The opposite of perseverance is procrastination.

Perseverance means you never quit.

Procrastination usually means you never get started.

Although I consider the inability to finish something to be a form of procrastination.

Ask people why they procrastinate.

And you'll often hear something like this, I'm a perfectionist.

Everything has to be just right before I can get down to work.

No distractions, not too much noise, no telephone calls interrupting me.

And of course I have to be feeling well physically too.

I can't work when I have a headache.

The other end of procrastination being unable to finish also has a perfectionist explanation.

I'm just never satisfied.

I'm my own harshest critic.

If all the eyes aren't dotted and all the tees aren't crossed,

I just can't consider that I'm done.

That's just the way I am and I'll probably never change.

Excuses sound best to the people that's making them up.

You got every excuse in the world.

That's why you think.

That's why nothing change and nothing will change.

We are being raised in a generation of people that come up with every excuse in the book

as to why they are not winning.

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