Give Up What You Want for What You Want More
Choose, and then stop mourning what you did not choose. That is the cost Elsie Lincoln Benedict names in How to Get Anything You Want, and she does not let you dodge it. Success, she writes, requires a willingness to give up what you want for what you want more. Not what you do not want — what you genuinely want, set down on purpose, so your hands are free for the thing you want more. ...