In the pursuit of growth, there will always be a cost. Accept this now.
If you aren’t willing to pay the price, you don’t get the reward.
If you aren’t willing to invest your time, your money, your resources, your weekends, your mornings, your evenings, your energy, buying books, courses, software, tools, subscriptions, materials, giving up destructive behaviours, low quality habits, saying no to more social events, reducing distraction, losing toxic relationships, taking risks, changing your identity, unlearning conditioning, changing your character, and on and on and on, then you will not go far at all.
You don’t have to do these all at the same time, all the time, but you get the point.
The cost is different for different people, but there is always a cost. This cost will often feel uncomfortable, negative, as though its decreasing the quality of your life, but it is actually an investment to get excited about. It is necessary on the path upwards.
As I mentioned in the blog on the three truths of pursuing the good life — pursuing growth and the profound life will take more work than you ever anticipated for and will cost you more than you expected.
For your vision, and for a more profound life, it will be worth paying it a hundred times over. The rewards are far greater than the costs you will pay. This is what makes the costs make sense.
