How to be Courageous Like a Lion and Take on More Risks

I was recently talking to my business partner, friend, and brother about taking risks. We were talking about taking risks in our lives and how it’s not so scary when you know the benefits.

As we were talking he always thought this was something I was good at. And, he clearly knew what was the reason.

I had courage!

Ever since I was a kid I had courage. So as the years went by this stuck with me and I’m extremely grateful for it.

Would you like to have the courage so you can easily take risks?

 In this article I’m going to share with you how I developed my courage over the years so that I could take calculated risks.

Are you ready to get started?

First of all...When I take risks, I do them one bite at a time.

Let me explain. When I think of all of the great things I want to do in my life, I add them to my dream board. (Do you have a dream board?) Before you know it, my dream board is cluttered with a plethora of goals.

Since I have all of these goals waiting to be reached, I’m reminded of them every day I walk into my office. Rather than worry about all of them, I hone in on one goal in particular.

I get so laser focused, it’s like there are beams of light coming out of my eyes.

Perhaps you have something already like this but your not reaching any of them. Well, this is were it gets really interesting. Now, I must admit, when I was talking to my brother about this I didn’t know what it was I do but all that I did know was it worked.

So this really challenged to dig deep and uncover this mystery I had within me.

WARNING! WARNING! This is going to be a long article, so you better cancel your plans for the next 15 minutes because I’m about to lay a bombshell on you.

I assure you, you have never heard anything like this before. I created this myself and no one knows – except for you now. :)

With that, here are four ways in how I developed the courage to being a great risk taker:

1. The First Born Syndrome

Being the first born in my family, I came out of the womb with a checklist of things I was implanted with in order to make this world a better place.

When you’re the first born who later turns into big brother/sister, suddenly you feel a sense to rise up by setting a very good example. This doesn’t always work for everyone, but most do experience it at some point.

Let’s be honest now, if you love your family, then you definitely want to see the best for them. Well, the only way that is going to happen is if you do the very thing you would love to see them do.

For me the first born syndrome has served me very well. I’ve been able to set a very good example for my family. Not to mention, I’ve taken this philosophy with me my whole life.

Now I’m distilling it into my children so they can have the courage to do just about anything.

2. Double Vision

No, I’m not talking about the song here. Although, that would be interesting to write about. Wouldn’t it? The double vision I’m speaking about is seeing life through two different set of eyes.

One set of your eyes sees endless opportunities to do just about anything.

The other set of eyes sees limitations.

With the two different set of eyes this gave me a beautiful way to look at life. My primary set, the one who sees endless opportunities allows me to dream and make them a reality for me. I dream as though I’m experiencing the very thing I want.

With my secondary set of eyes, I see what other people are going through. You have this too, but perhaps you just don’t realize it.

Let’s say I come into a room full of people and all of a sudden as I enter, everyone becomes silent and stares at me. Awkward feeling, right. Well, what feeling are you experiencing as this is happening? You’re feeling everyone’s energy levels focusing in on you and it’s sucking the life right out of you, right.

This whole experience you can now use to your advantage. What was it that made everyone become silent? Did I happen to mention that I was wearing a bright red suit with a yellow hat on my head?

What you probably were thinking was, what is wrong with them? I encourage you to not think this way. Instead, use your second set of eyes to understand why people were acting the way they were. Get into their minds by asking them why did they act that way. You may be surprised how different the responses would be.

Having double vision is an awesome power and it also allows you to have bulletproof courage.

3. The Sixth Sense

Ever just get a feeling something is not right or something is pulling you to do something but you’re just not sure what to do? That’s your sixth sense calling out to you.

Did you know, despite what society and rules think, there is no wrong way. We let outside forces tell us what we can or can’t do. By the way I hate that word can’t. Trust your sixth sense because it’s most likely telling you something you need to do. If you don’t do what you feel you should do, then that’s only going to strengthen your lack of courage.

When I was a teenager I was working at a local store as a stock boy. I did it after school to make a little bit of extra money. However, I didn’t listen to my sixth sense because it was telling me something was not right about this job. On the surface everything looked fine and that’s all I saw, until I got started.

After a few weeks of working, I worked for a complete jerk who was hung up on his position. Definitely not a leader according to John Maxwell’s standards. All this person did was belittle me and boss me around. I felt like a fool even though I knew I wasn’t.

It was about a week later where I felt an urgent need to trust my sixth sense. It told me to quit that job and to not even give them the luxury of knowing I was quitting. My manager, the business owner,  was not raising me up or encouraging me to be great. If anything he was going to hold me back.

That was the best decision I ever made as a teenager. I learned that when my sixth sense is telling me something, I trust it and act on it immediately.

Acting on it will also help you build stronger courage.

4. Be the Change

When I was in my mid-20s, I faced a challenging time. I was contemplating quitting college because I was stuggling big time. Attending a 4-yr university was a lot harder than a 2-yr college.

Right about this time I met my sweetheart, who is now my wife. We went on our first date. It was an amazing night. I felt so drawned to her. I felt this even more so when I told her about how I was going to quit college.

Being the visionary that she is, she saw the kind of person I was and that was not a quitter. She gave me the strength I needed to dig deep within myself to not quit. As I was going through this difficult time, I felt a need to not quit but to rather get confirmation.

My date was that confirmation. It was exactly what I needed to get. The whole other side of me that was telling me to not quit was, if I want to have a different life then I have to go through the change period.

That meant being very uncomfortable.

I always knew this, but I lacked the external sources that gave me those words of affirmation.

With the combination of being the change and getting words of affirmation, I had the courage of a lion.

These four very special ways have served me over the years.

As time goes by I develop new and exciting ways to build up my courage. However, no matter how many new ones come into my life, I always come back to these four.

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Jerome Ratliff is the creator of Maverick Business Builders where his passion is to make a difference for struggling network marketers. You can get more training and learn about what Jerome is up to by visiting him at his blog...

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