We must remember that life is a tradeoff between or among the choices we have. Tradeoff means, we need to lose something to gain something. Nothing comes free without attached challenges or issues.
We cannot achieve perfect health without willing to put in hard work for it in terms of daily exercises and right eating habits, living with less stress etc. Perfect health does not come with leisurely life and without effort.
In the same manner, Wealth cannot be achieved without the willingness to put in the hard work and sacrifices on several other worldly pleasures one can enjoy.
We cannot expect to achieve big career successes like others unless we are willing to put in the extra hours, which may come at the cost of family and personal life.
We cannot become a politician or a public figure unless we are willing to trade off our privacy, family life, peace and happiness etc.
We cannot achieve fame and wealth unless we are willing to pay the price of more hard work than others, superb networking, better relationship with everyone compared to others, more knowledge and wisdom and better creativity etc.
Each of our decisions comes with a price. Nothing comes easily and no one achieves the top without willing to trade off the choices. We can always live the life happily by working from 9 to 6 in a Government job and be contented with our progress and achievements. It is a choice we make. However, once we decide to lead such a life, we are also trading off the possible wealth and fame and accepting the lack of it as a price for it.
The conflict comes in our life, only when we are unable to accept this fact and always look for easy way out i.e. we wish to have perfect health without putting in the necessary hard work. We wish to have regular increase in salaries and career along with work-life balance, without putting in additional efforts to stand out among others. We wish to have fame, without compromising on personal life. Our best expectation from life is “Having the Cake and Eating it too”, which does not happen to any. When we are prepared for the trade offs and accept such tradeoffs and prepare others in our life also for such tradeoffs, life becomes a lot easier and stress free.
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Sir,though I agree to what you say and I say that because I do belive in the same.But at experiences do open the your thoughts on magnitude of trade offs that different individuals go in their lifetime. I believe trade-offs are an extreme for someone and for some its not so magnificient.And the real achievement lies in the definition we try to put to success.
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