If you want to change your life, it’s more than telling yourself, “No more excuses.” It’s more than discipline and willpower and having a positive mindset. And it’s more than just believing in yourself when no one else does, when it feels like everything is going against you. Change requires—demands—that you ask yourself, “What are you willing to sacrifice to get where you want to go, to become who you want to become?”
Get Really Honest with Yourself
What is hard about change is that you must stare yourself down and be brutally honest about everything that you’re doing that is holding you back, everything that is stealing your time, energy, focus, and attention. In this highly-advanced, technological world, is that social media or endless web surfing? Is there pain that you’re trying to dull through alcohol, sex, food, or excessive spending? What is it that you haven’t dealt with that is keeping you stuck and stopping you from living the life you want for yourself?
It’s about sacrifice.
Sacrifice Give You the Life You Want
If you’re tired of living a life that does not belong to you, take a stand today and declare that this is the day that you try again. No matter what the odds, no matter who may stand against you or what they say. Today, you take full control of your ship and steer it where you want to go. You go to the gym or for that run…because it matters. You start writing your book…because it matters. Or you don’t eat that whole bag of potato chips…because that matters.
Here’s the thing…
If you cannot sacrifice who you are today for you who want to become tomorrow…
If you cannot sacrifice the life you’re living today for the life you want tomorrow…
Then there is only one item for you on the menu of life, and that is ordinariness.
Because you elected to remain comfortable, to bathe in the familiar, to be just like everyone else.
What will you do today…?
You are loved, you are worthy, and you matter. And you don’t need anyone’s permission to be—wholly and unapologetically—who you are.
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