If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. — Jim Rohn

If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Author: Jim Rohn

Insight: Most of us say we want something different, but we're terrified of what we might lose in the process. We keep the job that pays predictably even though it drains us. We stick with the familiar routine, the safe circle of friends, the comfortable version of ourselves. It feels like playing it safe protects us, but really it just freezes us in place. The real cost of ordinariness isn't that life becomes boring—it's that you become someone who watches from the sidelines while wondering what might have happened. Every extraordinary thing you've ever admired in someone else required them to do something that felt risky at the time. That could have failed. It probably scared them. Here's the part people miss though: risk doesn't mean reckless. It means being willing to look foolish, to fail, to have people disagree with you. It means saying yes to the opportunity that doesn't come with a guarantee, or starting the project nobody asked for. The ordinary path is actually the risky one—risky because it's almost guaranteed to leave you unsatisfied.