Sacrifice For Progress ~ Episode #16 ~ December 21, 2023

welcome back mamas. I am excited on this Christmas week if you didn't know Christmas is my absolute favorite time of year and we are in the photos of it now, right it is well, today's Wednesday. I am waiting until the last minute to record this podcast episode and this week. I've been thinking a about sacrifice right in the spirit of Advent and everything that Jesus gave up on a cross for us. I have been thinking about sacrifice and I'm like that is what I want my topic to be about this week and I've have of course some quotes for you to share. I up with these quotes. I found these quotes a few ago. I'm gonna start with one from Napoleon Hill. So Napoleon Hill says great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice and is never the result of selfishness. So, you know, it has mothers we know all about sacrifice. Right and we are always sacrificing our cells like what we want do for ourselves and what we want to possibly have for ourselves for our children, but when it comes to sacrificing to make ourselves better, we have to sacrifice things to improve ourselves or to take our self to the next level. Sometimes we struggle that. And a times what I found is that it's all about our ego. Right and we may not like to hear that. A people are like ego what I have an ego. Well, let just check you right there because we 

all have an ego, right if ever you're thinking about yourself and maybe what other people might think of you or you know, if you've ever thought about you know, well, what if I look bad right that is your ego talking that is your ego. It is saying to you like, oh, I don't want to look bad. I want to save face or I don't want that person to that way of me or whatever. It might be. you are Essentially having an ego right because you're thinking about yourself because a of times what we don't realize is that what we have to offer and it took a long to to this you guys but what we have to offer other people is something that unique like we are all created uniquely like no one else is like me. No one else is like you and you have something uniquely gifted to you that only you can bring right and even if somebody out is doing the exact same as you are you are going to do it differently. It is going to be done in a way and so a times what would to me? Is I would think oh, I don't want to share this with other people or I'm afraid to do this because I don't know what people might think of me. Right? Like if I start you you have be vulnerable right in order take yourself to next level, whether it's you know, doing something like I'm doing which like putting a podcast out and and doing like group coaching and things like that like a cohort. It is something different they on losing weight, right then writing a book they on starting a business than I don't starting to work 

out again putting something into your routine getting a massage for yourself like something anything that you want to do to improve yourself. You are probably going to have to make some sacrifices in order to achieve it now, maybe not the getting a massage once a or something like that. But all the other ones I talked about like losing weight even like losing weight. You are to have to sacrifice things in order to lose weight. You are going to have to sacrifice things in order to start a business you are going to have to sacrifice things in order like for me start a podcast like I have to just go for it and not care what anyone else is going to think about what I'm saying? What I'm doing like, you know, is she qualified. Is she this is she that you know, what? It doesn't matter what they think right and now that I'm doing it I before I did it you guys it took a long time to to that point before I did it. thought about this. I felt like I was being called to this. I felt I was supposed share this with the world, but let all these thoughts get into my head. And ultimately if I really got down to brass tacks, it was worrying about what other people might think instead of trusting what I know to true and you guys sacrificing that like sacrificing your reputation getting vulnerable. With other people like sharing personal stories sharing your feelings your opinions different things like that that I do if gonna write a or if you're going to start a business like these are leaps that gonna have to make and they are gonna require sacrifice and so it is something that is super important and 

we do it a as mothers, but it's not usually to better ourselves. We're sacrificing for sake our kids. We're sacrificing for the sake something else, right? So I want read my next quote and this one is from Gordon B Hinckley and he says you will come to know what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you ever make. So what appears today to a sacrifice will actually wind up being the greatest investment you ever make because in order to sacrifice, it's like an investment right? Like you're taking a chance, right? You are taking chance on yourself by sacrificing these things. Like if you're even if you're just losing weight and I say just losing weight. Even if you are goal is to lose weight or to start getting healthy again or to start working out again so that you are healthier. There are things that you're going to have to sacrifice and the payoff is going to be that you are going be a healthier person. Right? So the sacrifice is worth the investment just like if starting a business just like writing a or doing a podcast or anything that you want do. The sacrifice today is going to feel great, but it going to be the greatest payoff in the long run and I want to talk about this in another light as well. Because I'm I'm gonna read one more quote first though. Okay, I because just spotted this and I forgot that I had this one and it says if you don't sacrifice for what you want what you want becomes the sacrifice now, that one is not quoted and I do know I looked everywhere and nobody can quotes for it. There was lot places but if you don't sacrifice for what you want what you want becomes the sacrifice 

