But they might cheat me!

I was talking to a friend today about all the cool crap I have bought lately dealing with Internet marketing (and some of it was very expensive).

He said, “I just assume everyone is trying to cheat me. I don’t trust anyone without proof that it will be right.”

Well, my friend: welcome to life!

We never really know which choice will be the jackpot and which will mean certain death. But we can gauge relative risk/reward of various actions. And, without risks, not many rewards, unfortunately. Many success stories start with, “So, I put the marketing seminar on my credit card, though I was almost bankrupt because I had to find what worked . . .”

Listen: you will make x number of mistakes before success. There is no way around it. So, make them quickly. Then you will be successful faster! If you avoid risk/mistakes/failures, you avoid growth, development, and progress.

Dale Carnegie says it this way: consider the worst thing that can possibly happen. Can you live with that? Good. Then do it.