(TOT) Thought on Thursday - Take that risk

Last week I had some extra free time on my hands and I spent much of it coaxing myself into scary and/or risky situations. Although it's 4:00 AM as I type this I still have a smile on my face because the risk taking has paid dividends.

As a result of some of the risks I took - i.e. Cold calls. - I have:

• Sat down for coffee/water/lunch with 3 wealthy individuals.
• Found what one wealthy individual would pay $100,000 for.
• Gotten advice on where to direct my energy from another wealthy individual. 
• Gotten an offer of possible funding of business ideas from another. 
• Found a possible untapped need in a market - that I'm testing out.

Now granted, one of these individuals is a relative but, with that being said - I have the opportunity to meet with yet another individual I hold in high esteem in the next several days who hangs out in the C-Suite of the company he helped build.

It's so funny how risk adverse we are when what we consider risky would have likely been shrugged off by our ancestors.

I can only imagine what my ancestors - who were slaves - would have thought if I told them that the only thing between me living like a slave and living like a master was talking to a bunch of people I don't know and enduring a difficult conversation or two.

I cannot fathom to deal with what they had to deal with or for that matter what man's prehistoric ancestors had to deal with when their biggest concern was

"Will I get eaten by a Saber Tooth Tiger Today?"

And not

"Will someone use a 4-letter word to describe me because I interrupted their day?"

It's laughable how we describe risk today and for that reason - if I have time today (after I take a nap) I will be making some cold calls.

TOT - Thought on Thursday - Abe Lincoln once said...

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln

When you stop, sit back and think about it for a second, which is often hard to do in this go-go society that we live in, there are so many reasons to be happy.

To take the simple comparison of say what it was like to live 150 years ago in Lincoln's day.

Then: Mail took days or even weeks to get to simply another state.

Today: It takes nanoseconds to get your message to someone via email.

Then: Something like the measles or the flu could kill you.

Today: Flu-related deaths are a rarity and I can't recall a recent death due to the measles.

Then: If we go back a few decades further - it took Lewis & Clark over THREE YEARS to get from St. Louis to basically what is the outskirts of Seattle today!

Today: The same trip via car could land you in Seattle in under two days assuming you drive in shifts. Even if you took breaks to rest each night and an hour to go site-seeing each day you could easily make the same trip in under a week. Let's not even mention a one-way airplane ticket (4 hours since I mentioned it).

I guess the point is there are so many things we can be thankful for and happy about given that we live in such an advanced time and age.

Who knows, 150 years from now I can only imagine what human descendants complaints will be like for how unhappy they are. If we could peek into the future we'd probably laugh about what they consider to be the major problems of the day.

(TOT) Thought on Thursday - Try Flexitarian

Flexitarian: Someone who is an occasional vegetarian.

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I'm attempting (again) to be a flexitarian on a regular basis. I think the diet is easy on the stomach and the environment while still getting your protein in occasionally too without popping pills.


I love the idea, How about you?