Steps to Prosperity #2 - Risk VS. Reward
Everything in nature happens with the least effort. Plants don't try to grow, they just grow. Animals don't try to mate, they just do. Humans have become a bit more complex; our minds have "rules" regarding everything. We learned how to complicate things and live through a highly developed (mostly negative) mind.
A strong mind untempered with wisdom is a disaster. Therefore, being a bumbling idiot like Forrest Gump is more advantageous than being a heavy-thinker without wisdom.
This is common today, as you see anxiety everywhere and unbridled fears being projected into the world. People have accumulated an information overload, like heaps of garbage piling up at the transfer station. Wisdom is precious and rare, like a Pink Star Diamond.
How do you know when you are on the right path?
When you are on the right path, desire will flow downstream and you will feel exhilarated. One of the keys to knowing that you are on the right path is a feeling of joy. When you feel joy, you are in your natural state of being.
Excitement is always your compass towards getting what you truly want.
When we engage with our mind often, we end up pushing against the rules we set up. Most often, these rules represent all the reasons why we can’t be, do, and have what we truly desire.
You make the rules in life that you are judged by. The only one judging you is you.
If you need to know the right direction in life and you are at a crossroads, simply stop and ask within. See the outcome.
Does the direction you are about to take feel peaceful or resistant internally? After the consequences shake out, will you feel contentment and satisfaction?
Every action has consequences. Even taking no action is still an action. You can’t avoid gambling in life, so you might as well know how to win.
Reframing the way you look at risk and reward is a good first step to qualifying your actions.
Inverse Risk vs. Reward Thinking
There is a subtle art in contemplating risk vs. reward. To become prosperous, you have to activate FAITH at every crossroads in which a critical decision must be made. Everything is about perspective!
The sinking of the Titanic was a miracle received that day for the lobsters in the kitchen.
Regardless of what your idea of success is, this isn’t about who is right or wrong.
If you want to live a simple life and avoid risk, then do so. However, if you are a big thinker and would rather stick a fork in your eye than work at a job, then I can relate to you.
Live true to your own self. If you don’t, you will break your own rules.
The punishment is harsh when you do this, trust me. Do not break your own rules!
Which decision is the best to take now?
If you feel a sense of inner peace when making a decision, it is most likely the right action for you. It is not necessary to create a life full of resistance and put yourself in the hospital with a stress-related disease to find significance in life. Mental friction is destroying your hopes and dreams.
The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.
Action will be required, but it will be "inspired action" that occurs at the right time, and the right place. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.
Inspired action can turn in a new direction, in a red-hot moment.
Inspired action comes from a place of "knowing" and not thinking. It’s beyond the mind. When you discover the path of least resistance, all of your dreams and desires will be manifested quickly. You will barely contain the velocity of the expansion and growth.
