Have you ever played safe? Here’s the kicker… the majority of the time, playing safe is the most dangerous thing that we can ever do.
Listen in as I explain:
- Why regret will zap your happiness and confidence.
- The EFFECTIVE way to evaluate risk.
- How to move past your comfort zone.
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Playing safe is one of the most dangerous ways to live.
– David Wood
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– TRANSCRIPT –
Michael J Maher: [00:00:00] You know, I’m going to ask you right off the bat, like, all right, why is playing safe, possibly the most dangerous thing that we could ever do?
David Wood: [00:00:10] Because of regret. That’s why. See we have good reasons to play safe and I’m a fan of sometimes playing safe. Maybe we don’t want to risk rocking the boat in our relationship.
Maybe we don’t want to get divorced. Maybe we don’t want to risk losing our job. Oh, this client who annoys the hell out of us. So there are good reasons for playing safe, but on our death, is that what we want to say? Do you want to say I played it really safe? I never missed anything. So I never found out what would happen if I asked that woman out or what if I confessed to my partner that I broke an agreement, maybe we could have become closer together or I could have, you know, changed my behavior in some way.
What if I had gone for it in my business, and really found out if the world wanted this or not? There’s a book called Five Regrets Of The Dying. One of the things that people regretted most on their death bed was that they live someone else’s life or that they didn’t ask for what they wanted enough.
Or they didn’t say no when something wasn’t working for them. So that’s the reason. Regret on our deathbed. And I don’t want anyone to have that experience. I want every listener, including you and myself, that when that time comes and we’re done with this world, we can say I gave it everything. I left everything out there on the field.
And and yeah, sure. I stubbed my knee and my toe along the way. And sure. I lost some things, but I didn’t leave myself wondering what if I truly express myself and gone for everything I wanted.
Michael J Maher: [00:01:47] So it’s risk or.
David Wood: [00:01:49] I think so. Now there are times when we’ll do something and then we’ll regret that we did it.
So we took the risk. I’m like, can I take that back, please, God? But I think it was Mark Twain that said 20 years from now we’ll regret by far the things that we didn’t do more than the things that we did do. And I found that true in my life. Now to get there though. Like if we want those rewards that lie just on the other side of the comfort zone, there’s no alternative that I’m aware of, but to practice deliberate discipline.
Well, you have to go and suck it up and go and have that conversation with our employee who’s late to every meeting. And we have to be uncomfortable for the rewards that lie on the other side. Maybe we have go and take a cold shower when the body’s screaming at us, this is freezing, I shouldn’t be doing it. To get the health benefits on the other side the way to do it.
Okay. I’m willing to be uncomfortable and I’m willing to face the consequences of this not going well.
