The Butterfly Effect

This is the eBook version of the printed book. 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.