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pring is just around the corner and with it comes lots of new beginnings for Natu-
ral Nutmeg! The issue you are holding is our first debut on new paper with full color and a cutting-edge barcode technology that is ex- plained to the side of this publisher’s letter. The last few months have been exciting and a little bit scary as we were making the transition from newsprint to this new style of magazine. Some people told us we were taking a big risk, which reminded me of exactly who I am and why we made the decision to do this. My mother always used to say to me things
like, “play it safe”, “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”, “that’s too risky” and a million
other statements that she would come up with to protect me. But all my life I have been a risk taker most of the time, which has probably added to her gray hairs and stress level! I am just like my father who was constantly trying new business ventures, some of which worked and some didn’t, but we are the kind of people that have to learn the hard way – as my mother would put it. I prefer to think of it as we need to try new things, make our own mistakes, figure out what works and what doesn’t and learn from our experiences. That’s why taking risks can be so important in terms of mak-
ing you stronger and more resilient to failure and things not working out the way you had planned. If you never take risks, if you never strive to achieve something bigger than what you can handle, if you’re paralyzed because you’re afraid to fail, then you’ll never reach those big goals and dreams because you will always stay in your safe, little comfort zone. For me, I realized at a very young age that the one thing I
could never accept at the end of my life was to be left wonder- ing, “what if” in any area of my life. I’ll give up safety, security and stability to ensure that I have tried every possible thing that I could ever desire to do so that I won’t be asking that question in my old age. And sure there will be some things that I’ll risk that I may end up regretting, but at least I’ll have the answer to what would have happened if I did it versus wondering about it. To me, the wondering is much more painful than trying something and failing. If you are the kind of person that really fears taking risks and the possibility of failing, I encourage you to gradually introduce some small risk taking into your life and see what happens. If you take a risk and succeed, fantastic! If you take a risk and you fail, that’s fantastic too, because you had the courage to step out of your comfort zone and I’m sure if nothing else, you will have learned something valuable about what happened and more im- portantly, about yourself. You might even find that it can actually be fun!
In health and happiness,
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