🌳 The Tradeoff Law

If you want to grow to your 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 lay dormant. If you’re willing to do that, then there’s hope for you.

May 22, 2023

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“It feels like we have two threads running through our lives: one pulling us into the world to achieve, the other pulling us back to replenish us. These threads can seem at odds, but really, they enforce each other. It’s not a trade-off between success and sleep.”

Arianna Huffington

THE TRADEOFF LAW

If you want to grow to your 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 lay dormant. If you’re willing to do that, then there’s hope for you.

If you want to develop into a leader of an organization, it’s going to cut into your Netflix time. You’re going to have to say “no” to a few parties with friends and say “no” 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 which most of the time is sacrificing comfort for excellence.

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 un-bias perspective.

TAKEAWAYS:

If you want to be the best at something then you can’t carry the characteristics of the average person. You have to relentlessly go against the grain and be an outlier amongst other people.

BOOK OF THE WEEK —

The book of the week is ‘The Art Of War’ by Sun Tzu. A book written between 475 and 221 B.C.E and is still one of the most-read books to this day. It is a book about the military tactics of ancient warriors used to fight war however the lessons within it are still applicable today and are read by millions. If you want to understand how to win in life, this is a book for you. Read it HERE

CREATOR OF THE WEEK —

The creator of the week is @Joshotusanya, a US-based self-improvement creator. He shares everything from tips to becoming more confident to ways to deal with common situations and is almost like the Google of self-improvement that you didn’t know you needed. Check him out HERE

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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