to fall in love with it. Because we don’t have to like all aspects of reality. Like or dislike have nothing to do with contemplation. Yet we can learn to love reality’s isness, which means honoring ourselves and others and things and beings as we and they are. From this perspective, contemplation is the profound practice of loving what is, of resting in and into what is, of not distancing ourselves from ourselves and the world.
Yesterday, I wrote of the dimensionless metaphysical ground that is Meister Eckhart’s Istigkeit. I know this kind of thing can sound wilfully abstruse, and yet it is truly the simplest thing; well, except that it is no thing! To sit still, aware of nothing except what is – whether the sound of tyres on the road beyond the garden, or the continual appearance of unsought dreamy thoughts, or the solid floor beneath – is as plain and ordinary a thing as one could find to do. To remain merely aware of whatever enters the field of consciousness is not even slightly complicated, and yet it is the work of a lifetime.
To learn to love what plainly is, as Goddard says, is the foundation of equanimity, the amor fati of the Stoics. And yet, this ordinary “resting in and into what is” is the very ground of isness itself. There is no other; and yet this unvarnished awareness is itself the most utterly fundamental reality, the open ground itself, before all differentiation. It is only.
#awareness #CloudOfUnknowing #contemplative #persistence #stillness #stoicism #VanessaZuiseiGoddard
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https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1q26j23/got_rejected_by_34_investors_number_35_said_yes/
AWSDoor: Persistence on AWS: https://www.riskinsight-wavestone.com/en/2025/09/awsdoor-persistence-on-aws/
Windows Persistence Explained: Techniques, Risks, and What Defenders Should Know: https://cofense.com/blog/windows-persistence-explained-techniques,-risks,-and-what-defenders-should-know
Elizabeth McCracken on Writing and Persistence
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