What kind of freedom do you dream of? What sacrifices would you have to make to achieve it?
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success
1. Being comfortable
The first thing you need to let go is the state of being comfortable. The journey of success is full of struggles, but it can be fun and fulfilling at times.
The point is that if you are not willing to venture out of your comfort zone and do something extraordinary, you will never make a change.
As the word suggests, to become extraordinary, you must be willing to do the extra.
You can’t do what most people do and expect to receive an extraordinary result. If you want to achieve great success, you must do what most people are not willing to do.
As Robert Kiyosaki said, you must be willing to fix the leaky toilets.
Where most people are not willing to do, there are opportunities. But you must have the courage to let go of your pride and to go beyond your comfort zone and do it.
Yes, it is going to be difficult and sometimes, it may seem crazy, but that’s the path that will make you someone different.
Like building up this blog. Most bloggers are not willing to write and publish every day. They make excuses and give up.
They tell themselves that they don’t have the time, or they have other important things to do, but I keep to my publishing schedule. I write and publish every weekday.
Sometimes, I even have to wake up as early as 6:30 AM to write articles for my blog.
So, ask yourself, are you willing to venture out of your comfort zone to work for your goals and dreams?
Are you willing to do the hard stuff and sacrifice your comfort state in order to create something amazing in the future?
If you study the biographies of successful people, you will notice that they all are ordinary people, but they are willing to ditch their comfort level and do something most people are not willing to do.
Great things never came from comfort zones
2. Less play and sleep
The second thing you need to give up is your play and sleep. Yes, success requires massive actions and people who tell you otherwise are just fake.
You can’t achieve greatness without putting in hours of hard work. And to do so, you will have to sacrifice your play and your sleep.
Of course, I’m not asking you to work 20 hours a day and take only 4 hours of sleep. If you follow this routine for years, you will end up destroying your health.
What’s the point of having the wealth or the success but without the health to enjoy them?
You don’t want to go to the extreme, what we want here is to strike a balance. You want to spend more hours working on your goals and dreams, but at the same time, sacrifice a little bit of your play and sleep time.
Grant Cardone said that before 2008, he was playing golf 3 times a week. And he got distracted and started to rest on his laurels. Cardone then made a decision to master his work and if that means his golf game has to suffer, so be it.
Today, Grant Cardone is a top sales expert who has built a $500 million real estate empire and a New York Times Bestselling author.
We all know that we need to put in the hard work and invest time to build the success we want. And the easiest way to find time is to cut down our play and sleep time.
If you see people who have a lot of playtimes, who always binge-watch Netflix, who always on Facebook, or people who seem to be addicted to mobile gaming, trust me, unless that’s their business, they are wasting a lot of time playing and enjoying their present and sacrificing their future.
You want to sacrifice your now to build your future, not the other way round.
3. Negative and unsupportive people
This is a little difficult to swallow. What if people who are closest to you refusing to support you and your dreams?
There will be people who will laugh at your dreams, don’t support you, and people who ridicule you for not being “practical” or “realistic”.
You can choose to listen to them and give up on your goals. Or you can choose to work on your dreams and prove them wrong.
The choice is yours. But this is a tough call especially if the people who are closest to you don’t support you.
You can’t live a successful life if you are being surrounded by negative people who always complain and tell you what you want to achieve is impossible.
Well, you may not have to leave a relationship, that’s the ultimatum. But you have to at least cut-down time spend with negative people.
Try to spend less time with the pessimists and put in more time to build a relationship with other successful people who are positive.