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Risk

Taking Chances

October 15, 2014 by fpdorchak

Take The Leap. By Wing-Chi Poon (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Take The Leap. By Wing-Chi Poon (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
We all love our comfort zones.

Love the knowable.

Claim we’re open to change, to taking chances.

Sure, there are some chances we can take, taking a different route home, ordering something wild and spicy from our usual menu.

But what about taking a chance on something that can really affect your life? Or what you think can change your life? Are you really willing to strike out on that road less traveled? On that bumpier, unexplored passageway? And one person’s “chance” is another’s breakfast cereal. But, if it’s scary to you…that’s what matters.

Are you willing to look into the void?

Insanity has been described as doing the same thing yet expecting a different outcome.

If we expect to break out of our comfort zones, we can’t keep doing the same old thing. But, we all have our parameters, don’t we? And that’s okay. It’s not usually a good thing to totally upend one’s life. But we can initiate change in other ways…the way we think, the way we behave. What we “put out” into the world.

Take a chance. In whatever way that works for you. That’s good for you.

That’s scary for you.

 

 

Filed Under: Metaphysical, To Be Human, Writing Tagged With: Breaking Out, Risk, Taking Chances, writing

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