Are you willing to pay the price ?

One of the things that Jack Canfield touches on in his book ‘Success Principles’ was the question of, "Are you willing to pay the price?" He asks, "How many of you want to be better parents, better managers, have better health, be a millionaire?" I am most certain most people would say yes, to all that.

However he then asks, "Are you willing to pay the price to achieve those things?" He continued to say that we all generally have good intentions in wanting to be better, but most of us are not willing to pay the price.

For example, to be a better manager, we will have to continuously develop ourselves which means paying a price in terms of money, time, effort, less time with the family etc. How many of us are willing to do this? And yet, just working everyday, without paying the ‘necessary’ price will not necessarily make us better managers. We only do what we have always done a little bit better, and that’s all.

Similarly, all of us want to have better relationships with the people we love, but we usually take them for granted and don’t do what we ‘know’ we should. We don’t want to make that extra effort. We want to pay a ‘small’ price but expect high returns. This definitely does not conform to Life’s success principles.

In life, we will have to accept that whatever we achieve is directly proportional to the effort and sacrifices that we put in, in the first place.