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If success were easy, then we would all be successful. In order to achieve success, we often find ourselves in conflict between choices and options. Do we pursue those tasks which bring us closer to our goals and objectives, or do we take it easy and relax. Watch TV or take a nap? These are often options, where we become conflicted between what we want to do versus what we need to do.
Some common decisions include do I sleep in, or do I get my lazy butt out of bed and go to the gym? Do I go home early or do I stay late at work and finish that project my boss needs in the morning. Do I buy that new sports car, or do I invest my money in a new business venture?
These are all decisions that can make the difference between being successful and not being successful.
The goals and objectives you are trying to achieve will not just magically manifest themselves in your life. You have to make sacrifices towards those goals and objectives to truly manifest them. This is how you create momentum towards achieving your desires. This could present in the form of giving something up, such as time, money or energy. You might have to sacrifice one, two or all of these things to achieve your goals and become successful.
One of the biggest sacrifices often required for achieving success is changing who you are as a person, versus who you need to be, to achieve success.
Show Notes
What is going on!!! We are back to another episode of the Undeniable Level Up Podcast. In our last episode, we provided our listeners with several methods, tricks of the trade, to organizing your lives. Let's face it, for most us, this is the primary blocker stopping us from achieving success. If you missed that episode, I encourage you to go back and have a listen. It was our last episode of our 1st season.
Today, as we jump head first into our first episode of our 2nd season, we are here to discuss success and whether or no success requires sacrifice.
READ: Tonic Motihala says "There is no success without sacrifice".
Q: How do you feel about Tonic's statement? Do you believe that success requires sacrifice?
If success were easy, then we would all be successful. In order to achieve success, we often find ourselves in conflict between choices and options. Do we pursue those tasks which bring us closer to our goals and objectives, or do we take it easy and relax. Watch TV or take a nap? These are often options, where we become conflicted between what we want to do versus what we need to do.
Some common decisions include do I sleep in, or do I get my lazy butt out of bed and go to the gym? Do I go home early or do I stay late at work and finish that project my boss needs in the morning. Do I buy that new sports car, or do I invest my money in a new business venture?
These are all decisions that can make the difference between being successful and not being successful.
The goals and objectives you are trying to achieve will not just magically manifest themselves in your life. You have to make sacrifices towards those goals and objectives to truly manifest them. This is how you create momentum towards achieving your desires. This could present in the form of giving something up, such as time, money or energy. You might have to sacrifice one, two or all of these things to achieve your goals and become successful.
One of the biggest sacrifices often required for achieving success is changing who you are as a person, versus who you need to be, to achieve success.
Q: Have you ever had to change yourself to achieve success? What did that look like? How did others accept or not accept that change in you? Who was hurt by that change? Who supported you?
It is quite possible that you may have to completely change who you are to achieve your desired goals and objectives. Some questions that you can ask yourself when you self assessing as to whether you need to make personal changes are:
- What values must I change to achieve this goal?
- Would any of my deal breaker values being negatively impacted by trying to achieve success?
- What habits or activities must I sacrifice to achieve success?
- What does my goals demand I change about myself?
- Can I make those changes?
- Am I willing to make those changes?
Q: How have you changed as a person from who you were before you were successful to who you are now? Was this change positive or negative looking back?
Often times making a sacrifice means giving up something good for something better. This often requires foregoing that instant gratification that we've all gotten use too. It's giving up that short-term pleasure for that long term gain. It's the "No Pain, No Gain" mentality of sacrificing now for a huge payback later.
Q: What sacrifices have you had to make for long term gains? Do you regret making these sacrifices?
Many times, what detracts you from reaching success are distractions. Distractions are activities, events and even people that take you off course from your desired objective and move you further away from achieving success. These things can give you temporary pleasure, but leave you unfulfilled. Things like television, parties, a lover. All of these things can become a distractor towards achieving your goals.
Q: What distractions have you had to overcome to achieve success? Was it hard to overcome these distractions? How did you manage to eliminate these distractions?
Many times we will find people who want to achieve success but refuse to make the necessary compromises or sacrifices to achieve that success. As a result, they remain stuck in their situation. They often attempt to rationalize that failure by blaming those around them for their lack of success. They say things like "I should have gotten that promotion", or "he/she was lucky they invested when they did", or "I don't have the knowledge to start my own business". These are just excuses made by those who are not willing to sacrifice to achieve something greater than their current situation.
Making a sacrifice is never easy. If you have been struggling with making some necessary sacrifices to achieve success, we are going to provide you with the six (6) steps that you need to take to determine if you're ready to make the necessary sacrifices to achieve success. The first step is:
- STEP 1 - Provide clarity of your goal or objective. What is it you really want. Why do you want it? Is it in alignment with your values and your WHY? Do your values and your WHY need to be adjusted?
