It’s Free! Not Really

In any blog, article or book on success and personal development you read, you will hear about "paying the price" for the goals you wish to achieve.  I have told many people who have high and lofty goals to understand the cost and are they willing to give what is needed to succeed.  Success is not cheap and we should never approach it lightly, but then, failure is not cheap either.

                Too many people have held back and not gone after their dreams because they did not want to pay the price for success.  They see the amount of time and work they had to give in exchange for their dream as too high.  What these people fail to see is that the cost of failure is always much higher and in the end, failure costs us more than we can ever afford to pay.

                Author and speaker Zig Ziglar used to say, "You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success."  All the time, energy and effort you put into success is not a loss but rather an investment.  This investment pays back many times over for the ones who stay with it and reach their goals.  The price of failure is like throwing your time, effort and money down a dark hole, never to be seen again.

" The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

(1817-1862)

Author/Philosopher

                I have never met a successful person who wished they sat around and did nothing rather than work to achieve their goals.  As a result, they now live the lives they choose and enjoy the gains of hard, deliberate and exciting work.  On the other hand, I have met many people who have failed to achieve anything in life and did not pay dearly for it.  They live lives controlled by others and are filled with regret, emptiness, and dissatisfaction.

                The choice is always up to you.  You will pay for something; the question is only what will that be.  Will you go for your dream, invest the time, work and whatever to become as successful as you wish to become, or will you sit back, do nothing and get nothing but pain and emptiness in return?  To me, and to all other success-minded people of the world, this is not a hard one to figure out.

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