How To Lose at Anything

This is a door, and for most people a closed door means safety. For some, a closed door could be a sign of chance or opportunity. No matter how you perceive this door, the person on the outside is the same as the person on the inside.

What does it take to cross that threshold and enter into the unknown. Are you coming out or going in for the first time? How long have you known the door needed to be open? Are you in a comfortable safe space or simply procrastinating? There are often times incentives for holding your position, doing nothing, and finding comfort in the statute quo.

The biggest incentive for me has always been the fear of failure. I would be willing to wager my last honeybun the same is true for most. Now let me qualify that... If you say that you don't have time, you don't have the money, or you are waiting on the right moment/ opportunity, these are the very mechanisms of fear. Given a guarantee that after dedicating nine hours a day for six years, you could not fail, most people will find the time. If I told you that you would have to give every dime you got, but it would be returned ten-thousound fold; droves of people would be breaking the bank. I challenge you to dispute those statements. The point then is clear and thus proven forever more.

I can't remove the chance when going forward or the risk of set backs. I can't even dismantle your fears, yet I've stopped by just the same. I've done so because I have a message for you.

Fear is to success as pain is to body builders, lost to an investor, dirt to farmers, or death to life. Fear is the secret sauce! When you are on the edge of something bigger then you were yesterday all your senses are heighten to protect, guide, and caution you through that threshold. There are just a few movies stars and athletes that were born with the "it" factor, but for the rest of us, we must go head first into the darkness and forge a path to the promiseland of our own makings. The title doesn't explain or imagine that we all can win at everything at anytime.

Take the chance and open that door or dare to enter, but under no circumstances can you afford to remain. Start off with something small but subsequential enough to get your heart racing. Do that a few times until the effect dissipate. Then move on to something much bigger, remember you have to get your heart racing for it to count.

Otherwise you can defer back to doing what you have always done and therefore rendering the results you have always gotten.