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TRIP Tip Bonus "Tenacity = Strength of Purpose"

Keith Renninson • Oct 19, 2021
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TRIP Tip Bonus Video #5
Tenacity = Strength of Purpose
Hi Keith Renninson “the Tenacity Expert” here with a new video on my TRIP System.  Remember that TRIP stands for: tenacity, resilience, imagination, and purpose.

  • How strong are your purposes in your life?
  • Do you have what it takes to see them through to a successful completion?
  • How dense is your conviction?

Sometimes I use a thesaurus to help me look for words that are synonymous for a topic I want to write about.  Today, I saw a comparison that I’d not seen before, tenacity was listed with “strength of purpose”.  That fit in perfectly with what I’ve been teaching with these videos for over a year. TRIP obviously includes both tenacity and purpose.

I had often thought of purpose with other words like depth, conviction, and charity, but strength of purpose made perfect sense the more I thought about it.  When thinking about the strength of a fabric or metal you often hear about its tensile strength.  That’s the amount of stress it would take to make it fail or break.  When we set a purpose in life like a goal or mission, we fully expect to achieve it.  But then life intervenes, we run up against obstacles we didn’t expect, and our resolve starts to weaken.  This is where some questions arise:
  • Do you have a high tensile score or a weak one?  
  • How strong are you?
  • How strong do you want to be might be the better question?
Tenacity is that trait that pushes you on when others start to fall by the wayside.  It’s that feeling deep inside that tells you that you can accomplish this, you have what it takes and to keep going because the end result is something that you really desire.

Having purpose in life makes it worth living.  Having tenacity (strength of purpose) ensures that you will be successful in whatever you pursue.  Sure, there will be failures along the way and the purpose may alter in some small ways, but if you keep the specifics firmly planted in your mind the payoff will be seeing it come to life long after your peers gave up hope.

Well, that’s it for this blog, I hope you will give some thought to your “strength of purpose” and be tenacious in your drive to success.  Have you checked out my TRIP Technique (TM) Assessment to see how you score at tenacity, resilience, imagination, or purpose?  Go here!

Remember to take a TRIP for a lifetime, not a trip of a lifetime.

Goodbye,

Keith......

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