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b'If anyone wants success, whether in business as an entrepreneur or in sports, you must be willing to sacrifice. Time is at least part of that investment to be used effectively for success.\\n\\nI discuss the Importance of Sacrifice for your Future.\\n\\nAt midnight, your day starts. You are given 86,400 seconds. They expire at the end of the day. How will you use them?\\n\\nExtremely Good Results require sacrifice, but we can discuss the idea and need for a balanced life. So, what does that balanced life mean?\\n\\nSuccess is brought by a combination of factors and you can do\\xa0better than someone who is truly better skilled! I explain how.\\n\\nThomas:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Welcome to episode 11 of Life Unsettled \\u2013 New Path, Better Future. This episode is about sacrifice, and the importance of sacrifice to your future. No, sacrifice doesn\\u2019t have to be a lifelong thing; it can be very, very temporary and yield extremely good results.\\n\\nLet me explain. Looking to my background, I didn\\u2019t really have any optimistic vision of a great future or a professional future of any kind. I realized, though, a few things while in the military. While in the military, my eyes were opened considerably. I realized, of course, that college was going to be important, but not just college as an end to itself, but something that went probably a little bit beyond college, whether it be a professional school, a law school, whatever the case may be, it had to be something beyond that.\\n\\nNow, how was I going to get there? I didn\\u2019t think a whole lot of myself at the time, but I did realize one thing, that even if I may be not as good as many other people, if I put more effort in that they did, that is: if I put in 20% more effort than everybody else, then I would probably have much better results than them. Then I started thinking about college and what that would mean. I had about three years left of college.\\n\\nAs a backdrop, I\\u2019ll point out some of the things I\\u2019ve done in the past or point you in a direction so you can look them up, but I looked at what I had done in college, what I could do in college, and I said: \\u201cGee, there\\u2019s about three years left, the last semester doesn\\u2019t matter because you\\u2019re already approved or accepted to whatever you\\u2019re going into, so it\\u2019s really about another two and a half years. Gee, if I could turn around and push myself for two and a half years, that could be the ticket to the rest of my life.\\u201d That\\u2019s the way I looked at it.\\n\\nI did some things. Like, I said: \\u201cOkay, I\\u2019m going to give up TV.\\u201d What I did instead is I put on classical music or something, just backgrounds that filled the air. I said classical music, because I didn\\u2019t want to have some music that might have meaning or cause other thoughts to be in my mind, other than being able to concentrate. When I say eliminate everything like TV, I mean everything except NCIS, except whatever other great show you have out there, Person of Interest, etc. because even if you\\u2019re looking at those, the person that\\u2019s not doing it is moving ahead of you.\\n\\nIt sounds like a lot, but consider: it\\u2019s two and a half years for the next 40, 50, or more years. So really, it is a small investment. It\\u2019s just like saving a little bit of time. If you haven\\u2019t, go take a listen to what Steve Thompson did in episode two, starting out with only putting aside $50 a month.\\n\\nI went into Hofstra University, worked like that, worked really hard seven days a week, and was well rewarded; got a lot of accolades, positions, and everything else. I was actually one of the two faculty representatives to the Board of Trustees. I also was offered the Danforth, Rhodes, and Rotary Fellowship nominations for Hofstra.\\n\\nWhen you take a look at my bio on the Life Unsettled website, you see some of the things I\\u2019ve done over time. Where did these come from? The ticket for all of them were in that set up for that two and a half years. Little bit of sacrifice, little bit of investment. It may seem like a lot when you think two and a half...'