because you're not willing to sacrifice for it. Then you're ultimately saying, okay. Well, it's not important enough to you to make the sacrifice. And so that is what becomes the sacrifice the thing actually want in the first place is what becomes the sacrifice you guys that's deep, right that is deep and it is so true. And so what was going to go to before I remembered about that quote is this and this is about something that is it says by Jim Rohn and Jim Rohn. He's a motivational speaker and entrepreneur he is somebody who I follow but it says whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness. Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness great wealth great return great satisfaction great reputation and great joy. So what are saying that is it, you know, sometimes being of service to others is a sacrifice, right? It is something we are sacrificing like it is more important to me. to put out there what I have learned what I gone through what I believe will help other mothers get out of either that funk that they're already in or maybe not even get into that funk but it is something that I am doing and am Sacrificing right? Like I I started this podcast. I don't make money from this right like this is not this is just something I do because I want help people like the cohort things like that that I'm to be doing. Yes, those things will cost money. But this is something where I am just giving back it is sacrifice of my time of my energy of my money actually, you know, I had invest a of money in to be able bring this podcast to guys. It 

is something that I have invested and I am sacrificing but it is a service that I am confident is going to pay me back and when whether or it pays me back on this Earth or later after this after life because I was stepped into my calling and helped other people. Is it doesn't matter to me like I hope that it does pay greatly in this, you in this life as well as Beyond but if it doesn't that is okay with me I have decided that that is okay with me and I would like to do this as a service to other people because I believe that it will bring it will bring greatness. Even if it bring greatness to myself it bring greatness to others. It will bring greatness to other families. It will be greatness to people who listen to this to who able to implement or step out of something they've been in or maybe get through something that they might not have known how get through on their own or you just hearing something that hopefully I have said that his impacted them to make a positive decision in their life that hopefully impacts their whole family, right that is why you do the things that you do because if you are providing service to others and I think you you guys have heard talk about this, you many times about doing things for other people and being of service and You how it will come back to you and outflow equals inflow. You've probably heard me say that too it is so true what you putting out there is going to come back. So whether or I get something back in this life. know I will actually I will be getting something back in this life whether or it's success in terms like, you know wealth it might not be that it might be the satisfaction. The joy that comes to me from helping 

other people, right? So I am sacrificing for that reason and you guys I just thought that in light of this week, like I said in light Advent and light all of this that would share this with you because sometimes and especially when we're going it to the end of this year, right? We're gonna starting 2024 here in a couple weeks and it is going to be something where you are most likely Going to have to sacrifice something to get what you want. and so I want to think about it in terms not sacrificing don't focus on what your sacrificing focus on what the reward is going to be and the greatness that is going come from And I know I've talked about, you making a list of things that you like things that you want. We're going talk about this a more in cohort, but also probably going to be bringing this up going into the new year and you know last week's episode if want to go back and listen was about finding your word of the year. And so just having that to on to so that can come back to kind your roots getting rooted. You don't have to find your word of the year. I know that's triggering for some people but was about getting rooted and I think that this takes it to the next level because you're going to have to sacrifice in order to get what you want. Most likely if you're moving forward moving towards something bettering yourself leveling up in any way shape or form you were going to have to go through some sacrifice and I just want tell you that it's going to be worth it and especially if you know the root of why you're doing the things that you're doing so I'm gonna leave at that short and sweet today. Hopefully you something from this and I 

would love to hear from you. I hope you have a merry Merry have obviously speaking to you before the new year, but also look, I'm going to hopefully link it in the notes the website where you can sign up for the cohort that's going to start in 2024. So until next week y'all keep smiling. Talk to soon.