With great risk comes great reward. If you don’t take risks, then you will never be able to reap those rewards. Many people see risk as a bad thing, but this is not (always) the case.

The first thing I explain to the LifePath Unlimited members that have bought into my home based business opportunity is that they need to take risks. Learning, watching and waiting for the right opportunity is all good and well, but without any risk taking it’s all for naught. Sometimes letting a risky business opportunity pass you buy is in itself the most risky course of action.

People who don’t want to take risks are often waiting for the ‘right time’. They think that they are building a foundation from which to build their business; in actual fact they are creating a situation where they have 100% chance of NOT moving their business forward. You will miss 100% of the shots that you don’t take.

This isn’t to say that LifePath home business practitioners should be reckless. I am not encouraging recklessness at all. But you do have to recognize when to take the risks that matter. Sure, you’ll get better at it, and yes, there is some learning to be done, but sometimes the only way you can learn is to do and try.

Failing at something doesn’t make you a failure. Learning from that failure is crucial, and if you can learn efficiently from mistakes then you will soon be a success.

I’ve been fighting the urge to try acai berry for about a year now. I’m weak when it comes to trying out the latest ‘big thing’ in dieting and health, and I’d been reading about it’s good points and getting myself pretty excited about the whole idea. At the back of my mind there was always two niggling thoughts: first, that a lot of people were getting stung with this whole ‘Free Trial’ thing, and second that the acai berry might just be a lot of marketing ‘fluff’ and not actually be that effective.

The product I really liked the look of was Acai Berry Ultra-Slim from the Acai Berry Site store. This place seemed pretty solid to me, and the Ultra-Slim puree looked like just the thing. Not a reconstituted, diluted powdery attempt at acai, but 100% puree; this looked like as near to being the real deal as I was going to get. It also includes an ingredient called Essentra which is patented as an ingredient that actively reduces hunger pangs.

After a few days of reading about acai berry – and I’m talking about scientific reports here, not just sales pages – I was still convinced that Ultra-Slim was the way forward. Thinking about the benefits of acai berry, it amazes me that more people don’t take it. When you combine the proven benefits of antioxidants, amino acids, the possible effects on cancer, on diabetes and just in making us healthier… if acai berry were providing me with only one of these benefits then it would still clearly be worth trying. And I’ve now no reason to believe it doesn’t do all of those things.

I bought my first bottle of Ultra-Slim and took it as prescribed for the first couple of months. Overall I am very pleased with the results. The taste isn’t fantastic, but I guess that’s just down to personal preference; it’s not a nasty taste, just, well, different. I take a slug a couple times a day and I find that means I’m not getting hungry between meals: I can pick and choose what I eat with a more rational mind!

If you’re on the fence about acai, then I definitely would advise that you try some puree.