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y mother used to say to me things like, “play it safe”, “a bird in the
hand is worth two in the bush”, and a million other statements that she would come up with to protect me. All of my life I have been a risk taker. I am just like my father, the kind of people that have to learn the hard way. I pre- fer 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. What are some of the more memora-
ble risks that I’ve taken? Well, I moved to LA right out of college with my boyfriend and no job. But I got one. I left a tenure-track position at a major uni- versity to go to work for a supplement company in North Carolina. I left that job to move back to CT, again with no job. I left another great position to start my publishing company. I broke off an engagement. I got divorced. I believe all of these choices were stepping stones to prepare me for where I am today. Taking risks is so important in terms of making you stronger and more resil-
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ient 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 han- dle, if you’re paralyzed because you’re afraid to fail, then you’ll never reach your dreams because you will always stay in your safe, little comfort zone. 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 wondering, “what if”. 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. Sure, there will be some things that I may end up re- gretting, 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 take a risk and you fail that’s
fantastic, because you had the courage to step out of your comfort zone and you will have learned something valuable about what happened and more impor- tantly, about yourself.•
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