Bill, On the Record
Excerpts from interview with Bill Losey by Pneuma Books, LLC during the creation of the 101Guarantees.com book series, the world’s largest collection of blank books
On Guarantees:
“We make all decisions based upon assumptions. Assumptions create expectations. Expectations may create guarantees in your mind. But, in reality, there are no guarantees. The more you resist this fact the more susceptible you are to disappointment and failure.”
On 101 Stock Market Guarantees:
“We live in a country of financially-illiterate people. Many presume that the stock market will always come back, always reach new highs and always create new generations of wealth. In actuality, it may not.”
On 101 Marriage Guarantees:
“If marriage was easy, no one would ever get divorced.”
On 101 Employment Guarantees:
“Graduating with a college degree was never enough. Unless a person is committed to continual self-improvement, they are a depreciating asset. You’ve got to constantly upgrade your skill-set or you’ll be out of a job.”
On 101 Homeland Security Guarantees:
“Our complacency is the greatest cause of our exposure to future attacks. We think we’re invincible and we’re not.”
On 101 Health & Medical Guarantees:
“If we as a nation chose to eat healthy foods, chose to exercise and chose to not smoke and do drugs, we wouldn’t have to rely on doctors and prescriptions. Optimal health is a choice.”
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Bill, In His Own Words
“Too many of us keep the bar low by playing "to not lose" instead of playing to win because we assume that life has guarantees when in reality it doesn’t. Because of that one assumption, we’ve become complacent and dependent on guarantees. That dependency builds expectations that create comfort zones that are below our full potential and prevent us from making our greatest impact.”
“We have become so used to companies and people saving us from risk that we as a society now expect guarantees from everything. To feed this need, we use assumptions that turn into guarantees. Then we use these guarantees to make choices every day not based on whether we can win, but on the probability of not losing. We only place bets on a sure thing.”
“We are a nation at a plateau. We are a nation playing to not lose instead of playing to win.”
“We all have guarantees inside – we just need to discover them and act on them. Clarity comes from exploring, testing our assumptions and living our lives by "the 5 real guarantees" that we all have but ignore.”
