What’s the Worst Thing that Can Happen?

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This is Chris Albert, and I'm here to remind you of one thing. Someday, you're going to die. Now that's not some morbid statement or scary idea. It's solid fact. Your time here on this earth is limited.

And we need to be reminded of this as much as possible for one simple reason, to live your best life while you can. This is the Warrior Soul podcast.

When it comes to pursuing anything big in this life, I haven't known a lot of people who've failed in trying to do big things. And that might sound like it's really optimistic, but here's the thing. I don't know very many people. In fact, I can count them probably on one hand whoever actually tried to go out there and do any big things. Think about that for a second.

Most of us don't fail because we've tried and and just failed out of effort. Most of us fail because we never start. We never actually begin the journey. And that happens for a lot of reasons. It happens because, well, we never think we're in the right time or the right place.

It can happen maybe because we quit. Right? Maybe we started something, but but maybe we got a a little bit into it, but but then we put it down. Right? And and I've faced that opportunity many times.

I can tell you that starting this podcast and and putting it out there is no easy feat. And there's been many times when I'd look at my downloads, and I'd look at where I was on the charts, and I'd say, you know what, is is this worth it? Is anybody really listening to what I have to say? And luckily, I I was able to push those voices down, but a lot of people, they're not able to. A lot of people, well, they think that they're going along with common sense, and and they push themselves away from actually trying to to do the things that are gonna match up and align them with their dreams.

But, yeah, it's the case. For most of you out there that I'm I'm speaking to, it's probably not the case that you've ever failed at anything. It's probably the case that you've never put yourself into position to fail in the first place. So what I'm gonna talk about today is is something I think that's very important for all of us to consider, and it's a question. It's a question I think that everybody needs to ask themselves when they're thinking about pursuing their dreams.

And it's this, what's the worst possible thing that can happen? What is the worst possible thing that can happen? And like I always like to remind our listeners, well, the group I'm talking to here, the audience I'm talking to here is a group that's been in situations where, well, there was a lot that could have gone wrong while they were in the military. Right? In fact, that's a question we often ask ourselves when when we're planning missions or when we're planning patrols.

Right? What's the worst possible thing that can happen? And that's why we always put contingency plans and SOPs in place because we want something to fall back on. Right? Same thing here.

When you are thinking about what you want to do in this life and you're thinking about your goals, Like I said, far too many of you aren't setting high enough goals. You need to think about what the worst possible thing is that can happen. And the reason why you need to do that is because it helps you to understand that even if you fail, even if everything goes wrong, you're probably gonna be okay. Right? We're we're talking about a life here where where lives and limbs are no longer on the line.

Right? You don't have to worry about being shot at. You don't have to be worry about being blown up. Right? So so what do you have to worry about?

For the vast majority of you, you let's say you're trying to start a business. Well, you're you're probably probably not going to starve. You're probably not going to starve. A lot of you have family, you have friends, you have have people around you that can help you, but beyond that we're in a time and a place where you don't have to put it all on the line. You could could start a business online with very little.

You don't need much startup capital or anything like that. You you just need really a landing page and a few social media accounts, you could start getting the word out, and you could start seeing whether or not anybody's actually resonating with your product and your brand. Right? Actually don't have that much on the line there. But there's a lot of people who are hesitating.

They they don't want to do it. When it comes to something else, like let's say it comes to your fitness. Right? And you try to drop weight. What's the worst thing that could possibly happen there?

Right? You you don't drop any weight, and you got some workouts in and and got out of the house, enjoyed yourself, you learned something new, about your body and you learned about training. Right? You pushed yourself a little bit. I mean, the worst thing that can happen there is is you're just where you started.

Right? You don't really have anything to lose. And I think that's the point I'm trying to slam home to you guys. Because a lot of us act like we have everything in the world to lose if if we take a chance, if we take a risk. Rally, the reality is you don't.

The truth is this. We are on this planet for a very finite amount of time. Right? We're born, we live, and then we all die. Right?

You don't have forever to live here. And the fact is that you're gonna die whether you pursue your dreams or not. You're gonna die whether you took a risk or not. Right? It's gonna happen no matter what.

Choice you have is what your life looks like between now and the day you take your final breath. Right? You have a choice and a say in what your life looks like between now and then. And when you really, really start to think about it, out of the billions of people who've ever existed on this planet, well, you have a much greater ability to choose than most ever had. Right?

If you're if you're listening to this right now, in twenty first century, you're living in the Western world, particularly in The United States, then you've got a greater choice over what the rest of your life could look like than anybody or the vast majority of people have ever had throughout history. You've got an amazing, amazing opportunity there. So the question is knowing that you're going to die someday, then why wouldn't you try to take a risk? Why wouldn't you want to take a chance? And knowing that you know you're not gonna end up you know putting your life at risk knowing that you're not gonna end up putting yourself into a position where you potentially get ruined, well then then why wouldn't you work at it?

You know, let's think about the other alternatives here. Right? What are you doing instead of doing those things? Right? Are are is every minute of your day filled up really?

Are you so busy that you don't have time to to sit on your couch and watch TV? Are you so busy that you don't have time to eat and don't have time to to do things that don't entail your job, your work, or or anything else. Right? Or are you spending free time being idle? Are you cruising along YouTube?

Are you cruising along social media? Are you spending time watching the news? Hearing about people who have been working on their lives, but who probably wouldn't piss on you if if they were on fire, which I think is true of most politicians. Right? And yet we obsess over them, and we debate about them, and and we put so much of our energy into them.

Yeah. The truth is they probably wouldn't piss on anybody if they were on fire. Right? Or at least not on us. I mean, think about that.

What are you putting your energy into? What are you putting your lifeblood into? Could that lifeblood be better spent somewhere else? Think about that. Right?

And and you don't have to answer that right now. But when the time comes when you feel the opportunity to make a choice, to improve your life, to do something that you always wanted to do. Well, if you're not doing it, then ask yourself why. And if you're telling yourself that, well, I don't have the time or it's not the right time right now, remember that you're lying. Remember that death is is over our shoulders constantly.

And as Carlos Castaneda writes, well, death hasn't touched you yet. You're lucky. You don't have anything to truly fear, though, because someday death will touch you. And after that, you're not gonna have any more chances. So, again, think about it, and that's all I've got for today.

I've been talking about this lately, and we started a group here at Warrior Soul. It's called the Warrior's Obituary Society. The idea is to empower our members to live epic lives, lives worthy of epic obituaries. The way it works is this, when we take in members, we put them through an eight week development program. That development program starts with outlining your vision, getting really clear about what you want out of this life, And then setting goals.

Those are are gonna be your indicators of how close you're getting to that vision. And then once we do that, we start to work on specific areas of your life. Right? Helping you to customize your own fitness plan. Helping you to create a plan for your personal finances to get you out of debt and get you to start saving and start investing.

We start looking at your desire to improve your career or build a business. We start trying to get you the tools necessary to get you there. And then from there, we work on getting you into a position to build an amazing network, to improve your personal relationships, and to improve your happiness and your standing in this life. There's a lot of programs out there that cost thousands of dollars that do this, but this isn't one of those programs. It's actually extremely reasonable in its cost, and it's something that I think that the vast majority of you, if you're ready for the work, could get a whole lot out of.

So if you're interested in this, head over to www.warriorobituarysociety.com. Check it out. And if you've got any questions, you can email me. My email is chris, chris@warriorsoulagoge, and Agoge is spelled a g o g e, dot com. I'm happy to talk.

I will respond. And yeah. So let's let's do this. I hope to see you guys in there. And with that, guys, I'm gonna stop yapping my gums over here.

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And I am out.