7 Risks You Must Take in Life

1. Risk of Being Honest

With yourself and everyone else.

You have to be honest. The alternative is to be a liar, and history has been unkind to liars, even the petty ones.

Dishonesty is just the delay of the truth but with worse repercussions!

Stop saying things you don’t mean.

Stop saying YES when you actually want to say NO.

Stop living a lie and most importantly, stop lying to yourself!

The only way up is to find the truth and build from it.

There’s a risk in judgment when telling the truth or showing your vulnerability, but every lie incurs a debt to the truth and a burden to carry with you for the rest of your life.

It takes some serious balls and dedication to improving yourself to be vulnerable like that.

2. Risk of Being Yourself When Everyone Wants You to Be Someone Else

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Who are you? You’re more than your clothes, the things you buy, the home you live in.

You’re more than what your parents taught you when you were 7 years old.

You’re more than the trauma you’ve suffered growing up.

You’re an individual! You’re separate from everything else. You’re not what your uncle thinks you are or should be. You’re not what your parents wish you were. You’re not what your friends see you as. You’re not even all of those things combined.

You’re an ever-changing identity that absorbs what it needs and finds useful in order to craft itself out of pure chaos!

The moment you realize how short life is and how meaningless the expectations of others are in terms of real impact on your existence, the second phase of your life begins That of finding who the hell you are and then living as that person!

3. Risk of Having Your Own Metrics for Success

Here’s the paradox of success:

Success is a self-fulfilling game!

The only real way to win is to decide that you have won the game.

Otherwise, you will be in constant pursuit of something that you’ll never catch up with.

Even if you achieve what other people consider success if it’s not your own consideration you will not feel like you’ve made any progress in life.

This is how people end up hating their lives despite having a high-profile job or making a lot of money. If it doesn’t meet your own metrics for success you will feel like a failure, like you could’ve done more or be happier doing something else.

4. Risk of Bringing Change to Your Inner Circle and Community

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Whenever you introduce a new idea to any group of people you will get immediate pushback. Nobody likes change, but change is necessary! — for growth, for survival… for long-term happiness.

They love the status quo, they love stability because stability doesn’t require them to alter their behavior. “I’m not getting killed by a lion doing what I’m doing right now… so why do you ask me to change.. Who knows that dangers lie in the darkness of the unknown?!”

But it’s thanks to the people who don’t listen to the masses, those who are keen on optimizing life for efficiency, comfort, and progress.

It is only after you’ve changed their life that people figure out what kind of impact you actually had

5. Risk of Getting the Person of Your Dreams

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Risk putting yourself out there. Risk telling people how you feel. Go for the perfect 10.

Build the life you always wanted to build next to the right person.

There’s a risk in settling for what’s easy and available. Most people are unhappy in their choice of life partners and this is the sole result of being scared to take the risk of finding the right one.

For them, the risk of ending up alone is higher than the perceived return of an amazing spouse.

It’s the mindset and the soul of the person that’s going to go the distance, not the money or good looks!

6. Risk of Ridicule in Exchange for Making Your Dreams Come True

Criticism and ridicule are part of the process.

Think of it as the cost of entry to the joyride that is the good life.

Who cares what they think?! Who cares if they don’t like you? You don’t even like THEM!

People are intimidated by those who go after it.

They’re scared of seeing other people succeed because it serves as proof that success is achievable. Their only hope is to intimidate you into giving up on your dreams, so you don’t get the chance to prove them wrong.

The risk fades away when you realize that these people are irrelevant to your journey, even if they’re part of your inner circle and their words might hurt.

7. Risk of Being in the Public Eye

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The evolution of the previous point is acting in the public eye. This is where everyone begins to look at you..

There’s a conflicting thing happening within each and every one of us, that on one hand wants the world to acknowledge us, we want to be seen, but not looked at in detail and analyzed.

That’s the paradox of fame. The better you are at what you do the more fame comes your way. Fame is not the problem, but the celebrity status that comes with it.

You want to be famous for what you do, but not become a celebrity!

We think there’s a sweet spot between the two.

Invest in your image, assume risk under your own name, say what you will do, and do what you say, but don’t get caught up in the whirlwind of status-signaling. Stay humble but do phenomenal work!

Embrace risk, we know that at some point in your past you did and because of it your life is now better. Share that story with us in the comments:

When was the last time you took a risk and it worked out?

Allow other people to learn from your journey and maybe you’ll learn some from theirs!

I don’t have a crystal ball…

I can’t tell you where you’ll be 30 days from now after taking the Challenge…

But I will ask you this…

>>>Where will your business be 30 days from now if you DON’T accept this mission?

If your honest answer is “probably in the same place”, then I think you know what you need to do…

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I’d love for you to join me, so we can go through it together!