I had a wild and dangerous experience yesterday.
I was paddle boarding and saw a jetski flip over. It flipped beside a break wall with fairly aggressive crashing waves. After a few minutes without movement, I decided to paddle over.
When I reached the wall I saw 2 people in the water.
They were holding a metal rod on the wall and trying to climb out, but the waves were too strong. The waves were pushing the jetski on top of them, they were in between.
They were both panicked and neither of them were strong swimmers.
I pulled the girl onto the break wall and jumped in to drag the jetski away.
The guy was exerting a crazy amount of energy and was not able to focus on calming himself. I was talking him through my plan and trying to get him to slow his energy.
He had been trying so hard to stay calm for his girlfriend but once he didn't feel the obligation to be strong for her, something changed. He was exhausted and still felt no control of the situation. The water was very aggressive and it was clear he was tired.
At one point we made eye contact and I saw a look of desperation. A knowledge that he did not have control of the situation or maybe even his own life. It took me until this morning to realize what that was but I will never forget it.
After 7-8 more minutes I was able to get him holding onto the jetski as I towed it around the break wall. The lifeguards arrived and took over the rescue.
When I left, the guy was in a thermal blanket and clearly in shock.
I woke up this morning with little spots of blood all over my bedding and an overall soreness throughout my body, I am remembering this with a calm and clear mind. It makes me thankful to be alive.
It puts into perspective all of the stupid things I don't do out of meaningless fear. I don't promote my business on social (as much as I should), I never posted those 27 videos I recorded for Tiktok, and I don't send more than 1 email per week because I don't want to be annoying.
Life is short. If you are going to take the risk of being an entrepreneur you have it hard enough. Don't add more rules and limitations because your competitor has a better social media presence than you.
Get out into the world in your own unique way. Chase stupid ideas. Test. Experiment. Stop worrying that every action you take needs an outcome. Start having more fun building that dream you always wanted.
Feel free to reply and tell me what you plan to build this week. I will tell you what I'm working on.
Mike
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