Q: Have you even had to adjust your values to reach an objective or goal? If so, was it difficult? Were you able to sustain the change? Did others accept your new values?
- STEP 2 - Create a plan. Define the roadmap to achieving your objective. What exactly do you need to do to achieve your goals.
- STEP 3 - Consider the repercussions. What will be the fallout of your sacrifice? Is it worthy? Will it violate your values? Will it go against your WHY? How will it impact your life? How will it impact the life of your family? Your spouse? What conflict will arise from this sacrifice? Will it impact you emotionally? Financially? Morally?
- STEP 4 - What changes do you need to make in your life to reduce the impact of the repercussions? Do you need to adjust your circle? Do you need to make changes to your life? Do you need to make personal changes?
- STEP 5 - Make the sacrifices necessary to achieve success. Are these sacrifices enough. Are you having to sacrifice more than you bargained for?
- STEP 6 - Assess whether or not these sacrifices are worth making? You can do this by looking at your values and your WHY and determining if they are negatively impacted by your sacrifice.
When considering making sacrifices, it is easy to get tunnel vision and focus on short term impact without fully understanding the long term impact of your sacrifices. For example, if you need to sacrifice time away from your young children for the next 10 years, you may think that you'll still have time to spend with them once you achieve success, but the relationships may be damaged beyond repair. It is important that you consider both short term and long term impact if your sacrifices.
Q: Have you ever made a sacrifice that negatively impacted you on a long term basis that you did not anticipate? How did that present itself? What do you believe you could have done differently? Do you regret your choices? Were your choices aligned with your values?
There are a lot of things people sacrifice in order to achieve success. The following are the top 23 things often sacrificed in the pursuit of success according to Dan Baily, from the Enterprise League:
- Family
- Sleep
- Health
- Mental Health
- Freedom
- Games
- Social Life
- Fun
- Love
- Vacation
- Time
- Colleagues
- Travel
- Lifestyle
- Drinking
- Work life balance
- Gym
- 9 to 5 Safety Net
- Financial Security
- Preconceived notion of Success
- One's Self
- Personal Relationships
- Professional Relationships
Read Quote: James Allen says, "He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much, must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."
Q: Is there truth to these words?
(CTA)
Guys, it's time to level up. If you are stuck in a rut and not experiencing the success you feel you deserve, I encourage to purchase the book, "7 Best Sacrifices to Success: A Productive Book to Boost Confidence, Enhance Self Belief, Build Success Mindset and Become Mega Successful in Life" by author Pradip N. Das. The link for the book will be in show notes.
It's time to level up when it comes to succeeding in life and accomplishing those things that you deem important. Whether that's financial success, business success, success with your relationships, success at work. What ever it is, it is time to assess the sacrifices you are making…or the sacrifices you are NOT making and make the necessary adjustments so that you can achieve that success. Stop waiting for something great to happen and begin looking at the actions you need to take to MAKE something great happen in your life. Let's stop making excuses and complaining about our situation and begin making the necessary sacrifices today that will ensure your ability to success and be undeniable in your level up.
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What is going on!!! We are back to another episode of the Undeniable Level Up Podcast. In our last episode, we provided our listeners with several methods, tricks of the trade, to organizing your lives. Let's face it, for most us, this is the primary blocker stopping us from achieving success. If you missed that episode, I encourage you to go back and have a listen. It was our last episode of our 1st season.
Today, as we jump head first into our first episode of our 2nd season, we are here to discuss success and whether or no success requires sacrifice.
READ: Tonic Motihala says "There is no success without sacrifice".
Q: How do you feel about Tonic's statement? Do you believe that success requires sacrifice?
If success were easy, then we would all be successful. In order to achieve success, we often find ourselves in conflict between choices and options. Do we pursue those tasks which bring us closer to our goals and objectives, or do we take it easy and relax. Watch TV or take a nap? These are often options, where we become conflicted between what we want to do versus what we need to do.
Some common decisions include do I sleep in, or do I get my lazy butt out of bed and go to the gym? Do I go home early or do I stay late at work and finish that project my boss needs in the morning. Do I buy that new sports car, or do I invest my money in a new business venture?
These are all decisions that can make the difference between being successful and not being successful.
The goals and objectives you are trying to achieve will not just magically manifest themselves in your life. You have to make sacrifices towards those goals and objectives to truly manifest them. This is how you create momentum towards achieving your desires. This could present in the form of giving something up, such as time, money or energy. You might have to sacrifice one, two or all of these things to achieve your goals and become successful.
One of the biggest sacrifices often required for achieving success is changing who you are as a person, versus who you need to be, to achieve success.
Q: Have you ever had to change yourself to achieve success? What did that look like? How did others accept or not accept that change in you? Who was hurt by that change? Who supported you?
It is quite possible that you may have to completely change who you are to achieve your desired goals and objectives. Some questions that you can ask yourself when you self assessing as to whether you need to make personal changes are:
What values must I change to achieve this goal?
