An over-concern for what we are going to report moves us from what we really need to be accomplishing. Sometimes we value the product more than the process. Process is important. We need to learn to suffer with the poor rather than handing them a solution in terms of money. In the process, relationships are developed, world views are changed.
Perseverance can become a model that dispels fatalism.
Success is hard to measure in western terms. We offer solutions. But we don't deal with real needs in a credible process involving the people. We tend to quantify in order to give the impression of success. We need to examine the reasons we do things.