The Price for Success
What amount are you willing to pay for success in any given area? People want success in their marriage, finances, business, life, etc.; but most are unwilling to pay the price. They would rather have someone else pick up the tab while they enjoy the free ride.
In marriage, one person wants to assume none of the responsibility for making the marriage work, but enjoy all of its benefits. The same scenario occurs with finances and other situations. This is one reason why so many spouses are left holding an empty bag when a spouse has died.
Millions of dollars from potential insurance death benefits are never claimed because the surviving spouse never took the time to know about their spouse’s family business affairs. The spouse enjoyed spending the money but never had the time to learn how to protect it in case of loss.
Various prices have to be paid for any and everything. However, someone has to be willing to pay the price for it. How much are you willing to pay? How much you are willing to pay for something may not be the price others are willing to pay; but the price you are willing to pay determines the value of the reward. No one likes laboring for something while perfectly healthy people, who could have assisted, get to enjoy the results of their labor without having to pay any cost.
It should be understood that not all of us have the same amount of resources, but there should be an equal sacrifice. If you solicit the help of others, you should be willing to help them while they are helping you. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. paid the ultimate price of losing his life for the success of his generation, as did others. Others paid with lost wages, suffered beatings, and had homes burned to the ground. It may not equate to equal amounts paid, but it is equal sacrifice. Help others while others are helping you.
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So true i have not really taken time to see that it works both ways. I have been I asking for help to grow in every area in my life, but have not stop to see where I come in so the people helping can get my help. The help from the source requesting the help. Lord forgive me I been selfish in many way letting everyone do the work while I cry my eyes out and not move one finger. I know see I must pay the price to get the help and have the outcome I am looking for. I see how is a team work job not one way street. Now I ask my self how much of my self I am willing to give to pay the price for my success in all areas? ?????
Dr Brown your point is so true about someone has
to be willing to pay the price. Success has a price
that is never discounted and to achieve anything of
value in life you will pay a price.
Wow!!! Awesome words! There is always a price on the head of success…in any area. Thank you Dr. Brown for your encouraging words!
S.D. Horton
When is the price to much? What if your success means giving up everything else?
I believe that you do what is necessary to achieve a goal. In other words you have to get out of your comfort zone in order to achieve what you are striving for. I am learning that more and more. Things that come easy do not carry the same weight when you have to go beyond yourself to achieve them. It gives you the strength to go even further. God gives us the ability to go beyond what we could every imagine. We are much stronger than we think, all we need to do is follow the plan which is given to us and begin to walk that way. It is very exciting where God is taking us in these crucial days.