If You Don’t Sacrifice Now, You’ll Hate Yourself Later
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Word ‘sacrifice’ might annoy most people who are looking for successful lives. Naturally none of them are willing to live that kind of life. It is basically human that in our lives we are always in pursuit of comfort and security that come with successful life.
People normally have some dreams they hope to achieve. No one wants to live a life of failure. But regretfully only a few are willing and determined to suffer in making their dreams come true and in reaching success.
Personal sacrifices, whether it is your time, money or energy, are preconditions you have to make in order to realize your dreams. Any dream, however simple, still requires some of your time, money or energy. Nothing is free.
“To realize your dreams, you must dare to pay the price”, a wise man once said. If it is easy to have everything, most likely no one will live in misery, no one will live in poverty. But we know it can never be.
Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France champion is one true phenomenon. He fought against his cancer while competing tirelessly for championship, and amazingly he won them both! But it took Armstrong about ten hours of cycling training, four hours of reading and only five hours of sleep each day to make it to the top. And this price he paid is proportional to his great achievement of winning the Tour de France seven times, so far a world record.
You might by chance had a talk with some successful people around you and you would find that their success were not without sacrifices. Going bankrupt, working day and night, living strict economical life with whatever meals they got, finding no time for their families were just some of so many sacrifices that they must made to pull through.
But you must have faith that such sacrificing is only temporary. One day in the future you will enjoy the sweet prize of your sacrifices and hard works. You reap what you have sown. Sowing good seeds (hard work, sacrifice etc.) will result in abundant harvest. On the contrary, bad seeds (laziness, no sacrificing etc.) will produce little or even nothing.
Just contemplate this touching wise words: “to be successful you have to suffer first, but you will suffer much more if you are not successful.”
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Tags: motivational, personal development, sacrifice, self improvement, Success
The more work we put in now the more we can reap these efforts. Sometimes it’s hard to see the reasons, but as long as you have goals good things will happen.
So true. In other words what you put in, you will get. Or this is the Law of Cause and Effect. I think that sacrifice may not neccessarily mean hard work, it just means being prepared to take the necessary actions to get where we want to go.
Love your blog!
I’m sacrificing!! Giving an hour a day to guitar practice. and it feels SO GOOD!! I’m filled with joy and power after each session.
Hi Karl, yes you’re right, first we must set goals and then take action to achieve the goals.
Hi Sharon, thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment.
You’re right, sacrifice does not necessarily mean hard work, it could be smart work or take the necessary actions as you said as well.
Hi Jannie, thank you for stopping by. I believe if you practice consistently, you will be a guitar master. You reap what you have sown.
I liked this post a lot. I am just learning that I need to make personal sacrifices, (time mainly) to further my career and be more satisfied in the long run. Maturity! Ack!
Hi Arswino,
This is a great point - and one I need to hear. Since I’ve started blogging, sometimes I question the amount of sacrifice I have. Yet - this really says to me - look long-term! And hard work now will pay off down the road. Thanks for sharing this!
Arswino, great article! Reading through this I was thinking, BUT, BUT it’s not sacrifice, I want to do it, I enjoy it. All alone wanting to justify my actions on my path of success. Then that last statement, brought it home, it is suffering, but the suffering would be more without that sacrifice in the first place!
Great work!
Hi Chelsea, thank you.
Whatever things you sacrifice, you will reap the harvest later.
Hi Lance, you’re welcome.
You will reap good things certainly. You have been working so hard for your blog all this time.
Hi Mike, thank you.
It’s great if you can enjoy the sacrifice instead.
Hi Arswino
You are so right. Everything comes with both positive and negative aspects.
Winning can be postivie and negatvie; losing can be positive or negative.
We need to experience both in order to grow.
Juliet
Your Blog is very uplifting…I truely believe,yes we do have to sacifice ourselves in order to better who we are!
Very great post!
Hi Juliet, yes you are right too. We need both positive and negative aspects in order to grow. Thanks for the thought.
Hi Yasmin, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment here.
One said, that if you do things that you’d like in the future, then you have to be willing to do things that you dislike now.
Keep persevering for the goals you make!
All the best Arswino!
Robert
Hi Robert, yup you’re right: no pain no gain.
Thank you so much for stopping by and encouraging me.
Believe in yourself and all that you’re. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
~ Christian D. Larson
Many Blessings….
Hugo and Roxanne
~Believe Achieve~
Hi Hugo and Roxanne, thanks for the comment and reminding that we all can go through any obstacles. Bless to you both.
Hi Arswino,
I absolutely like your post so much. Ur article so encouraging me. It is a motivation for those encounter difficulty in their life
Cheers….
Very good article, but some statements more difficult to understand, the proposed wiki plug-ins for these clauses,Make the article more easy to understand!