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Summary: Just in time
Review: After a head on collision two years ago, I doubted my ability to recover and whether I would ever walk again. Reading "Right Risk" provided me with the impetus to move forward by taking many risks from finally driving a car again to returning to work at a time when jobs are hard to come by.
Right Risk has helped me focus on what's important in my life from my family to friends and making contact with relatives that I haven't seen in many years. I can relate to the nine limiting scripts as I have experienced most of them. It's good to know that I am not alone.
Right Risk is a well written book, and I encourage everyone to read it, as we are all exposed to some sort of risk each and every day of our lives, and we need to know how to overcome our fear of risk. Accolades to Bill Treasurer.
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Summary: This book is a good risk
Review: Bill Treasurer's book came along at a great time for my husband and I. I have never thought of myself as someone willing to take risks or even enjoy the prospect of a risk. I have always sought the shelter of safety. Reading "Right Risk" helped us understand that we need to evaluate taking risks in the same way I might look at an investment. That is, find my comfort zone and then stretch it a little.
For us, the message of the book became particularly relevant when we were considering a move to another state. There were all sorts of reasons - all related to safety - why we should stay put. But "Right Risk" helped us to evaluate all of the things that we might gain and to put value on those. Bottom line, we took the risk and have been rewarded.
"Right Risk" is a great book to help you particularly as you contemplate a life-changing decision. It is well worth the time to read.
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Summary: Diving Past Your Fears into Integrity
Review: Do you have a fear of heights? Are you afraid of fire? Could you learn to dive from a hundred foot tower while your body was aflame? Despite having both of those fears, author Bill Treasurer successfully completed 1500 high dives (including hundreds while on fire) from sixty to one hundred feet over seven years. That experience helped him develop an understanding of how to overcome our fears when it makes sense for us to go ahead. The cover features a vivid demonstration of his experience. His diving provides a moving metaphor for each of us identifying our most limiting fears . . . and overcoming them to live our personal value systems.
While many books talk about fear and overcoming it, this one is special in that it does a better job than usual in explaining why some seek out dangerous risks and others avoid minor risks that could be life-transforming. I particularly liked Mr. Treasurer's argument that in a world where people primarily evaluate themselves and others by externals we become obsessed with one-upping ourselves and others for the temporary "high" that brings. Trouble is . . . we then need to do it again. Why not evaluate oneself by inner measures instead such as operating
with integrity in terms of one's values? It can be a lot more frightening to do that than to jump from the top of a tall platform while burning!
The book suggests ten principles and their related practices for taking the right risk: Become reacquainted with yourself (find your golden silence); break out of the mold (defy inertia); plan how you will overcome your fears to pursue worthy risks (write your risk scripts; build emotional incentives to change (turn on the risk pressure); put yourself where you have to perform (put yourself on the line); use your fear to help (make your fear work for you); develop your courage (have the courage to be courageous); accept your flaws (be perfectly imperfect); break through nominal boundaries (trespass continuously); and show your true colors to others (expose yourself).
Each principle has its own chapter along with riveting questions to help you focus on what you need to do.
I was especially impressed by the life scripts that most people use to define what they can and cannot do. I'm sure that Mr. Treasurer makes good use of these scripts to help his coaching clients.
Like the best self-help books, Mr. Treasurer is very candid about his own limitations. He makes important revelations about how he has struggled in relationships and in living with his beliefs in other areas that will help empower you to see how difficult it is to raise up and address these issues.
Nice job!
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Summary: Maybe it's time you took a risk?
Review: Ever wonder why when you did something risky you always felt more alive and full of energy. I always wondered anyway. If you ever felt this way this book is for you. The book has principles that would help anyone who has forgoten how to take risks for the right rewards. Taking full fledge leaps rather then a little here and a little there. "Leap your ass off!" The most insightful passage in the book for me was about sometimes not takng risks is best for you. I never thought of risk in that sense before. Overall I loved the book and I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Thought-provoking!
Review: From the first pages of this book, I found myself reading more and more slowly. This book made me think. I was forced to assess my current status, and challenge what my I believed had been my real "risks" in life. Now I realize I play it safe. A lot.
This book came at a point where I was making a change in my career, and it helped me think about what I want to do and how to get there. I particularly liked Bill's concepts of Golden Silence and having a personal mantra. Sounds a little "groovy", I know, but these concepts are effective.
Armed with my new mantra ("challenge the assumption") and my high-lighted copy of Right Risk, I feel ready to be courageous as I face a career change. Thanks, Bill!
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Summary: Maybe it's time you took a risk?
