This is the TRUE Cost of Not Trying

What’s up, all you beautiful people? Welcome back to the pod. We are out here. God, isn’t this beautiful? Lago de garda. Very beautiful italian little village, right? Beautiful lake over here. And I just want to take you guys on a morning walk. I wrote about this last week, this simple tweet I want to share with you guys, because it’s a very powerful concept. I think it can bring you just a tremendous amount of value if you can. If you can use it to get out of your own way.

So here’s how it goes. It says, you will be mocked and ridiculed if you try and fail. You will be torn down if you try and succeed, but you will be nothing if you don’t at least try. Here’s the truth about trying and moving towards your greatness, is that when we try and when we fail, and when we step out outside of our comfort zone and go try something new, and we start to explore the periphery of our capacity, the people in our lives, the ones that are closest to us, that mean the best that have known us our entire lives, they know where our capacity is. They can recognize, hey, you’re stepping outside the lines right now. That’s stupid. That’s dangerous. They will be right when they say this, because it is stupid.

It is dangerous. So they will ridicule you. They will mock you when you step out and when you try. And if you fail, they will be the first ones to step up and say, I told you so. If you step out and you succeed, well, they will have been there the whole time now telling you why you’re bad or why this is wrong, why your pursuit of a healthy lifestyle. I get this all the time from my family. You’re too obsessed with health. This is coming from people who are objectively, morbidly obese, telling me I am too obsessed with health, people telling me who are coming to me, asking me for money, telling me that my obsession with finance and with money is unhealthy, borderline evil.

So if you try and you succeed, you will be torn down. If you try and you fail, you’ll be ridiculed. But that only leaves one option. One third option is that if you try, rather, if you don’t try, if you fear the ridicule, if you fear being torn down by people you love and you decide, I will not step out, I will stay where I am, then you will be nothing. You will not accomplish the great things that you were put on this planet to accomplish. And I don’t necessarily believe in a higher power or anything like that. I just believe that everybody this planet is born for, to do something extraordinary. I believe you are the center of your own universe and that you have the power to forge and to craft that universe into whatever it pleases you, into whatever, into whatever format you believe is a worthy pursuit.

And it just breaks my heart to see people who hold themselves back, who limit their potential, who never step out, they never try, because they fear the ridicule of loved ones. They fear being torn down, and so they do nothing and they stay exactly where they are, where everybody else is. I don’t want that for you. But the only way you can get outside of that, the only solution is to go and try it is to do the thing that you’re afraid to do, the thing that the people in your life tell you is a bad idea. The only way, if you want to be extraordinary, you have to do things that are not, by definition, ordinary. You have to be prepared to be mocked. You have to be prepared to be different. If you want to live a different lifestyle, that is the price you must pay.

It doesn’t make it easier knowing that you have to pay it, but at least knowing what the price tag is and saying, I am willing to pay this, that’s the first step. And I, and I hope you do take that first step, because I do believe everybody listening to this podcast, there is greatness inside of you. You would not be here, you would not be called to listening to this on this wonderful, beautiful day of whatever day it is that you’re listening to this, you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t have that potential for greatness. Now, one last thing before I sign off here is that the people you look up to, the most successful people that you, you look up to, whether that’s authors, performers, writers, CEO’s, or whatever it is, I don’t care. It doesn’t matter. Anybody that you look up to in life, they’re only there because they’re standing atop a larger pile of failures than you. They are only above you because they are standing atop a larger pile of failures than you. And here’s the thing I want you to understand, is that the successful people that you look up to, they’re not there because they were smarter or more competent or more capable than you.

They were just too stupid to quit. So keep that in mind, get out of your own way and go try hard today. I’ll see you in the next episode. Ciao, Bella.