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The Sacrifice To Success
If you want to grow to your fullest potential, you must be willing to give up some things that you value. You must change. Growing into your potential and filling it out will require becoming someone else—or at least awakening aspects of your personality and character that have until now lain dormant. If you’re willing to do that, then there’s hope for you.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“You work for others until you can work for yourself.
You work for yourself until you can work for others.”
SACRIFICE YOUR COMFORT
If you want to grow to your fullest potential, you must be willing to give up some things that you value. You must change.
Growing into your potential and filling it out will require becoming someone else—or at least awakening aspects of your personality and character that have until now lain dormant. If you’re willing to do that, then there’s hope for you.
If you want to develop into a leader of an organisation, it’s going to cut into your Netflix time. You’re going to have to say "no" to a few parties with friends and to opportunities that you know aren’t aligned with your end goal. You’re going to have to give up some things that you would typically enjoy doing, and remember that you’re making these sacrifices for your future self to thrive.
The reason is that these are typically distractions placed in front of you, distractions that will steer and lead you down a path not aligned with what you truly want. If you want to be in the top 1%, you have to do what 99% of others aren’t willing to do, which most of the time is sacrifice comfort for excellence.
These are short-term sacrifices for long-term success; how do you know what to sacrifice? Anything that isn’t pushing you towards your goals If it adds value to your journey in any shape or form, then it's worth keeping; if it’s holding you back or acting as an anchor, it’s got to go.
This process will be hard; it would be foolish to expect it not to be, but it most definitely will be rewarding.
That being said, you also need to delineate your nonnegotiables—those things that you refuse to sacrifice no matter what. This takes conscious thought and quiet introspection, but it’s all part of the process.
ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:
Analyse yourself to seek out anything that you’re reluctant to sacrifice—things that you know aren’t helping you towards your end goal but, for some reason, you’re still clinging on to. Is it playing that game or drinking? If you don’t know, then ask others around you with an unbiased perspective.
TAKEAWAYS:
If you want to be the best at something, then you can’t have the characteristics of the average person. You have to relentlessly go against the grain and be an outlier among other people.
BOOK OF THE WEEK ⤵️
The Book of the week is ‘The Art Of Persuasion’ by Bob Burg. What is the book about? What if you could get what you want... when you want it...and from whoever has it? The Art of Persuasion teaches you how to get what you want when you want it. You would love to have that ability, right? Get it HERE
CREATOR OF THE WEEK ⤵️
The creator of the week is @Clarkkegley. He’s a US-based self-improvement creator who creates content focused on helping you create the 2.0 version of you. He covers pretty much every topic that you could think of so is definitely someone to watch.
LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️
Everything is learnable. If you ever feel like you don’t know enough to push forward, then find the resources to learn. It’s never a skill issue you have but a determination one.
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