Everything in life has a price, whether that be money, time or whatever. If you are willing to pay the price for what you want, then you will get it. If you are not willing to pay the price, then you won’t.

The desire you have to make your vision a reality and transform into the person you want to become requires action. The actions you take to make changes will have more of an impact than your desire for change.

1. Taking Action

When you take action, it shows how much you are committed to your vision and to change. Just saying you are committed, does not demonstrate your commitment, but your sacrifices and actions do.

So, how committed are you to improving yourself? How committed are you to making your vision a reality? How committed are you to creating change and a transformation?

When you make sacrifices, the bigger sacrifices you make, the more influence you will have. This is what you need to do when you are trying to gain the buy-in or support of other people. You need to influence these people and when they see you making bigger sacrifices, your influence with them will grow.

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If you want to transform your vision into a reality and create the future of your dreams, then you are going to need the support of other people.

When you are trying to gain the support of other people, it is likely that they will need to make some sacrifices too. But what most people do throughout the world (us included) is trying to retain what they have in their life.

They will have probably had to make sacrifices to have what’s in their life, so they don’t want to let go or give them up easily. In fact, a lot of people try to work out a way to have what they have, and still get ahead in life.

What I and I am sure you have seen is people who lack commitment, and when they do this their influence decreases, or they don’t have any influence at all.

This is obviously the wrong message to send to people, and if you want to make your vision a reality then you cannot be sending messages like this to the people you want support from.

Usually when people lack commitment, they want others to pay the price for them. They want others to make the sacrifices that they aren’t willing to make themselves.

2. Investing In Yourself

You are responsible for your personal growth, so if you won’t put the investment into yourself, why should anybody else do it? People who expect others to help them, blame those people instead of themselves.

They don’t look within themselves to blame because they expect the help of those other people. The help these people expect usually comes from the organisation they work for, or an organisation outside (e.g., the government).

You are reading this article, so you are investing in your personal development and personal growth because you have sacrificed your time to read it. When you do this, you are communicating to people that you are working on yourself to become more valuable.

You are becoming more valuable for yourself and for others in your life. The same happens when you invest your money and time into attending a coaching session, or a personal development class. You are again making yourself more valuable to others due to the sacrifice you are making to learn.

The people who you want to influence need to know about the sacrifices you are making, they could be a current or future client, or your current or future employer.

So, after saying that it is time for you to start taking action on the changes you want to make to become more valuable instead of talking about it. As you are reading this article, I am going to assume that is the message you want to be reading, am I right?

If you don’t invest your time and money into making yourself more valuable, then the message you are giving yourself and others is that you are okay where you are right now.

But we both know that to make your vision a reality, you can’t stay where you are right now. You need to put in the effort and the action to make your transformation into YOUR BEST YOU a reality.

3. Making Sacrifices

You need to start making sacrifices now and stop doing things that don’t make you more valuable. You need to start removing things out of your life that do not help you strive towards your vision, and the future you want to create.

These things cost you your money, time, and energy, and you are going to need these to help you make your vision a reality. Starting on this now is how you are making the commitment to yourself, and when people see you making these sacrifices, you are making the commitment to them.

The people you associate with at the moment, who is helping you move forward towards your vision, and who is holding you back? The person or people that are holding you back, you need to start thinking about sacrificing the relationship you have with them.

This is a tough thing to do, but for you to keep moving forward and seeing your vision more clearly, this is a commitment you need to make. The five people we hang out with the most, we become a combined average of those five people.

If any of those five people are holding us back, then we are not helping ourselves. What seems to happen is we do the things that they do, and we get similar results to them. If those results are not what we want, then we need to make this sacrifice.

We need to become comfortable with changing what needs to be changed, and not what is just easy to change. I know people who were in bad relationships for far too long because they didn’t know how to end them and couldn’t build the courage to end them.

4. Changing Relationships

The same goes with professional relationships, I was guilty of staying in jobs that I hated for a lot longer than I should have. For most people all over the world, sacrificing bad relationships are the toughest commitments to make. But they are the most necessary.

How did you get to where you are today in your life? It is very likely that to get to where you are, you have had to cut ties with one or two people and leave them behind for you to move forward.

When you did that, you will have met new people and built new relationships with them that have helped you, and you have helped them. If you don’t want to be stuck in your life, then you need to get over the fear of making a change or making a sacrifice.

Your biggest fear must be that you are unwilling to make the right sacrifices to enable your vision to become a reality.

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The people who are willing to make the right sacrifices are demonstrating to others how committed they are to making their vision a reality. They are demonstrating that they will do whatever it takes to create the future they want for themselves and others.

As you move forward and leave bad relationships behind, you will attract people who are like you. It is your character that will attract them, which is why it is so important that we work on developing our character every day.

The main reasons you are sacrificing bad relationships is because of their poor character. The main reason you attract people with strong characters is because of your very own strong character.

There is only you who can make your vision a reality. There is only you who can make it happen your way.

If you commit to making your vision a reality, then you will make it a reality. If you under commit, and don’t put 100% into it, then it will not happen for you. How are you going to commit?

I welcome hearing how this post has influenced the way you think, the way you lead, or the results you have achieved because of what you’ve learned in it. Please feel free to share your thoughts with me by commenting below.

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All the best,

Tom (Lead, Grow, Influence)