“Sacrifices are visible; wishes are invisible.”
LESSON 2-4 REMINDER: EXTRAORDINARY SACRIFICE
We can get a lot of things wrong in life, and still be okay, but we cannot get this one thing wrong. The impact of a lifetime reflects the impact of its hours.
And the difference between talkers versus doers is sacrifice.
Those who are wishing are moving their mouths. Those who are sacrificing are moving their bodies. Sacrifices are visible; wishes are invisible.
“A great work demands a great sacrifice,” said Muriel StrodeI, “and who is not capable of a great sacrifice is not capable of a great work.”
When you are striving and sacrificing for an ambitious goal, people will see the actions, the overtime hours, the perseverance, and the plodding labor.
And to average people, it will look like an obsession. They’ll see uncommon efforts, and probably judge you as a workaholic. You’ll make many people around you feel uncomfortable, because your actions will contrast their own.
But so much of the difference in outcomes, between people of similar abilities, is how we spend our free hours. Sacrifice is found in your free hours.
You’ll pay the price of an extraordinary life, or you’ll pay the regrets of an average life. The first requires a sacrifice of hours, but the second requires a sacrifice of dreams. We either choose, or fail to choose, our use of a lifetime
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