The Butterfly Effect: Getting Beyond Your Comfort Zone Brings Success

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This Element is an excerpt from Make More, Worry Less: Secrets from 18 Extraordinary People Who Created a Bigger Income and a Better Life (9780132346863) by Wes Moss. Available in print and digital formats.

If it doesn't terrify you . . . maybe it isn't worth doing!

We usually try to avoid that sick, nervous "butterflies-in-the-stomach" feeling. But Ralph Stayer owes his career success-and the success of hundreds of employees-to chasing that butterfly feeling. "If the things you commit to don't make you puke in the sink every now and then, you really haven't signed on for a lot," says Ralph. That's how he built his career at Johnsonville Sausage.