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Financial Freedom: # 5. Be A High Risk Person, Be Positive
 Risk free to face the world
Being a high risk person and be positive thinker person seems the best way to be rich and lead to financially free. To pretend this life doesn’t exist is dangerous. Just going through the motions in the same old way can lead to disaster, and there’s no net to catch you.
If you’re not in of the changes going on around you, your response will be late and down you’ll go. Responding to change with fear and hesitation is as dangerous as not responding at all. To succeed in a high risk culture, you must be a person who takes a risk. Taking a risk measures the ability emotionally and psychologically to tolerate unpredictability, uncertainty and vulnerability. Some people have a high tolerance for these factors, whereas others have a low tolerance. If you don’t know what tolerance you have, you’re in that gray middle ground where ambivalence causes hesitation. A successful person should be a high risk person. Identifying High Risk Person Are you a high risk person? What about the people you work with and who work with you? Certain traits or behaviors are indicative of high risk individuals. The following two checklists will be helpful in the identification process. High Risk Professional Characteristics
High Risk Personal characteristics
Paying the Price of Being a High Risk Person
If you embrace the behaviors and attitudes of the high risk individual, you need to understand your decision within the context of stress and distress. Low risk people exchange short-term stress for long term and rarely experience long-term distress. When you strike a low risk posture, you may avoid day-to-day stress, but you accumulate unmade decisions that ultimately cause you have much unhappiness. High risk people, on the other hand, constantly made decisions and face change-related stress, but they never look back on their lives with regret. High risk people regularly pay a price for being successful in their life, whereas low risk people avoid paying until a big amount is due at some point down the road. It’s the difference between making fixed payments on a loan and a gigantic balloon payment after a period of time. For a high risk person, no one can afford to accumulate such a huge debt and expect to be happy or successful.
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