Nothing is Free. Not Even Success or Failure
" The price of
anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
- Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
Author/Philosopher
In any blog,
article or book on success and personal develop 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 use 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.
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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