Everything in life is a series of calculated risks. You don’t know when you will fail but mostly, when you will succeed. No outcome is ever certain and therefore, any attempt at anything has a chance of complete failure. You also have to be thick-skinned to learn and know that not every litte thing and project that you did will survive. Because life is all about risks, you take some and you avoid others. Step back and look at the bigger picture. Remember, you are often tested, but life itself is not a test. It’s the real deal. The decisions you make every day impact the quality of your entire life. The life you live depends on the choices you make, the risks you take, and how lucky or unlucky you’ve been. Assess every situation carefully, and then check you heart and your gut whether the risk is worth taking.
Here are 10 big risks that everyone should take in life and it’s worth taking :
(i) Risk Of Failing
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Failure is inevitable. Failing is both the worst and the best thing that can happen to anyone. When you don’t fail, you succeed. When you do fail, you succeed at figuring out another way of not doing it again. You succeed at getting back on your feet from the fall. We too often allow our emotions to get in the way of logic. You may not be able to see a path right now, but that doesn’t mean it’s not here. Have faith because it maybe a blessing in disguise. If you don’t risk failing, then you can’t succeed. Success requires risking failure and from failure, we learn how to appreciate the value of success.
(ii) Risk Of Getting Turned Down
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More often than not, we are getting turned down not because of what we do, but because of the indivual who is rejecting our request. People hate rejection and they take it as a misfortune. But they don’t know that we can turn our misfortunes into a life enhancing events. We can learn something from our mistakes. The more we try, the better we learn how to engage some good interaction skills and interpersonal qualities.
(iii) Risk Of Making Mistakes
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Mistakes make us human and as a human, we can’t avoid ourselves from mistakes. In the light of making a good mistake, you will become much wiser than before. Mistakes need to be made if you want to succeed in life because that is how we learn something. If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not trying enough things. Needless to say, you’re not living enough when you don’t make enough attempt out of your life.
(iv) Risk Of Opening Up And Being Vulnerable
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Some of us spend half our time trying to fit in the crowd and the other half trying to stand out from it. Why is that? It seems to be universal, part of our human nature that we can’t be comfortable with ourselves. When it comes to relationships, opening up and revealing your true seld is necessary. If you don’t open yourself up, then the other person will never see the real you and therefore will never be able to accept you for who you really are. You have to risk it all to have it all and it’s worth taking.
(v) Risk Of Taking The Road Less Traveled
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The road less traveled is a scary road to take. It hasn’t been mapped out and hence, the only thing you really have to go on in hopes of reaching your destination is you perseverance, intellingence, emotions, and a bit of luck. Luck is useful and it helps you when you feel like giving up. It’s a lot of risk getting there, but once you do, it’s well worth your trouble. Good things come to those who wait. Sometimes in life you will not get the answers you seek right away. You have to walk by faith and learn to trust in the possibilities for better days ahead, for a fulfilling and purposeful life.
(vi) Risk Of Putting It All On The Line
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We can’t always get the results we want and sometimes, we have to accept the consequences too. If we don things right, there will be a time in our lives where we have to decide whether or not we want to put it all on the line and no what is necessary. It’s better to fail after you’ve tried rather than failing to try. The longer you wait to make decisons, the more difficult it will be to bounce back when you fall. The biggest achievements often require the largest risks. Take a risk but be smart and make sure you exactly what you are risking and exaclty what you would be getting as a reward. Stop assessing your feelings and start acting on it.
(vii) Risk Of Losing Friendships
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Friendships can be great, but they can also be very restrictive and worst-case scenario, betrayal. The friendships we perceive on one side and the truth on the other. It’s a terrible feeling to lose friendships but there’s no point of pointing your fingers in the dark. Following our dreams usually involves quite a bit of solitude. There’s nothing wrong if you want to burn bridges because friendships make it very difficult to take the time that you need to get the work done. They should understand that you may have to distance yourself a bit and then work together to keep the friendship alive even when you don’t see each other much. But true friends should support you and your dreams no matter what. So, keep your true friends close.
(viii) Risk Of Being Judged
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As long as you know what you’re doing, you make your own decisions and that decisions are under you control, then there’s no one that can stop you from being who you want to be. Everyone hate when they’re being judged regardless of the fact that we do it all the time and that we are being judged all the times. It’s what we do and we can’t stop others from doing it. But the most important thing is that you know yourself more than anybody does. Don’t let them stop you from doing anything that you want.
(x)Risk Of Losing Everything From Something
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Good things are rare to get and hard to keep. Often times, people are afraid of doing something because of their past experience, people’s expectations and mostly, fear of losing big things in their lives. When you first start out in anything, you didn’t have any idea what you’re doing. And it is good. People who know what they are doing, know the limit and what is possible and what is not. But you do not. You should not. And it is good when you don’t know the limit so that you can do anything beyond the limit and test the possibilities. Where is the fun to do the things that you know will work? If you never try, then you will never know. It is better to lose every useless thing when you know you’re chasing something valuable rather than keeping all useless things but you fail to achieve things that matter.
(xi) Risk Of Being Reckless
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No one comes out with the perfect idea of how to be someone successful or how to be happy all the time. In fact, the perfect thing depends on the feedback that you receive from others and this feedback only comes after several literations of testing. This is not a reckless thing to do but it’s the smartest attempt in life. If you wait too long to act, then you are missing out on critical learning process. If you have any ideas of what you want to make, what you want to do, then just go and do that. And that is much harder than it sounds but in the end it is so much easier that you might have imagined. Because normally there are things you have to do before you can get to the place you wanted to be