We all want to be successful in one area of our lives or another, but what price are we willing to pay for that success?
Every successful person has paid a price for their achievement. Whether it’s being a good father/mother, a good husband/wife, a good business person, a good artist, whatever you can think of, if that person is successful, they certainly have paid something for it.
Many of us may don’t see the sacrifice and the effort that others put to achieve that thing that from the exterior looks like success.
I find myself, listening to other podcasters and I say to myself, one day I want to be successful like they are.
I was having an interview with Jessica Moorhouse, a podcaster who I admire, and she was telling me how much effort she puts in order to have a successful podcast, and I told myself: “I don’t know if I am willing to work that hard.”
What would you do to be successful?
If you want to be an entrepreneur, if you are seduced by the external signals of entrepreneurship; the flexible work schedule, being your boss, the appearance of having lots of money, the ability to call yourself the decision-maker. Then, you have to ask yourself if you are willing to put on the 16 hours workday. If you are willing to risk your own money, and your family’s money, and your friend’s money, if you are willing to live for many years with financial uncertainty. Are you willing to pay that price?
If you want to be successful in business, are you willing to put in the long hours at the office and away from your family?
If you want to be an artist, are you willing to live with hundreds of rejections, are you willing to face obscurity and indifference for many years until one day you become an overnight success?
What’s the price you are willing to pay for your success? Are you willing to delay starting a family, or not to be able to spend enough time with your family?
What price are you willing to pay that the others are not? That price will become your competitive advantage.
Find out from the start the price you are willing to pay and get started on your journey to success.
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