The Power of Risk with Author and Skydiver Jim McCormick

Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich

Entrepreneurship, Business, Business:entrepreneurship

5.0 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In today’s show, we are putting Jim McCormick in your passenger seat to discuss the power of risk. Risk is a concept that we all generally shy away from because it requires vulnerability. Sometimes this vulnerability is physical, like jumping out of a plane or perhaps emotional like expressing your feelings. Either way, we typically look to avoid risk. However, we also choose to risk every single day when we hop in the car and drive down the road or any number of other activities that are seemingly benign but have inherent risk built into them. Our familiarity with activities and our perception of them makes the difference with our level of acceptance. But what about the risks that make a difference in our lives? Taking a new job. Moving to a new place. Asking for that first date. Over the course of our lives there are pivotal moments that often change the direction of our lives and in many of these cases risk is involved. Very rarely do we look back on those moments and regret that that we overcame the fear and anxiety of taking the risk. So, if there is such reward in things, there is power. This is what Jim McCormick has based his book upon and practiced in his own life. With over 5000 career skydives, Jim is well familiar with the concept of risk and has taken concepts and practices from theory to our conversation to understand why risk is so powerful. Stretching our comfort zone is never comfortable by definition, but it may be just what we need for that next big thing.

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0:00.0	There's three kinds of risks.
0:03.0	There's the mandatory risks, there's the optional risk, and there's the avoided risk.
0:07.0	The mandatory risk is the risk we perceive that we need to take in order to function.
0:10.0	And those are things like driving a car, or things like getting out of bed.
0:14.0	Now we go into the optional risk, so the chosen risk.
0:18.0	That's where we make the decision as to whether we want to add some richness to our lives
0:22.7	so that we have a more positive experience, so that we have a more satisfying life,
0:28.2	and on a business side, that we have the opportunity to expand our careers.
0:37.0	Welcome to the Waste No Day podcast, a podcast specifically for and about the home services industry as it relates to plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical.
0:48.9	More than a podcast, Waste No Day is a credo, a determination, a mindset.
0:54.5	It is a never-ending discipline. It is a never-ending discipline.
0:56.6	It is a refuse to lose pursuit.
0:59.1	It is a wake-up call every morning to waste no day.
1:03.1	Now here's your host, Nate and Brian,
1:19.1	hanging out with you again.
1:20.3	And we are excited to invite on the show this time, Jim McCormick, author and Skydiver,
1:25.8	extraordinaire, Brian.
1:26.9	We're looking forward to having a great conversation with him about the power of risk.
1:32.5	Before we do that, we're going to spend a little bit of time talking about that subject for ourselves.
1:36.6	And we're going to turn to Brian for our quote.
1:39.2	No matter your level of ability, you have more potential than you could possibly develop over a lifetime.
1:47.1	James T. McKay, author. And I know that seems like a strange quote to pick for a risk interview.
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