How to Live Daringly

“Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.” ~ Henry J. Kaiser

Life is a daring adventure no matter your station in life, business or calling. You can never get somewhere unless you are prepared to dare and to brave the consequences. Staying focused and the ability to persist no matter the odds is the hallmark of great champions whether in business, in life or in any field of human endeavor. One great American statesman John Calvin Coolidge left these immortal lines to the world, "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

You must decide to live daringly, boldly and fearlessly if you want to achieve anything worthwhile in this world. As H. Ross Perot tells us, "Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown."

Get busy right now because…. “No pains, no gains. To get the prize, you must pay the price.”

How to Unleash Your Creative Instincts

“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” ~ Richard Branson

Yes indeed! If you don’t love what you are doing, just don’t do it anymore. When your business becomes fun, it no longer presents itself as work but you earn money all the same. Doing what you love doing and you are having fun doing gets you ahead very quickly to the astonishment of onlookers. When your business is involving and it is fun, all your creative energies get unleashed without too much effort. You do better and achieve more doing what you love to do thereby succeeding faster and better. According to Wayne Dyer, "There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

Many ordinary folks do like to try their hands at doing things but many are always afraid of failure. Don't be afraid to fail. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. It is fruitless doing so. What matters is to learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. If you love what you do and you do it with fun, things flow along smoothly whether you are failing or succeeding matters very little. As Richard M. DeVos likes to say, "The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible." And with faith, all things are possible.

Get busy right now because…. “No pains, no gains. To get the prize, you must pay the price.”