Risky is the New Safe (16 page)

The many years I have been studying the principles of prosperity have brought me to a few fascinating realizations:

• Healthy people think differently than sick people.
  
• Happy people think differently than depressed people.
  
• Wealthy people think differently than broke people.
  

Healthy people have more energy and find it easier to exercise. They're eating a healthier diet so they face less physiological cravings for bad stuff. People who enjoy good health have a totally different view about things like diet, exercise, and addictions than people who are sick.

Happy people face challenges just like depressed people do. But nothing has any meaning, except what we choose to give it. Depressed people might see a challenge as an insurmountable obstacle, while happy people see it as a wake-up call from the universe to make a course correction.

Take the same opportunity and offer it to a broke person and wealthy person, and I guarantee you they will see it differently. When I was poor, I looked at everything through the lens of the mind viruses I was infected with. No matter what business venture I was exposed to, I approached it with the beliefs that you need money to make money; you need an education and have to know people; and so on. I could look at anything and immediately give you 15 reasons why it wouldn't work. While I was accumulating all the evidence why it couldn't be done, people with prosperity consciousness were simply doing it.

For those many years I was struggling financially, I was a cynic. And nothing kills innovation, creativity, and ambition faster than cynicism. It's poverty consciousness.

Wealthy people have a healthy skepticism that causes them to evaluate things objectively and make good decisions based on solid assumptions. Skepticism is healthy; cynicism never is. Here's why: If you ask the wrong question, the answer doesn't matter.

For all those years when I was mired in poverty consciousness, the questions I asked were always looking for evidence to demonstrate why success wouldn't work for me. When I began to develop prosperity consciousness, the questions began to change to ones of possibilities.

As a coach now, I'm working with some of the brightest entrepreneurial minds on earth. I was also fortunate to be included in a documentary titled,
The Y.E.S. Movie
(Young Entrepreneur Society). Some of the kids featured in this film made millions while they were still in their teens. In addition, I've been blessed to meet and work with a few billionaires. Working with all these high-level achievers offers an intriguing look into their minds and specifically, how they think.

And it certainly isn't conventional
.

They're savvy entrepreneurs and they're as adverse to foolish risk as anyone. The difference is
what
they perceive as risk. They know the safe route always leads to mediocrity, and that is the real risk. They know that unconventional approaches, contrarian thinking, and innovation—which sometimes means tipping things upside down, and sometimes means beginning with a blank canvas—are where the real magic is.

Every great company—and the entrepreneurs who run them—must be willing to evolve. You must be willing to let go of who you
are
to become who you are
meant to be
. That is the path to epic outcomes.

Be willing to be bold, to think laterally and creatively, to question, and to be a contrarian. Dare to be different; dare to take a risk. Because risky is the new safe!

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