When I was around 17, I came across Bryan Tracy and fell in love with his teachings. I would have to wait till night to use internet because I couldn’t afford the normal fee in the day. I would spend hours in the night listening to Tracy and reading his quotes. One particular sentence stuck with me from Tracy that “ If you want to achieve something different you have to do something different and if you want to achieve what you have never achieve you have to do what you have never done before “.

Growing up, I wrote the above sentence big and bold and pasted it in my room, when I see it each day I knew I have to make sacrifices. Is very simple, if your life is not what you want it to be right now, you have to be willing to do something different. Doing something different means moving out of your comfort zone, this is not going to be easy but is a sacrifice that you must make. Now am going to share 3 sacrifices you need to make to escape poverty.

Read

Take time to read, most of my friends and relatives knows what I have achieved in my life today. It is easy for them to envy me. Just 17 years ago I was one of those young people whose life was a disaster, I hated my life and I wish was never born because I was born into poverty, sickness and many other limitations. So, how was I able to change my life from been the guy who hated his life to the one who created one of the best life for myself.

Books, my life changed the day I started reading book. I started reading the story of ordinary people who did extraordinary things. These stories encouraged me and gave me hope that I can overcome every obstacles in my way and achieve greatness in my life. This is very simple. If you know that some people have disadvantages and yet still go on to achieve greatness, you will start believing in yourself and when you start believing in yourself then you start thinking big and then you increase the size of your dreams. You automatically increased what is possible with your life.

In my case I started believing that I could become rich even though I grew up in poverty. I started believing that I could become a billionaire and these believe led me to something important. I started looking for joe to achieve what I believe I could achieve by reading books written by people that have made lot of money before. I started learning the mindset and act of these people and the more I model these people the better my financial life. Yes, it took me 8 years long before I had a drastic change in my financial life. Without reading books I could not have ever make it.

One other thing you can do with reading is watching the video that tell story about successful people. Sometimes ago, I got to know Bill gate read one book every week and I have read about the fact that an average billionaire read one book every week.

Excuses

Don’t make excuse. Sugar, fun and alcohol are sweet for some people, another sweet thing is excuse. You can come up with 100 reasons why you are where you are and as well come up with a single reason why you need to be else where. The difference is in the way you use power machine God gave you, that machine is your brain. If you programmed your brain to give you reason why you are poor, you won’t stop seeing your economy, government and parents as the cause your situation.

Sacrifice

Everything you are going to do depends on sacrifice, if you are not ready to make any sacrifice then you are not ready to achieve that life you always dream of. Don’t fear failure because is the one that will keep you going. You might fail 5 times but one success story is enough to set you on track and heal the pain of those failure. Accept failure as a challenge and not as a limitation to achieve greatness in life.