Are You Willing To Sacrifice For Success

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Success requires sacrifice. Are you willing to make the sacrifice to attain success? The sacrifices won’t be forever, but they must be made. Everyone who has achieved great levels of success has had to make choices in order to get there. Last week I asked how do you react to adversity. Today I want to discuss how

Sacrifice Is Necessary For Success

Anyone who desires success must make sacrifices. Life has entirely too many distractions that eat away at your time and focus. Today’s life is too fast paced, whether it’s family events, work functions, or any number of other constant demands that interfere with your progress. These distractions take many different forms and they exist constantly. The good thing is that many of these sacrifices are short-term.

Successful people talk of making sacrifices for a season. You have to be willing to make sacrifices in the beginning to build momentum towards your end goal. Once you reach a certain level of achievement, the momentum you’ve built starts to carry you forward with less dedicated effort on your part. That’s when you begin to have the ability to focus on the other areas that are important to you. The whole idea of achieving success is that you create time and ability to spend with those who are truly important to you doing what is truly important to you. But you can’t get there without making sacrifices.

Anybody who’s ever attained any significant level of success has been forced to make choices. Everyone has family and work distractions and other things they would rather be doing. The difference between those who are successful and everyone else is the successful make the necessary sacrifices to prevent the distractions from derailing their journey towards success. This is one area that’s non-negotiable. You have to choose what you’re going to focus on and how you’re going to spend your time. The good thing is, the choice is yours.

Choose wisely. Choosing to pursue success comes at a price, but the resulting freedoms are worth the sacrifices. You’ll end up with more time and ability to do the things that you love, but you may have to put your focus on other activities in the short-term. Make the sacrifices and pursue success, and you’ll be able to do anything you want to do. Until next time…

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  1. Mitch Mitchell  June 7, 2012

    Hey Barry,

    Being me, I have to admit having an issue with this question in general, which I’ve actually addressed in my past.

    Zig Ziglar gives a talk where he tells the story of a young man that comes to him and says that the guy he reports to is his hero and he wants to be just like him. He states the guy has sacrificed everything to be successful and that’s what he wants in life.

    So Zig starts asking him a series of questions about the guy and his life, and every one of them is negative: never saw his kids, divorced from 2 wives, treats everyone bad, has ulcers, never smiles, etc. Zig then asks him if that’s really what he sees success being and if that’s really the role model he wants to follow.

    Yes, success takes work, but just what are we willing to have people sacrifice? If you don’t want family, friends, or health, then what’s the point of success anyway? Does this mean you shouldn’t work as hard as possible? Not at all; but it does mean having some perspective as to what’s really the best overall strategy would be a great thing.

    Just my two cents. ;-)
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    • Barry Overstreet  June 7, 2012

      Hi Mitch!

      It’s nice to see you around here again!

      I totally agree that one must have both perspective and balance in all endeavors they pursue. Without either of these, an individual becomes too single-minded, which has a whole host of negative consequences as a result.

      Sacrifices must be made in order to achieve. All of life requires sacrifice, some of it great sacrifice. But, one must also keep focus on what the end objective is from a macro viewpoint. It’s with the overall objectives in mind that a determination is made as to which sacrifices are worthwhile and which ones are not. Failing to keep that focus and perspective leads to a situation such as in your example. There’s nothing about that example that I would classify as a success. Any positive outcomes achieved are unequivocally negated by the negative consequences. Quite simply, too much sacrifice is just as detrimental as too little sacrifice.

      My point with this article was that people must be willing to walk away from some things they’d rather be doing in the short-term in order to focus on productive tasks. The end goal is to have the freedom and ability to partake in much more of the recreational activities as a result of the success.

      Your two cents is always welcome around! I value your opinion and appreciate your consistent efforts to bring value through your continued commenting. I hope you have an outstanding end of the week and weekend, my friend, and we’ll chat again soon.

      ~Barry

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