Personal sacrifice for career success

MEETING MINUTES – GROUP: 2
Time: from 2h to 5h .date : 10th , 19th, 22 th … March,2016…….
Place: ……classroom ……………………………………………………………
Members: Nguyễn Thị Hồng Hạnh - Group leader

Contents for discussing :
- Looking for the relevant document
- Collecting material for a discussion
- Assign tasks work to everyone
- Adding up
Conclusion: everyone worked hard and enthusiasmly
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Introductory : Hong Hanh

Head of the team (signature and name)


I.Introduction
Nowadays, with the hustle and bustle of modern life, people tend to be involved in their own
work because they want to achieve career success. However, everything has pros and cons, if
you desire the career advancement, you will have to sacrifice your personal life. It means that in
order to move forward, something must be left behind, everybody knows that the road to success
should always be accompanied by sacrifices. These sacrifices, we couldn’t illustrate it in a
sentence or so. Therefore, we are here today to discuss thoroughly about “ personal sacrifice for
career success”
Our topic is divided into 3 main parts:
- Introduction
- Body with concept of career success and personal sacrifice, benefit of success, sorts of personal
sacrifice as well as the way to balance work and life

- Conclusion

II. Body
1. Concept of career success and personal sacrifice
There is a question that: “ what is the success?” Famous? High salary? High position? Or
simply, have a job that you like? Depending on the particular people, they will have different
answers. Some people think a successful career is one that makes you feel happy to go to work
each day. Others say that the success including the process stand up from failure without losing
the enthusiasm. Most people consider career success to be the chain of small continuous
achievements to form a big achievement which has an important role in one’ career. By taking
that big achievement, we are successful in career.
General speaking, personal sacrifice is something you lose then get something else as the
compensation. Following the result, we could assess the sacrifice to be much or not much, worth
or not worth. Success in career brings us a lot of things such as money, fame, prestige...but it also
deprives us of a real life.

2. Benefit of success
Obviously, nobody tries to get something without the benefit at all and career success is not
exception. It is what everybody wants the forward direction and has a lot of effort. From this,
people can get many things such as money, status, power, relationship, improvement and
positive emotion.


1. Money
Achieving career success means that you duly have a great job with a high salary and earn a lot
of money. You succeed and you become rich. From that, you can do abundant things that you
long for such as helping the poor, travelling around the world, shopping, investing,…

2. Status
When you succeed means you already have a solid career. Your position in society becomes

higher; besides, you will be given lots of respects by your colleagues, the staff and become a
good leader in your company. In addition, your family will extremely proud of you. Many people
know to you and that is the dream of almost people

3. Power
Power is something that people want to achieve. Having power in the hands, you can do many
things that you want. Once successful, it seems that level of your impact also takes off
significantly.

4. Relationship
To succeed as expected, surely you must have many relations. When you get a promotion, you
will have chance to extend your relationship and meet many people in more status. This can help
you easier work and in life.

5. Improving yourself
Success comes to those who always try and have aspirations in life, they set new plans and try
their hardest to achieve it. Hence, they have more and more experience, skills, knowledge and
responsibility,…

6. Positive emotion
When you are successful in your career, you will be glad and happy. It is the positive emotion
due to getting closer to your career goals down the line, being able to do what you want and
dedicating for society…


3.Kinds of personal sacrifice
1. Time
When we sacrifice time, we’re prioritising a certain task over another one. That task and all the
others we accomplish – are the key to our success.I write to-do lists every day and I stick to
them. I set my own deadlines. I try my best not to procrastinate. But if I do, I don’t beat myself

up about it. Negative self-talk and thinking, “I wish I had more time” simply takes away the time
you still have! You can think, “I only have 20 minutes to do my work.” or you can think more
positively, “I have 20 minutes to do my work. If I use this time wisely, I’ll be 20 minutes closer
to finishing the task.” If we don’t make better use of our time and achieve our small goals, then
we’ll never achieve the bigger ones that are most important to us.

2. Personal life
When we are determined to succeed, we have to make changes in our personal lives – in our
friendships and our relationships. It’s not about neglecting your loved ones – it’s about working
around your personal life.Each one of us has their responsibilities and sometimes we simply have
to compromise with other people. If we don’t learn to say ‘no’ or give up a night out with friends
to study/work, we are the ones who suffer. These are the moments in our life when we have to
think of our needs, be sensitive to our loved ones’ feelings and hope that they’ll understand that
we need to do what’s best for us.

3. Stability
In order to follow your dreams, you had to sacrifice stability. This also includes security and
comfortability because having less money to pay the bills is certainly uncomfortable. But in your
eyes its worth it.
It’s not the most ideal way to live your life, but it’s a sacrifice you have to make to move your
career forward.
Successful people have to deal with instability, financial or otherwise, and their life can feel like
a roller-coaster. But the good news is that roller coasters go down but they also come back up. If
we don’t risk stability, we’re giving up the chance to ma ke our lives better.