Would any of my deal breaker values being negatively impacted by trying to achieve success?
What habits or activities must I sacrifice to achieve success?
What does my goals demand I change about myself?
Can I make those changes?
Am I willing to make those changes?
Q: How have you changed as a person from who you were before you were successful to who you are now? Was this change positive or negative looking back?
Often times making a sacrifice means giving up something good for something better. This often requires foregoing that instant gratification that we've all gotten use too. It's giving up that short-term pleasure for that long term gain. It's the "No Pain, No Gain" mentality of sacrificing now for a huge payback later.
Q: What sacrifices have you had to make for long term gains? Do you regret making these sacrifices?
Many times, what detracts you from reaching success are distractions. Distractions are activities, events and even people that take you off course from your desired objective and move you further away from achieving success. These things can give you temporary pleasure, but leave you unfulfilled. Things like television, parties, a lover. All of these things can become a distractor towards achieving your goals.
Q: What distractions have you had to overcome to achieve success? Was it hard to overcome these distractions? How did you manage to eliminate these distractions?
Many times we will find people who want to achieve success but refuse to make the necessary compromises or sacrifices to achieve that success. As a result, they remain stuck in their situation. They often attempt to rationalize that failure by blaming those around them for their lack of success. They say things like "I should have gotten that promotion", or "he/she was lucky they invested when they did", or "I don't have the knowledge to start my own business". These are just excuses made by those who are not willing to sacrifice to achieve something greater than their current situation.
Making a sacrifice is never easy. If you have been struggling with making some necessary sacrifices to achieve success, we are going to provide you with the six (6) steps that you need to take to determine if you're ready to make the necessary sacrifices to achieve success. The first step is:
STEP 1 - Provide clarity of your goal or objective. What is it you really want. Why do you want it? Is it in alignment with your values and your WHY? Do your values and your WHY need to be adjusted?
Q: Have you even had to adjust your values to reach an objective or goal? If so, was it difficult? Were you able to sustain the change? Did others accept your new values?
STEP 2 - Create a plan. Define the roadmap to achieving your objective. What exactly do you need to do to achieve your goals.
STEP 3 - Consider the repercussions. What will be the fallout of your sacrifice? Is it worthy? Will it violate your values? Will it go against your WHY? How will it impact your life? How will it impact the life of your family? Your spouse? What conflict will arise from this sacrifice? Will it impact you emotionally? Financially? Morally?
STEP 4 - What changes do you need to make in your life to reduce the impact of the repercussions? Do you need to adjust your circle? Do you need to make changes to your life? Do you need to make personal changes?
STEP 5 - Make the sacrifices necessary to achieve success. Are these sacrifices enough. Are you having to sacrifice more than you bargained for?
STEP 6 - Assess whether or not these sacrifices are worth making? You can do this by looking at your values and your WHY and determining if they are negatively impacted by your sacrifice.
When considering making sacrifices, it is easy to get tunnel vision and focus on short term impact without fully understanding the long term impact of your sacrifices. For example, if you need to sacrifice time away from your young children for the next 10 years, you may think that you'll still have time to spend with them once you achieve success, but the relationships may be damaged beyond repair. It is important that you consider both short term and long term impact if your sacrifices.
Q: Have you ever made a sacrifice that negatively impacted you on a long term basis that you did not anticipate? How did that present itself? What do you believe you could have done differently? Do you regret your choices? Were your choices aligned with your values?
There are a lot of things people sacrifice in order to achieve success. The following are the top 23 things often sacrificed in the pursuit of success according to Dan Baily, from the Enterprise League:
Family
Sleep
Health
Mental Health
Freedom
Games
Social Life
Fun
Love
Vacation
Time
Colleagues
Travel
Lifestyle
Drinking
Work life balance
Gym
9 to 5 Safety Net
Financial Security
Preconceived notion of Success
One's Self
Personal Relationships
Professional Relationships
Read Quote: James Allen says, "He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much, must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."
Q: Is there truth to these words?
(CTA)
Guys, it's time to level up. If you are stuck in a rut and not experiencing the success you feel you deserve, I encourage to purchase the book, "7 Best Sacrifices to Success: A Productive Book to Boost Confidence, Enhance Self Belief, Build Success Mindset and Become Mega Successful in Life" by author Pradip N. Das. The link for the book will be in show notes.
It's time to level up when it comes to succeeding in life and accomplishing those things that you deem important. Whether that's financial success, business success, success with your relationships, success at work. What ever it is, it is time to assess the sacrifices you are making…or the sacrifices you are NOT making and make the necessary adjustments so that you can achieve that success. Stop waiting for something great to happen and begin looking at the actions you need to take to MAKE something great happen in your life. Let's stop making excuses and complaining about our situation and begin making the necessary sacrifices today that will ensure your ability to success and be undeniable in your level up.