Determination comes from persistence, and persistence is being able to sustain motivation over a prolonged period. It remains constant regardless of your current state. It’s when you are persistent that you have gained determination.

Leadership can be broken down into so many components and each element of leadership needs specific focus. When it comes to having difficult conversations with members of your staff, that’s an element of leadership that requires motivation, patience, consistency, courage, and communication skills.

Do you ever start projects or tasks with motivation but lose engagement and interest to finish? What about working toward a goal and for whatever reason, you get off track and never complete the goal? Or you think through a plan, write it out, start executing it and quit without knowing that you did. From my perspective, these are clear examples of self-sabotage.