{"id":1809,"date":"2012-12-14T12:48:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T18:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2012-12-14T12:51:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T18:51:10","slug":"taking-calculated-risks-in-the-face-of-adversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1809","title":{"rendered":"Taking Calculated Risks in the Face of Adversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; doing anything significantly big and bold in life requires taking risks.<\/p>\n<p>Take the example of Peter Diamindis &gt; We sent out a press release the very next day saying, &#8220;Zero G to fly Stephen Hawking into weightlessness to raise funds for ALS.&#8221; I had expected nothing but positive reaction. But what happened next shocked me.\u00a0 I received two phone calls. One came from our airline partner saying, &#8220;You&#8217;re crazy. You&#8217;re going to be flying this guy who has been in a wheelchair for 40 years and there&#8217;s a good chance he might get injured.&#8221; The other came from a friend at the FAA who said, &#8220;You know the rules under which you are operating require that anyone flying must be certified &#8216;able-bodied&#8217; and I can&#8217;t imagine anyone here would view Prof Hawking as able-bodied.&#8221; On top of that, I had a number of people in the commercial space world approach me saying that this was a bad idea, that a major accident could set back everything we had been working toward for decades.<\/p>\n<p>It is very likely that most people would quit at this point.\u00a0 However, people like Peter and mySelf,\u00a0my wife and many other successful individuals live by the creed; &#8220;<em>There&#8217;s always a way<\/em>&#8220;, or &#8220;<em>The impossible just takes a little bit longer<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Because\u00a0doing anything significantly big and bold in life requires taking risks.\u00a0 How do you know when to proceed or when to &#8220;fold&#8221;?<br \/>\n1. If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it&#8217;s worth preparing for.<\/p>\n<p>2. You\u00a0MUST do everything you can to retire as much of the risk as possible.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 GO for it!\u00a0 Because it matters not how many times you get knocked down, as long as\u00a0you get up one time more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Live With Intention,<\/p>\n<p>Dr Bill<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.icptrack.com\/icp\/relay.php?r=10603472&amp;msgid=268062&amp;act=XDF1&amp;c=1090792&amp;destination=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.google.com%2F102564912330648182355%2Fposts%2Fe3k4LY86mqZ\">Click here to read Peter&#8217;s Full Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; doing anything significantly big and bold in life requires taking risks. Take the example of Peter Diamindis &gt; We sent out a press release the very next day saying, &#8220;Zero G to fly Stephen Hawking into &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1809\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,296,254,31],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-peter-diamandis","tag-postaday2012","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}