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https://www.inc.com/damon-brown/why-self-sacrifice-is-ultimate-leadership-failure.html
Study after study shows that sacrificing your health, sleep or relationships to get ahead will ultimately destroy you – and any short-term progress you make will be lost in the commotion. Today’s startup culture romanticizes “crushing it” at all costs, but one of the wisest takes comes from the old-school, recently deceased speaker Jim Rohn. Here he is in his classic program, The Art of Exceptional Living:
The best contribution you can make to someone else is self development, not self sacrifice. Self sacrifice only breeds contempt. Self development earns respect… If I work on myself and become more valuable, think of what that’ll do to our friendship.
Self-sacrifice is obviously caustic to you, but it is even more harmful to what you create and who surrounds you. As a leader when you take on a self-sacrifice point of view then you tell those underneath to follow that point of view. In this case, you are willing to sacrifice a long-lasting contribution for a short burst of potential success. Don’t be surprised if others follow your lead in all their work decisions. Self-sacrifice puts more pressure on those around you also. The best way to change this path is to take time for yourself, build an accountability group, and start healthy habits now. It’s important to take these small steps and surround yourself with others that you can communicate honestly and openly with. Not just your business, but your personal life also. It’s even better to have someone you can tell your deepest and darkest areas of your life. Having just one person will release the burden off your consciousness.
At the height of the dot-com bubble in late 1999 and early 2000, Masayoshi Son’s net worth was surging by $10 billion a week. For three days, he was the richest person in the world, Son said. But before Son had a chance to tell anyone, SoftBank Group Corp. crashed. The company’s shares plunged 75 percent in two months and were 93 percent lower at the end of 2000. The business almost went bankrupt. Son lost much of his wealth. “Somehow, I survived,” Son said in an interview on “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations.” “At that time, I said, ‘Now is the time to go next stage, which is the internet will become mobile internet.’”
This hyperlink includes the video interview of Son. The important lesson to learn is how to survive, and how to learn from your past failures.
This week, I’ve included IT’S TIME TO MAKE BETTER CHOICES – 2018 New Years Motivation from the Basquiat Picasso YouTube channel.
“If you think you know it all, you’re a fool for sure; real survivors learn wisdom from others.”
Proverbs 28:26 MSG
Pursuit of Excellence 
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