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In This Issue......
1. Evan Till Eleven by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. Risk by Chris Widener
4. Get Fit in Your Body and Mind!
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1. Evan Till Eleven by Ron White
One of my good friends has a little boy named Evan. I call him “Evan Till Eleven” because it rhymes and I am a clown.
When I met them, he was zero. A few weeks after his first birthday, we were at a swimming pool party. Evan had no fear of the water. He kept jumping off the steps of the pool to catch the water shooting out of the fountain. Every time he would jump off the steps, I would catch him because, little did he know, the water was over his head.
Evan did not stand on the steps and ask himself, “Can I reach the water fountain? Can I stand in the water or is it over my head? Can I even SWIM!?”
Instead, this one-year-old jumped and laughed every time I caught him. I then swam him over to fulfill his goal of touching the fountain. He laughed hysterically as he touched the fountain and then I would take him back to the steps and guess what happened? You bet. Evan, again, jumped into the water that was above his head and I caught him and swam him to the fountain. This routine continued for longer than you might think possible.
When Evan is at the bottom of a staircase, he doesn’t say to himself, “WOW! That looks too high for me; I bet others have gotten hurt, or what if I get stuck?” Evan will look at the steps and start up taking one step at a time.
As adults, it would be a good idea to think more like a one-year-old. We let fear stop us from really pursuing our dreams. We wonder what would happen if we failed, got stuck, ran out of money or looked like a fool. Oftentimes, this worry is considering things that may not occur. Please do not misunderstand that analyzing a situation and assessing the risk is not wrong. It is right when it is tempered with some measure of risk and optimism.
In 13 years of running my own business, I have asked myself what would happen if everything went wrong at the same time. However, I did not allow that answer to keep me from jumping off the steps. And you know what? A few years ago, everything did go wrong and things went bust. But, it wasn’t all that bad. I was actually happy to find that the fall wasn’t as bad as I thought, and I swam back to the steps and jumped off again.
Today, I am happily at the fountain I was reaching for. If you are on the steps and you are considering that risk of failure, if it is not a life or death risk, I encourage you to jump. I won’t be there to catch you, but you might be surprised to find that you are caught by your own imagination, drive, work ethic or the hidden hand of your Creator.
Put fear in its place and take a risk. Evan would.
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2. Quotes of The Week
Risk-Taking
“Be like the turtle. If he didn’t stick his neck out, he wouldn’t get anywhere at all.”
—Harvey Mackay
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder.” —William Joseph Slim
“You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.” —Denis Waitley
3. Risk by Chris Widener
(Enjoy this short excerpt from an article by my friend, Chris Widener, expert on the art of influence and best-selling author of Above All Else.)
Once a person sees opportunity, it is up to them to step through the open door and go for it. Yet many stop at the edge, unwilling to take a risk. Many times—often, actually—taking advantage of opportunities requires risk.
“A naval aviator told me that many pilots have died because they stayed with disabled aircraft. They preferred the familiarity of the cockpit to the unfamiliarity of the parachute, even though the cockpit was a deathtrap. Many people have seen their careers crash because they preferred the familiar but deadly old ways to the risky but rewarding new ways.” So says Nido Qubein in Stairway to Success.
It is true that many people who have knowledge and the opportunity to see success, never do, simply because they are unwilling to take risks. As young people we are usually long on risk-taking but short on knowledge and opportunity. This is probably why you don’t see many successful teens driving their own BMWs.
But by the time we are able to do something with our knowledge and opportunity, most of us are in relatively comfortable situations and decide that to pursue our dreams would be to simply risk too much. So we put off what lies in our hearts.
Yet most successful people achieve what they do because somewhere along the line they stepped out in faith and took a risk. Yes, many fail at this point, but at least they attempted greatness. And while many fail, many succeed tremendously and receive the reward, often helping many others as well.
Here are some thoughts to help you take risks and see great achievement in your life.
Count the cost of not risking. Most of us think of what we might lose if we risk, but what will we lose if we don’t risk?
Realistically understand the worst-case scenario. It usually isn’t nearly as bad as we might assume, making it all the more worthwhile to risk. Most risks don’t end up at the worst.
Calculate your risk. Since the risk isn’t as much as we usually think it is, it helps to lay out the strategy beforehand. Then you know what you’re up against and have a plan of action.
Prepare fully. What most often keeps us from risk is fear. One of the best ways to fight fear is to be fully prepared. This helps our minds to be rooted in fact rather than swayed by emotion.
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