If You Want to Achieve Your Dreams, You Must Embrace The Tradeoff

Everything is a sacrifice of something else.

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You want a sexy and fit body.

You want to write a novel.

You want to travel the world.

You want to make a mobile app.

I get it.

Well, how do you do it?

Or, put in another way, why is someone else able to achieve it while countless others—who say they want the same thing—are not able to achieve it?

Simple.

Because they’ve accepted the tradeoffs that come with it—knowingly or unknowingly.

They know they have to sacrifice something else in order to do what they want—whether it’s comfort, money, security, or other people’s approval.

They’ve made the decision that the things they sacrifice pale in comparison to what they actually want.

I’ll give you a simple example:

Let’s say you want to travel the world while working remotely.

What do you have to sacrifice?

The time and effort it takes to save up or prepare for your trip. The hard work it takes to find a job or build a business that allows you the freedom and…