I’ve never been a big risk taker.
I’m the baby of the family, I lean towards feeling safe and letting someone else go first. It’s the way it’s always been.
But I have learned the value of being brave and how it changes your life. I’ve written about it several times. I’m a different person simply by choosing to be brave.
Risk is something I’ve been keeping my eye on over the last few years.
There are dumb risks that don’t have good odds and don’t often work out.
But there are other kinds of risk too. The kind you take when you get in your car and drive. Lately they have been telling us that if you don’t wear a mask in public you are taking a risk.
But those things don’t feel like a risk to me because of my competency and beliefs.
What I’m starting to figure out is that a “calculated risk” looks and feels very different than one that isn’t. We might not consider it a risk at all.
Staying in your comfort zone is not the way to a better life. Daring to take risks will. But don’t take a risk for the sake of taking a risk. Just keep growing and moving forward.