4. Health and beauty
The reality is, when you’re determined to achieve your goals, you might start to neglect our
bodies and your minds. You start to eat less healthy, do less exercise or maybe reduce it to none
at all, you might even put your emotional and mental health at risk. It may not be the most ideal
thing to do, but those determined to be successful know that it’s only a temporary solution.

You may not be able to put your full attention into your physical, mental and emotional health
but you have to be aware of when your body is being overworked. You must realize when you
have gone too far.
Successful people may start to neglect parts of their life in order to improve other parts of their
life. But this can only last for a while. Sooner or later you have to live a healthier life or you’ll
regret it in the future.
When your workload is too big, you'll feel stressful. Enduring stress, you will be faced with
psychological problems such as callous feelings, negative thoughts in work and life, depression,
even with heavily stressful situations. Moreover, sleep is a kind of sacrifice that may make a
businessman successful. Instead of oversleeping, you will have more time to get things done and
prepare yourself for the day. For women, if you are too busy with your job to take care of
yourselves, you may look older than your real age.

5. Money and income.
You want to have a successful career, you have to sacrifice many things to achieve, athought it is
the important stuff, like money and incomes. When you want to invest in a domain, you need a
lot of money. But may be due to the opportunity or luck that you did not succeed, so that money
was lost.But in return, you have more experience to firmer times.
I think that it is a worthy sacrifice. The logic is simple : If you do an average job and save some
money, you will earn an average income. If you do an extraordinary job by spending some of
your money, you can earn an extraordinary income.
Example, such as billionaires Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Jackma, ... always invest money in
large projects, differences in search of new opportunities and to earn more money. But you also
should not be too risky investing your money to career succeed, you need to calculate carefully
and know the experience which is drawn by the failure investment before.

6. Hobbies and interests.
You have to workday and night because of overloading. You do not even have time to take care

of yourself, just eat it quickly and then come back to your seat at work. Sometime you’ll have to
get up very early to arrange a meeting or perform a job for smoothly. You have to stay up all
night to work, self-talk and concern about the future of themselvesand the company. So you do
not have time for hobbies and other interests. To achieve big goals, you necessarily have to
sacrifice some other things. There are many things that you want right now. You want to go
shopping, you want to go out with your friends… But the question is – what is most important to
you? Everyone has hobbies and interests. However, when you sacrifice it, whether you’re saving
time and energy for more important things? It will make you closer to the real goal of yourself. If


you want to success and get what you really want in life, you will have to sacrifice. But when
you reach your target, you will be very glad you did not give up.

4. How to balance?
1.Work to LIVE. Don't LIVE to work.
Working is necessary and hard working is surely not bad but you need to find the
right balance to keep your body healthy. Some rest is always necessary and that is
something that the so called "workaholics" many times forget.
You should learn how to manage your time, manage your priorities and use technology to
manage your work.
Manage time in increments. Play a game with yourself by competing against the clock. Work in
fifteen minute, half hour or hour intervals,scientifically it is known that 45 minutes work
followed by a 10 minutes rest is the best for the average student. Give yourself a time goal to
complete a portion of a task or the entire task.
Goal Setting: To start managing time effectively, you need to set goals. When you know where
you're going, you can then figure out what exactly needs to be done, in what order. Without
proper goal setting, you'll fritter your time away on a confusion of conflicting priorities.
Prioritization: Prioritizing what needs to be done is especially important. Without it, you may
work very hard, but you won't be achieving the results you desire because what you are working
on is not of strategic importance.

2.Make a list of things you’d like
Most people have a "to-do" list of some sort. The problem with many of these lists is they are
just a collection of things that need to get done. There is no rhyme or reason to the list and,
because of this, the work they do is just as unstructured. So how do you work on To Do List
tasks – top down, bottom up, easiest to hardest?

3.Make some time for fun
Focus on your most productive time of day: For example: Some people work better in the
morning, and some are more focused in the evening.


III. Conclusion

There are many different ways in which you can work toward advancing your career. However,
not at all of these may be pleasant. Sometimes, you will have to sacrifices in order to advance
your career and you have to decide whether your career is worth these sacrifices.If you want to
be successful and achieve what you really want in life, you’ll have to make sacrifices.
Do not think about the sacrifice on literally. You will have to give up some things, sure, but try
to think of them as a form of investment. You have to give lavish invisible things in exchange for
what is better on the life and career path.
Success has never been easy and it always comes at a price. So we should learn how to create
balanced life. If you really want to fulfill your potential and challenge yourself, making sacrifices
will be inevitably be a part of the process but in the long run, they’ll pay dividends.