If success had a formula most people would still not get the answer. Good things await the individual who would dare to take a step to improve towards a higher goal. The good thing is that if he does not quit in advancing towards his goal he will achieve it. Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up were we are going. The successes most people fail to achieve are often the ones they fear to attempt. The most risk is not incurred in pursing higher goals where success is uncertain. Not knowing one’s weakness is what incurres the biggest risk. If everyone must be certain before they attempt anything, we may well still remain in the stone ages.
Most
people don’t believe in impossibility. They believe that whatever is necessary
is possible. Isn’t that why necessity is the mother of innovation? That's the doers' attitude, it's the spirit that has driven some of the most helpful innovations we enjoy
today.
We risk failure to achieve the best. Fear takes
the upper hand when risk tends to only a selfish end. No
success in life said Frances E. Willard is anything but an absolute failure,
unless its purpose is to increase the sum of human good and happiness.
The
diligent farmer does not cease to sow because of uncertain weather conditions
which may not favor his efforts. Very few things favor good when it’s
conceived, it will wither in conception for fear of not succeeding if the conceiver
(for fear of failure) fails to birth it. However, when it manifests it
harmonizes with the forces that encourage and fulfill its cause. Good is like
gold, unpleasant in its ore but goes through the most punishing conditions and
becomes finer and better, it knows to make friend with what would be assumed enemy,
unlike wood which knows to avoid virtually everything. Man is what he makes himself.
The
most common risk which I think of as a common mistake is, not having a goal and
then setting out without a plan. The tragedy is not having a goal to reach, you
are most likely to achieve a thing with a goal setting than without a it. Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your
wings on the way down — Ray Bradbury.
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and why not take risks, click the links below
