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Perseverance Universal Theme, Brian Beholds

Perseverance is staying on course despite any obstacles. When you stick to your purpose and know that what you are doing has an outcome worth the trouble, you can withstand anything. Strength and patience only grow when they are tested and used.

Key Concepts

To commit means to do, so commitment is deciding to do by fully engaging emotionally or intellectually to a cause or task.

To experience is to try and know by practice, and the knowledge gained from living our lives.

Flexibility is the capacity for movement, physical bending or mental influence. It is the measure of the ability to respond to changes in your external environment.

Hope is a desire for something good, with at least a slight expectation that it might happen. Consciously cultivated confidence in a future event.

Immortality is an exemption from death, it is something that has an unlimited existence.

An injury is the damage caused from harmful or hurtful actions.

Patience is waiting with calmness and without loss of temper through delays, pain, and various other offenses.

A practice is something done frequently, as part of your normal activities.

Resilience is the ability to spring back, to return to function after a loss or setback.

To surrender is to give up control to another authority at its demand.

Key Concepts: commitment, experience, flexibility, hope, immortality, injury, patience, practice, resilience, surrender

Big Ideas

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  • Commitments are the outward ways you show that you care.
  • Accept what you cannot change and take risks to improve everything else.
  • Think of patience as a muscle that you must build and maintain.
  • Practice is the key to everything.
  • Resilient people are calm and steady because they have experienced pain and know they can move through it.

Archetypes and Symbols

perseverance archetypes

Perseverance Archetypes: badger, cactus, crab, cuckoo, knot, manta ray, mountain, ox, peach, seagull, semicolon, spiral, storm, underdog, zinnia

Pain Purpose: suffering, healing, hope and courage

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Broken Colors: the strength of the creative spirit

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Broken Colors, Creativity Novels

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hope

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The Writing Graveyard: abandoned writing ideas

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Brian Tomlin, age 4 typewriter

One of my new year’s resolutions for 2007 was to reconnect to my longstanding desire to write novels. Over the last ten years I have worked as a professional writer doing business writing and publicity for various organizations but somehow none of the personal, fictional projects I’ve started have ever amounted to anything. Over the

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