Choose your sacrifices or they choose you
Consciously choose what you’re sacrificing to achieve your goals, else it’ll find its own way to sabotage your life.
Have you accomplished everything you've wanted so far?
Here's a further question: Have you made the appropriate sacrifices you needed to achieve those goals?
When starting a business or a relationship, sacrifices are made. Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day, so your priorities have the change and shift. You have to balance your existing life with this new element you're introducing. What do you sacrifice? Your alone time? Your social time with friends and family? Your attention and focus?
You can actually consciously choose your sacrifices ahead of time, so you’re mentally prepared and willing to give up that thing in exchange for bringing in what you desire to improve your life. It could even be discussed ahead of time and negotiated with those around you who could be affected by this life change of yours.
In building my business, I have to choose wisely what I spend my time on. I can focus on any aspect of my business because there is no shortage of what I “need” to do. I could select from endless choices and opportunities.
But it all comes down to, does it move the needle towards my current goals?
I have my squirrel moments, drawn in by shiny objects, but then I’m distracted from the things I should be doing. Focus and time unconsciously sacrificed.
I have my moments of steamrolling down a goal with blinders on, but then I miss meals, don't take breaks, and end up sleeping late. Self care and health neglected.
I have consciously said “no” to projects, ideas, and conversations to focus on what is more important to me. Success! Good sacrifices made.
In dating, I’ve said no to men who I didn’t have chemistry with and who didn’t have similar life values. And the hardest one was walking away from an amazing, soul-fueling relationship because we didn’t align on wanting kids.
We’re constantly choosing our sacrifices in life for short term gratification or long term gain. So which ones are selected consciously or are you allowing them to be chosen for you?
In case I haven’t drilled this in enough, make your sacrifices intentional. You have the power to choose what sacrifices are acceptable and how those sacrifices are made.
Read my blog post with tips on how you can make conscious sacrifices and tie those into your goal setting.
Choose your sacrifices consciously.