From Seth Godin: The real question might not be, “what do you want,” it might be, “what do you care enough to compromise for?”
Or as Paula Pant says, “you can afford anything, but you can’t afford everything.”
Everything in life comes with a trade off, whether that includes trading time, money, or some other commodity. You can’t have everything for nothing. This is a basic concept that people know to be true, but for some reason they hope that it doesn’t apply to them. They want to win the lottery or take a magic pill to cure them of all of their real or perceived problems.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), that’s not how the world works. To get what you want in life, you often have to work hard and make sacrifices to get there. You can clearly see this when looking at someone else’s situation, but are blinded when it comes to your own situation. Don’t be blinded by greed or unrealistic optimism (is there actually a chance of that happening?)…