Review: Have you ever thought about changing jobs or your career? Is fear holding you back because of the risk involved? In this book, Bill Treasurer shows you how to break down and examine risk and make fear managable. There are some risks worth taking and some you can't afford not to take. Mr. Treasurer uses examples from his own life as a high diver to explore risk. He also made a career change from working in the corporate world to starting his own consulting business. Even if "your risk" is something other than career related, this book is for you. I came across the book at my local library. I was so impressed that I ordered a copy of my own so I could read it again and share it with others. It's written in a format (with questions at the end of each chapter) that is could be used as a small group study guide. Next to the bible, it may be the most potentially life changing book I've ever read. It's available on Amazon.com or you can purchase a signed copy via his web site http://www.giantleapconsulting.com.
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Summary: A Practical Book On How to Lead a Fulfilled Life
Review: RIGHT RISK is one of the best, most practical books I've read in years. The author, Bill Treasurer, truly delivers upon his promise: He shows readers how to discover, plan for, and take the risks they know they must take in order to have a fulfilled life. Treasurer -- at one time a professional daredevil, who routinely set himself on fire and jumped nine stories into a water tank, and who later became Accenture's first-ever internal executive coach -- distills his risk-taking wisdom into ten principles. Those principles include the following: "Find Your Golden Silence," through which you brush aside mental chatter, and decide upon the proper risks for you. "Defy Inertia," through which you overcome the natural human tendency to shun the work that risk requires. "Write Your Risk Scripts," through which you escape the predictable, push-button ways you normally react in stressful situations. "Trespass Continuously," through which you understand that obedience to others' standards may be the greatest risk of all, and pushing back is your safest option. In the end, this book isn't just about how to take one or two specific risks. It's more about how to build character and live with what Treasurer calls "personal fidelity." It's about being your own person, and using the potential you know is there, only you haven't gotten around to using it yet. Writes Treasurer: "An old maxim says the best way to be nothing is to do nothing. A lot of people prefer bragging how they could have been a contender to actually contending . . . While asserting your potential is much easier than living up to it, living in the shadow of your unused potential can be a dreadful burden. Both inertia and laziness leave scars of safety. Many a bar stool has been warmed by the seat of a man whose most taunting recollections are of risks he didn't take." (p. 57) RIGHT RISK doesn't guarantee your success. Such a promise would be unrealistic. What it does do is knock you off your bar stool, and gets you out into the world, where you can take action. (...)
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Summary: Great BOOK and a Great INTERVIEW
Review: Some people are risk avoiders rather than risk takers, yet the regret that comes from lost opportunity can be far worse than the pain of not succeeding. Some of the signs of risk avoidance are procrastination, hesitation, being distracted, disorganization, and not being certain that your career is fulfilling your purpose in life. Bill Treasurer says that you can create your best life - a life full and rich, that's high on rewards and low on regrets - by developing a solid framework for risk. And he should know, because he was a seven-year member of the U.S. High Diving Team and made over 1,500 giant leaps from 100 feet up - often fire-diving as "Captain Inferno" into shallow waters far below. I interviewed Bill Treasurer on "The Inside Success Show" and was moved by his authenticity and genuineness. I see risk taking and risk avoidance in a new light. Blind Faith has new eyes!
Here are some other things I learned. ** How Bill Treasurer overcame is extreme fear of heights to jump into shallow water from 100 feet, while on fire. ** Why you need learn which risks are right for you and how to use the 4 P's to discover them ** How you can completely overcome your fears by risk scripting ** What risks you must not take if you want to stay alive ** Why risk takers earn far more money than risk avoiders Taking risks is essential to growing personally and professionally and if you are ready to authentically live your purpose in life, and enjoy authentic abundance, then get this book and pay attention to this "on fire" man who reveals the secrets to successful risk taking. Randy (Dr. Proactive) Gilbert, Host of The Inside Success Show (TheInsideSuccessShow.com) and best-selling author of "Success Bound"
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Summary: All RIsks are Right Risks
Review: The author, Bill Treasurer, teaches the value of taking risks. Rather than stagnate or remain disenchanted with your life or circumstances, you learn how to take the right risk. Before my brother's, Frank, death he read a copy of this book which helped him clarify some of his impending decisions. I am so glad that he chose to "take the leap" and live the remaining days of his life truly happy.
Embedded in every situation is a risk, only you can choose what is right. Make the right choice and live. Thank you Bill.
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Summary: The Right Risk is Right On Target!
Review: The Right Risk is right on target for anyone who wants to change their life for the better. Not only does the book provide a practical methodology for preparing to take the right risk, but it also provides a great deal of insight and motivation for those who are not accustomed to taking risks. The book helped me to gain a new found confidence in taking risks, while aiding me in starting my new business. Don't judge this book by its cover- it is entertaining, yet a serious life-changing catalyst! Well done Bill Treasurer.
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