<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" title="Mark Sanborn" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/mark-sanborn-13.jpeg" alt="Mark Sanborn" />It is possible to pay too much for success. To paraphrase a well-known verse from scripture, what does it profit us to gain the whole world if we lose our souls?</p>
<p>How can anyone keep moving up in life without selling out? If you achieve significant results while at the same time being true to your values, principles and beliefs, you will enjoy great success in life.</p>
<p>There are many ways that we can “sell out.” Be careful of these:</p>
<p><strong>We sell out when:</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. Our behaviors are inconsistent with our values.</strong> <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2013/03/7-things-people-do-to-sell-out-and-how-to-avoid-them/" title="Permanent Link: 7 Things People Do to Sell Out (and How to Avoid Them)" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1798,"date":"2013-03-12T23:22:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T04:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2017-09-30T13:45:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T18:45:22","slug":"7-things-people-do-to-sell-out-and-how-to-avoid-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/03\/7-things-people-do-to-sell-out-and-how-to-avoid-them\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Things People Do to Sell Out (and How to Avoid Them)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Mark Sanborn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/mark-sanborn-13.jpeg\" alt=\"Mark Sanborn\" \/>It is possible to pay too much for success. To paraphrase a well-known verse from scripture, what does it profit us to gain the whole world if we lose our souls?<\/p>\n<p>How can anyone keep moving up in life without selling out? If you achieve significant results while at the same time being true to your values, principles and beliefs, you will enjoy great success in life.<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways that we can \u201csell out.\u201d Be careful of these:<\/p>\n<p><strong>We sell out when:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Our behaviors are inconsistent with our values.<\/strong> <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/03\/7-things-people-do-to-sell-out-and-how-to-avoid-them\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: 7 Things People Do to Sell Out (and How to Avoid Them)\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}