Life seems never-ending at times. We often believe that we’ll always have time to achieve our dreams, or that eventually we’ll have the “perfect” moment to step into pursuing them.
But the truth is, we will never encounter the “perfect” moment to pursue our dreams. As motivational speaker Eric Thomas put it, “There will never be a point in your life where it’s the right time to do a great thing. If you’re waiting for that perfect, perfect moment. That perfect timing. It’s not going to happen. You know what you have to do? You have to CREATE the perfect time, and the perfect opportunity, and the perfect situation.” And the only way to do that is to understand that in life, it’s crucial to take risks in order to reach your greatest potential.
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Webster’s Dictionary describes risk as the possibility that something bad or unpleasant will happen, the failure of expectations, and the possibility of loss or injury. Ok, that’s fair. But at some point in our lives, we all have to come to grips with realizing that a risk can also be a life-changing opportunity. It can be an opportunity to fulfill a tremendous goal. An opportunity to believe in yourself with everything you have. An opportunity to do more than you could have ever thought possible.
That’s why it is also crucial that we all come to grips with believing in ourselves. You may not always have someone around you to encourage you to keep going. You may not be sure of yourself, but you have to decide to believe in yourself. You have to push yourself towards where it is that you want to be. Without taking a risk, you will never have the chance to evolve, to progress, and to reach your ultimate self. Yes, it’s fearful. Yes, you may think a lot is at stake. But choosing to take a risk in pursuing your dream is the only way that you can at some point live the life of your dreams.
In life, you may not always have a second chance to do something great. You may not always have someone who believes in you as much as you believe in yourself, and you may not always encounter someone who sees the dream that you see. But it’s crucial that you dare to believe in yourself. It’s crucial that you take risks. It’s crucial that you realize there will never be the right time to do a great thing. Never.
Risks are a necessary part of life. As rapper Big Sean once put it: “[Risk] It’s the necessary element to self-development…it’s the key to living life to the fullest… Risk is the way to overcome what you fear… You can be afraid to risk something or everything, because you don’t want to lose what you have. Because you’re afraid you may fail or think you can’t handle it or whatever the case. You’ll spend so much energy and time trying to keep what you have, instead of progressing into something new. [But] Everything changes. Nothing stays the same forever. Nothing… from business, to personal, to everything in between. I’ve realized you can’t be afraid.”
It’s crucial that we realize unless we attempt to do things beyond that which we’ve mastered, we will never grow, we will never fulfill our dreams, and we will never become everything all that we were capable of being.
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