One thing that continues to amaze me is how when trying to make decisions and look at things that could be viewed as risky, you still get those butterflies in your stomach.
All the risks I’ve taken in my life, in business, day-to-day, they all seem so big. They seem so monumental. But when you look back on them, a lot of them that you’ve made and that you’ve succeeded with, there was really no risk at all. Meaning, things that you lost sleep over, things that you worried about, things that you wondered if you were going to be able to survive financially really just fall to pieces in the rearview mirror because they weren’t that big of a risk if you have confidence both in yourself and in what you do.
Now, there are a lot of different kinds of risks. I’m not talking about risking your life climbing up a mountain. But risks in business or a personal relationship where you might be risking a friendship or a future family member because you’re caring for them or worried about them is really what you have to just not let worry you in life.
Taking risks for some people is natural. People might think for me it’s natural, but I always look at them in some regards with a little bit of fear. But once you get through them, once you take them, once you accomplish whatever it is you set out to accomplish, you realize it wasn’t really that much of a risk at all.