Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

I have a dangerous question to pose to you this morning, a question that could change everything,

about how you build your business, about how you operate every aspect of your life. And this question, most leaders desperately avoid.

Because it's uncomfortable, because it's scary, because it reveals too much. What I'm

about to share will show you why this question might be your path to explosive growth.

Let me share a story that changed everything, how a near-death experience led to a $100 million

breakthrough. A friend of mine runs a $100 million company that was growing 50% year over

year. He was living the success dream until his heart stopped for three minutes and 42 seconds. That's how long it took

for everything to change, for success to be redefined, for real growth to begin. Lying in that

hospital bed, he didn't think about growth targets or market expansions or quarterly earnings.

He thought about what was killing him. The 80-hour work weeks, the constant stress,

the terrible diet, the zero exercise, the broken sleep. For the first time, instead of asking,

how do I get more? He asked, what might kill me? And something fascinating happened. Because he had to

focus on the things that could kill him and the

changes that he had to make to prevent it, his health improved dramatically. His energy shot through the

roof and his clarity got laser sharp and surprising, even to himself, his output performance soared.

Then he had an epiphany. What if I did this with my business? Instead of just asking,

how can we grow faster, he started asking his team, what could kill us in the next 12 months?

That's when he created what I now call the threat audit. A Harvard study recently showed

89% of business failures come from threats that were visible six to 18 months before collapse.

He gathered his leadership team and asked one simple question, what could absolutely kill us?

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