Risk Taking

Is the risk worth it?

Admit it. You aspire to do big things but you’re letting the risk (fear of the unknown) hold you back from starting.

Maybe your big risk is saying no to the safety net of a company that you admire, so that you can pursue what you feel in your heart you should be…

Vulnerability: The Importance of Letting People In

By: Devon Miller

Weak. Helpless. Powerless. When thinking about the word vulnerability, especially in the context of leadership, these are words that have popped into my head at one time or another. And I’m sure I’m…

Left foot, right.

I think I’m driven to walk by desperation. There’s an unseen force haunting my every footfall, riding my calves, and racing up and down my tendons. Every step does not merely precede the next, but forces a building momentum that continually crescendos to an unsustainable peak.

5 Larger than Life Lessons from “Fight Club” for Millennials

Even though Fight Club was released in 1999, after 18 years there are certain life lessons which have become even more relevant. Especially when we consider the millennials and post-millennials. So here this my take on the 5…

In taking risks, you need to consider what the outcome will be first before you do something you might regret. You also need to consider the people around you that will be affected. But sometimes, if you didn’t take that risk, your mind will be filled with “what if” and “I should have”

Defensive Business for Bad Creativity

How can I make enough money doing good enough work while…

Saying yes and trying things

Elisa Kosarin from Twenty Hats interviewed me back in May 2016. My favorite part of her post is this:

And then sometimes, through what Liza calls “a series of yesses”, we start to take our work more seriously and see volunteer management as a profession…

Stop hating on the “nine-to-fivers”

As a person who walked away from a paid offer to pursue a certain graduate education, I feel as if I have the right to call out many of my fellow friends who are entrepreneurs or self-employed to STOP hating on those who pursue a traditional career path…you know, the…

Risk: The heartbeat of a life worth living

A life devoid of risk is a life without reward. There are no ups. There are no downs. How does one distinguish a life without ups and downs from that which is not alive? Well, they usually don’t. Just like a pulse, risk is the heartbeat of life. Without…

The one thing that changed how I think about risk