Sacrifice
Do you understand the law of sacrifice? What are you willing to give up? What will it take for you to get to the next level? Success costs and to be successful in your business you will have to let things go. To build wealth you have to change your spending habits. To lose weight you have to change your eating habits. That calls for sacrifice. People don’t want to sacrifice. They want it all by gaining everything without losing anything.
It doesn’t work that way. To learn how to swim you have to jump in the water and to learn how to ride a bike you must be willing to fall. To be successful in business you need to work. That means sacrificing time, money, and your energy. Entrepreneurs will work 80 hours per week to avoid getting a 40-hour-a-week job. Now that is sacrifice.
The Law of Sacrifice
The Law of Sacrifice states that to gain something of greater value you have to give something up of lesser value. Simple concept but hard to implement. If you want to read an hour every day you have to give up something. It could be TV, social media, video games, or sleep. That hour has to come from somewhere.
Do you want to become debt-free? What are you willing to give up? If you are deep in debt keeping the same spending habits will not solve your problem. More income will not solve your problem. Becoming frugal, eliminating expenses, and coming up with a debt pay-down plan is the solution. Are you willing to give up short-term pleasures to become debt-free?
What Are You Willing to Give up
Now to the main point of this article. What are you willing to give up to be successful in your business? What time, money, and dedication will you invest? How successful do you want to be? Work, discipline, and diligence are things you have to accept.
With work, you have to endure the ups and downs of running a business. You have to show up until it can run without you. Discipline is showing up every day despite the obstacles that come up. Discipline is reading books every day, listening to audio programs, and doing the mundane things that make you successful. Diligence is doing it every day and doing it well.
These are things you will endure to get to the next level. Decide now what needs to go. You will realize that some of your associates will have to depart from your life. I am not saying get rid of your friends. But they will play a lesser role as you build new relationships. Just like you have to leave your high school coach behind and work with your college coach. This will happen with your relationships.
Your goals and outcomes will change. Will you forgo your own methods of operation when new and improved methods can get you to your destination faster? Sacrifice also means giving up on certain projects that you love but don’t fit into your plans anymore. It’s like trading your favorite player because he doesn’t fit into the team’s strategy.
Self Control
Self-control and self-mastery are the tools that will help you with the law of sacrifice. Learning how to budget, be frugal, save, and invest in your business all have elements of self-denial.
Delayed gratification, resisting the impulse to get rich quickly, jump ship, or go after the bigger better deal depends on your level of self-control. Delayed gratification is your new friend and it is loaded with self-discipline.
People look for the path of least resistance when it comes to hard work. They are not willing to sacrifice for the short term in order to prosper in the long term. Self-control will help you embrace the law of sacrifice and you will thank me for it.
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