Why You Must Take Risks

You have to risk it to get the biscuit.
Ever hear of that one? Its true. The United States was built by risk takers.
Only risk takers get the big rewards. If you go along and do what everyone else and play it safe with your resources safe you aren't ever going to get anywhere.

There has been a lot of TV shows that addressed this fact: Family Guy, Star Trek: The Next Generation, etc. and the jist was the same. The lead character decided that they took too many crazy risks and were whisked back in time to stop the risk taking behavior and then returned to the present. But when they were returned to the present they were faced with a horrible little uninspired life: A small apartment, a cheap car, low on the totem pole and largely unrecognized at work doing menial or unimportant work.

You get out of life exactly what you put into it

Are you in your 40s and broke? Well then you made some bad decisions. Did you graduate college? Did you work hard to get up the ladder or did you slack and do the bare minimum?

The United States is set up for people who break thier ass to get rich. I mean BREAK THEIR ASS. Not just work a few hours a day at it, but have them totally consume them. For example, the guy who started Napster would be up and programming around the clock and basically would live on cokes and microwave food. He would program for 16 hours straight and lose track of the time, and looking up from his computer he noticed it was 6 in the morning. He sat down to code at 4pm the previous day.

Heres a reason why you might not be kicking ass at life:

You are not doing something you are passionate about. Are you just working a job to get a check, so you can make rent and eat food? Working at a place you hate like a hot warehouse? If so, by default, you are going to do the bare minimum. 

Instead I recommend that you decide what really floats your boat and start arranging your life so that you begin to follow that path: Whether it be that its something that you can do in the evening that you can eventually do full time during the day as your main job or just plain follow your dream and quit your day job ( life is short...one day you will no longer be here). You've got to move toward something that lights you up on the inside or you will be living the life of the living dead.

How to tell you are on the wrong path

@ You dread Mondays. You dread Sunday night because you know tomorrow its back to the shit

@ You are not experiencing any thrills or highs. People tend to deaden on the inside when they are doing a monotonous job

@ Sometimes you look at someone thats living life to the fullest and you are jealous. 

@ The money you are making is not what you feel you are worth and you are not living the lifestyle you feel you should be living

@ Sometimes you think "Wouldn't it be great if..." and you feel excitement pretending how kickass your life would be if...

So how do you get on the right path?

How to Get on the Right Path?

Let me give you a direct example using myself. Ive been running this blog for about two months now, and the organic growth has been slow. Its tough to make money with a blog, especially for the first two or three years bar doing any crazy promotional stunt, or following people on youtube on how to quickly build an audience. This is because there is low barrier to entry to starting a blog, and there is over 31 million blogs in the United States alone. Working to get heard amidst all that blogging din is really tough, growth is slow. This is because Im doing what everyone else is doing in order to increase blog traffic.

Again, if you take the same channels that the majority of everyone else is taking, you aren't going to stand out, and you aren't going to make any money. So then it hit me: What if I make duplicate blogs with all my posts in 8 major languages? Russian, French, Hindu, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Portuguese and German? I'm sure my American flavor would be pulling these people in these different countries because I would stand out from the crowd over there: the problem is, it would take a hell of a lot of work translating every blog post with bing translator. First, I have to translate a paragraph into another language. Then I have to translate it back to English to see if it translated correctly, and if it didnt, Ill have to rewrite the paragraph in differently worded English then try again. I then have to translate all of my blog posts and then add some about being American, etc. Ill have to modify the template so that it is found on the russian search engines as a Russian Blog. That is just the Russian version. Ill have to do it all over again for mutliple languages. That is gonna take a shitload of work. 

But it will allow me to stand out from the crowd because no one else is going to want to do that kind of work. So the risk is, what if I do all that work and nothing happens.

And a lot of people would say, Nah, too risky. And so nothing special will happen in thier life and they will stay where they are.

Risk is the first Step to Success

You can sit around and make plans, fill sheets of paper with ideas and formulas but unless you get on up and start and risk it, nothing is going to happen. Big risk differentiates you from most people. For example, Jay Leno, Jim Carrey and Steve Harvey for a while all lived in thier car. They were broke struggling comedians who would do anything to make it, and couldnt afford to stay in hotels while they were on the road, pushing thier comedy brand. How many people would do that while following thier dream? Most people would give up, rent a room, and work any local job they could to satisfy thier IMMEDIATE requirements for food, shelter, etc. These guys put off temporary comfort and LET IT RIDE chasing their dream.

I would like you to go onto Amazon and purchase this book (no I dont get commission. I have the book myself): Its called Now is the Time to Crush It. The guy who wrote this book gives a formula on how with no money, the internet, social media, and a lot of hustle how to become a multimillionare in any field you can think of while starting this business online.

One of the best books to purchase when looking to start an online business or blog

As a matter of fact, the way the United States is moving toward having no middle class, you cant afford NOT to risk it. You are going to have to start your own business, start that passion that would have you bound happily out of bed in the morning, satisfied that every bit of effort you expend during the day goes into growing your business and putting money in your pocket instead of someone else's.

Risk is currency. Risk is giving your life respect. Risk has defined our very society. Without risk, there would be no railroads, no steel for skyscrapers, no internet, no Facebook, no Google. Risk pushes us to increase our lives, our lifestyle into new boundaries. Risk is life. Without Risk there is stagnation and eventual death as Risk allows us to eventually find new avenues of existence, new doorways that we can use to grow and expand. Growth is necessary for us as a species, and Risk is the catalyst.

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