This list of ten keys to a successful life is simple, but it sure ain’t easy. Each one can take a lifetime to master. But, with persistence and patience, anyone can cultivate these traits–––things like persistence, which actually creates kind of a conundrum if you’re having trouble developing these skills. But, if you rely on some of the other values like sacrifice, discipline, and effort, you can build up your persistence. More importantly, though, if you work on those three, you’ll probably be pretty successful, so maybe you can pay people to be persistent for you.

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” is a cliche we’ve all heard from our earliest days, but if you’re in the business of content creation, it’s more important than ever to heed that advice. Nick Whitmore of ContentWriting.org explains five ways persistence pays off working in the online world at Copyblogger, providing the …