We want to spend more time with our families. We want to get rich by making passive income. We want six-pack abs. We want to be successful. We want to be happy.
There are so many things that we want, but we can’t get to where we want to be without giving up something. We must make sacrifices in order to achieve our goals. Here are some of the sacrifices we have to make if we want to change our lives for the better.
We have to sacrifice our time.
A couple of years ago, I had decided to go back to school to get a master’s degree in management. I discussed this choice I made with my family and they understood that I would be spending a lot less time with them and a lot more time in classes and at the library.
I also had to sacrifice most of my free time. When I decided to further my education, I knew I would have to sacrifice the time I spent going to the cinema, hanging out with friends, and watching television. But I wanted to get a master’s degree so I felt that it was worth it.
Although I missed hanging out with my family and my friends, I was glad that I sacrificed the time to increase my education. Through hard work and sacrificing my time, I was successful in getting a master’s degree in management.
Work tends to take up a lot of our time as well. We may sacrifice time to get to work early or stay at work late. We may take a shorter lunch break to help a client to close a sale. We sacrifice time with our families and friends in order to advance our careers and to increase our pay. It is something that we have to do if we want to be successful in our chosen profession.
We have to sacrifice our comfort.
To get to where we want to be, we have to make the sacrifice and step out of our comfort zone. Going on a blind date, making new friends, learning how to drive, or finding a job will cause us to experience a little discomfort.
It can be a scary thing to step out of your comfort zone. But if you want to achieve your goals and be successful you need to make the sacrifice. Some people may be afraid of making mistakes or looking stupid in front of their friends or colleagues. Most people are afraid of failure. So they do nothing.
They would rather be comfortable than step out into the unknown. But if you don’t make the sacrifice to pursue your dreams, you will be stuck in your current position. So if you want to develop yourself and improve your life, then you have to make the sacrifice and step out of your comfort zone.
We have to sacrifice our sleep.
If you want more time in the day to work on tasks to achieve your goals, then you will need to sacrifice a couple of hours of sleep. For example, I had only three days left to complete my dissertation so that I could hand it in on time. I sacrificed nearly an entire night of sleep to finish the last three chapters of my dissertation. It was exhausting, but I am so glad that I made the sacrifice because I passed.
You may not have to do what I did, but if you are running a business, you may want to stay one step ahead of the competition by getting to work an hour earlier or staying up a couple of hours later to complete a project for your client.
There are a lot of things that we do to make sacrifices to get to where we want to be. We need to make sure that the goals we are trying to reach are important enough for us to make the sacrifice so that we can be successful.
