Sacrifices You Need To Make To Escape Poverty

Brain Tracy says – If you want to achieve something different, you have to do something different.
If you want to achieve what you have never achieved, you have to do what you have never done before.

Growing up I wrote the above sentences and paste on the wall of my room and each day when I see these words, I knew I have to make sacrifices.

Its very simple, if your life is not what you want it to be right now, you have to be willing to do something different, and let me not sugar coat anything here , you wont move from one easy one to another, doing something different means getting out of your comfort zone and this is never going to be easy.

In this article, I am going to show you three sacrifices you need to make to escape poverty, if you are reading from this channel for the first time, then consider following us so that you won’t miss other interesting articles like this.

1.      Take Time to Read

Most of my friends and relatives knows what I have achieved with my life today, so its easy for them to envy me. Few years ago, I was one of the young people who their life is a disaster, I hated my life and I wished I was never born because I was born into poverty sickness and many other limitations. So how was I able to change my life from being the guy who hated life to creating the one of the best lives ever for myself? BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS. My life changed the day I started reading books, and I will explain how it happened; First when I started reading books, I started reading the stories of ordinary people who achieved extra ordinary things, this stories encouraged me and gave me hope that I could as well overcome every obstacle on my way, and achieve greatness with my life. I think this is very simple, if you know that some people have some disadvantage as you think you have and yet went on and achieved success, you would certainly start to believe in yourself, when you start to believe in yourself you start to think big and when you increase the size of you dream, you automatically increase what is possible with your life. In my case, I started believing that I can become rich even though I grew up in a poor village, I started believing that I can become a millionaire, and this believe lead me to something very important, I started looking for how I can achieve what I believe I can achieve by reading books written by people who has made a lot of money before, I started learning the mindset and action of rich people and the more I model this people the better my financial life. It get me 4 good years before my financial life changed. Without reading books, I wouldn’t have made it.

One other thing you can do apart from reading books is watching videos that tells stories about rich people. Yes, books are boring and so are every meaningful thing, fruits and vegetables are boring but if you want to be healthy, you will eat more of them. So, to drinks, they are fun, sugar is sweet and fast foods are nice but if you like your health, you will run away from them. The TV is fun and so the social media are interesting, but if you want to escape poverty, you will spend more time on your books. Sometime ago I got to know that Bill Gate reads one book every week, I have also read about the fact that an average millionaire reads one book every week, if an average millionaire dose something, it’s probably a good thing to emulate, so I decided to be reading one book every week, this is not easy and I am not asking you to start reading one book in one week. But you have to make sacrifices to read books if you want to escape poverty.

2.      Don’t Make Excuses

I told you earlier that sugar is sweet and you agree that hard drugs, fast food and most other harmful things are fun, another very sweet thing is excuses, that’s why most people make it, you can come up with a hundred reason why you are where you are if you want and you can come up with a single reason you need to be elsewhere, the difference is in the way you use the powerful machine God gave you, that machine is your brain, if you program your brain to look for reason why you are poor, you reticular activator system will be busy looking for reasons and it will start seeing how the economy, the government and your parents make you poor, it will quickly show you how your lack of education, your health challenge, your childhood or even the country you where born are the reason why you are poor, if however you program your brain to look for why you must be rich, you will start seeing that even in a bad economy, some people are making a hundred of thousands of dollar in legitimate businesses, you will start reading about people who went through similar difficulties like you and ended up succeeding, you will start seeing that you have power over life than you think and you will start taking responsibility, excuse is the food of the fools, our world is filled with many of them because excuse is sweet, its about pointing a finger, its easy, everyone can do it but if you want to escape poverty, do not do it. 

Don’t make excuse, identify what you have to do to change your life and do it, no matter how difficult.

3.  Trade A One Hundred Failure for One Success.



I heard something very interesting from Mark Cuban few years ago, and it made a lot of sense to me, he said and I quote, “it doesn’t matter how many times you fail, remember you only have to succeed once”.

This statement made a lot of sense to me because when I look back to my years of failure, I could see the meaning of this statement, my first few years in the business world was nothing, everything I attempted failed, and everyone thought I was stupid, I was broke, rejected and frustrated, but a day came when I had my first breakthrough, from there I had my second breakthrough and the third, and today it seem as if everything I touch is successful. That’s the opposite of the kind of life I had only a few years ago.

Here is the thing, it doesn’t matter how many times you failed, remember you only have to succeed once, and that once will quench all the pains of failed years. Why is that important? well most people see failure as a bad thing, and that’s why they give up, if you are on to success, at least you should know that the road that lead to success is called Failure, and failure is not final, because a single success will make you forget the pains of 10 years failure.

Make sacrifices to try things, make sacrifices to get out of your comfort zone, make sacrifices to do things that are risky, when you fail, be courageous to stand up and try again, because it doesn’t matter how many times you failed, all you need is a single success.

The most important point in this article is SACRIFICE, if you want to escape poverty, you have to be discipline enough to do something that are not comfortable, its not comfortable to read, but you have to do it, its not easy to take actions that may lead to failure, but you have to do it, failure is painful, but yet, you have to endure failure and try again.

Remember how I started this article, you can not get the new result by doing the old things, every new thing is uncomfortable, so you have to actually willing to make sacrifice if you want to escape poverty.

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