Chase objectives worthy of sacrifice instead of sacrifices worthy of attention.

There are two ways to end up giving things up. One is choosing a goal genuinely worth the cost and paying it deliberately. The other is arranging visible sacrifices because they signal seriousness, the late nights and the skipped holidays that mostly demonstrate commitment rather than producing anything. The second is far more common and much easier to mistake for the first.

List what you have given up recently and check whether each one actually moved the work forward. Some will turn out to be theatre. Cut one of those this week and see whether anything at all changes in the results.