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SHEER TENACITY – CRUCIAL TO A CAREER SUCCESS
Marian Baltazar
Class of 1980, University of the Philippines College of Manila
AB Political Science
In the pursuit of your ambition or dreams in life, I believe that a goal-oriented individual would not allow
people, events or situations that they encounter to get in their way for that person to attain a career success.
Instead, sheer... tenacity would then play a crucial part for every person to pursue a career success. This kind of
people is very much committed into what they do to the point of taking full responsibility in their life and in
their career success, therefore, this is what makes them tenacious. They have set their minds into doing
something and believe in themselves that anything could be possible under the sun, that is, they can do
anything. For that matter, there is nobody who can insinuate that you cannot do anything that you dream of
or have wanted to do so right from the start. They have found what their purpose in life is and have pursued it
tenaciously.
Tenacious people are committed people who are relentlessly focused on achieving their goal or what they
really want. They are entwined to the fact that they are very much responsible for their own life and career
success. These are people who are willing to do every necessary step for them to succeed and they are also
considered to be high goal-setters who will gladly do anything to achieve what they aim for. Considerably, these
are persons who are highly rational for they know pretty well that along the line, they will encounter a lot of
difficulties and they are very much willing to weather the afflictions in life. Yes, they are very optimistic people
taking things positively, who are intently focused on their goal.
How many people do you see nowadays who are downright tenacious? How many of them do we chance
upon who actually never stop no matter what lies ahead of them? Instead, tenacious people choose to move
forward towards their goals, to realize their dreams, ambitions in life and career success. Seldom indeed do we
find people who are vent on staking out everything to be successful. Only tenacious people are explicit in doing
such things.
So what are we waiting for? Let us hop in the vehicle of tenacity, be witty enough to be tenacious in your own
right and prod upon the trail of success. Be the person that you really want to be, unmindful of the
circumstances that surround you and live in oblivion of life’s adversities. After all, the saying, “Try and try until
you succeed” proves to be true to the majority. Do not quit, because this would only mean giving up your
career success dreams. Go for what you believe! A person can become successful through working intelligently,
having that drive to pursue his ambitions tenaciously. Talent, hard work, determination and persistence are
tantamount to sheer tenacity which proves to be crucial to a career success.
Questions for discussion:
1. Are you a committed type of person displaying the characteristics of tenacity? Explain further.
2. Are you having second thoughts on being tenacious to live your dream? Why or why not?
3. Do you press yourself hard towards attaining your goal by being tenacious? How?
4. Do you agree that sheer tenacity is crucial to a career success? Justify your answer.
5. What does tenacity mean to you? Elaborate on your answer.