Do You Really Want To Sacrifice?
Going back to the [Name Withheld] video from yesterday, stop and think about one point that [Name Withheld] made in regards to life balance and sacrifice.
If you recall [Name Withheld] and I were talking about the importance of balancing the focus of your habits, routines, and efforts. He talked about how often times people would focus on one thing or another, but not the whole balanced picture. For example, as I had done, people will often put their work or career first, and throw all of their effort into that, and then once they have accomplished one thing to a degree they feel is satisfactory, they will then shift some of that focus onto health, exercise, and so on.
The Danger Of Intent Focus
Many people get a sort of tunnel vision with their efforts to create wealth and so on, to the detriment of 
some other important life factor. We’ll sacrifice good health, or sleep, or something so that we can focus intently on the one goal. The problem when we do that is that we throw off our life balance and, as [Name Withheld] says, we kill a part of ourselves, at least for a time, and possibly permanently.
The True Meaning Of Sacrifice
We tend to think of sacrifice as a noble act. But let’s think about that definition of sacrifice that [Name Withheld] gave us. The word sacrifice has as its root “to kill”. Even modern definitions are riddled with negative words, like “abandon”, “give up”, “loss”, and “giving up something of value”. A key to the definition is the word value; if it is not valued, it is not a sacrifice. It hardly seems sensible to give up something of value when you are trying to create value in your life and build wealth.
Creating wealth does not mean you have to sacrifice value in your life. There is a difference between replacing negative habits and worthless actions with sacrificing ones of value. Wealth creation is a whole-life proposition, and so our aim is to strive for that balance that [Name Withheld] talks about and create a whole life of good living, without the sacrifice we’ve become to accustomed to living with.
Start today to achieve you best life balance, and give yourself the freedom to live well in all regards. Life has been too much about sacrificing, now make it about living!
Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
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Tags: Build Wealth, Creating Wealth, life balance, Name Withheld, Sacrifice, Success, Wealth Creation
April 10th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I agree totally, Sean, A wealthy life is a balanced life. If you must work 100 hours a week in oursuit of your wealthy lifestyle, that is not living an abundant life. Sooner or later that will catch up with you. A wealthy life includes good relationships, exercise, and some sort of fun outlet if you are not getitng too much of that from your work.