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the right boards. But to be honest, we weren’t to picky with our selections, we made them work. If you have ever built a house (tree or otherwise) then you know it doesn’t just happen overnight.
It our “immediate satisfaction” world, it gets hard to wait for something to get complete. We become like the kids in the back seat of the car crying out, “Are we there yet?!” We begin our business. Is it a success yet? We set out to bottle our new rub, is the R&D complete yet? You get the picture. How many celebrity interviews have you heard with the “overnight successes” where they reveal, their overnight success has taken years.
As we count the cost, time is one of the biggest ones we often overlook. Sure, we try to remind ourselves of this but deep down we ask, “What is taking so long?” How much time are you willing to spend working toward this goal. One business guru once said, “Work your dream like it’s a job.” What he means is, just like going to work for 8-10 hours a day, we should treat our goal the same way. We must put the time into making the dream work.
The Cost Sacrifice
The natural progression of putting in the time is the cost of making sacrifices. I love to watch movies. Westerns, horror, thriller, even rom-coms, I love to watch them all. I once set out to watch the entire Star Wars series of movies in one
day. Do you know how long that takes? There are 9 movies (if you don’t count the spin-offs) which makes it a mini- mum of 18 hours. I justify this and other ways of putting off doing work as. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” I also need to realize there is a time and place for everything. If I want my dream to become a success, then I need to realize this sooner than later.
When we set out on a new project or dream, we tend to focus on what we’ll accomplish when our ship has arrived. We forget about the sacrifices it takes to bring that ship in. For me, it could be less time in front of a movie or procras- tinating because I would just rather play. A friend of mine who immigrated here from Peru once told me about the sacrifices he had to make. He said all his friends were busy getting jobs for quick money, going out and driving cars. He went on to say, his uncle told him to go to class, learn Eng- lish and you’ll go far. This is exactly what he did, while he watched all his friends play. In the end, he now has a great paying job, drives a nice car and lives in his own home. His friends, according to him, are just about right where they were when they arrived.
There is a cost to succeeding and those with whom we ad- mire or look up to have realized this. They are where they are because they have paid the price it takes to get there. When you’re ready to count the cost, then you will also be on the road to success.
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