Maxwell's law of sacrifice in leadership and personal application

Leadership Laws and Principles

I believe that one of the most apropos laws of leadership that Maxwell explicates in his 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership is law # 18: the law of sacrifice. I believe that this law can relate to my personal life in a fairly salient way. After I have children, it will be necessary for me to make a number of different sacrifices in order to help lead them to a future in which they can attain all the sorts of success and promise that I want for their young lives. Parents are actually leaders for their children; the latter play the most fundamental role in helping these young people to learn how to live life and to get what they want from the world. Parents also have to make a number of sacrifices in order to give their children the things that they need to grow up well and be able to contribute to society. Primarily, that sacrifice will mean that I can no longer just live for the sake of myself or my spouse, but give up such attention to my needs to bestow it upon my children.

A likely scenario in my future professional work that will bring the law of sacrifice into action involves me owning my own law firm. As such, I will have numerous employees that I will have to account for, and ensure that their immediate needs are met so that they can sustain the firm. Thus, it will be necessary for me to work harder than everyone else to not only make sure that they are all doing their jobs accordingly, but also to make sure that they have the requisite tools and knowledge to do their work. This degree of oversight will require a significant amount of sacrifice on my part. I will have to get to work before the others and stay after they leave to monitor their progress. As such, I will have to sacrifice my own personal time and attention that could be given to my family to make sure that the needs of my employees are met.