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Take a Chance to Be Happy

Often, a chance offers an equivalent amount of potential reward as the perceived risk involved. If you take only small risks or chances, it is unlikely that you will end up achieving a huge payoff from these actions. That is okay though, it is far better to take a chance- even a small one, than to avoid stepping out of your comfort zone at all.

By avoiding taking a chance, you are choosing to stay trapped in the reality of your current circumstances. If you are completely and utterly satisfied with every aspect of your life, then perhaps this is justified, but very few of us create the lives of our dreams without taking chances. A lot of chances.

By the time your dreams become realities, you will probably be very good at taking chances. Like most things in life, being willing and able to take a risk takes practice. If you dream of having something in your life, start giving yourself some chances to achieve it.

‘Taking’ chances can be seen in an active rather than passive way. Don’t sit back and wait for opportunities to drop into your lap. Go out and find them, or if you don’t find any ready-made, one-size-fits-all opportunities that feel right to you, then make your own!

It is also important to be on the lookout for opportunities that come to you. Many of us can become so focused on the trivial aspects of daily life, that we fail to notice even the most attractive possibilities that waft right past, under our noses. Wake up and smell the chances!

To take a chance can be perceived in two different ways.

One meaning of chance is, ‘an opportunity or a set of circumstances that makes it possible for something to happen.’ Without chance in this context, we would be doomed to remain in our existing situations, however dissatisfying they might be. The good news is, though, that there are always chances. Whether opportunities come to you, or whether you go out and create them yourself, as long as there is life, there are chances. Every day brings a fresh chance for unlimited possibilities- chances to live and laugh, to learn and grow.

The other meaning chance can have is ‘a gamble or other act involving uncertainty or risk.’ This element of risk is what can keep many of us from seizing, with both hands, the opportunities life offers. Risk is scary. The thing is though that risk is unavoidable. Just being alive holds inherent risks. To get out of bed in the morning is to take a chance. There are any number of things that might befall you when you venture out of your cocoon.

But, guess what? Staying in bed doesn’t eliminate those risks, and in fact presents a whole new set of risks. There is no way that you can embrace life and avoid risk. Trying to stay away from uncertainty only succeeds in blocking you from taking the chances- the opportunities- that offer you the possibilities of a life lived to the fullest.

Choose to take a chance, whenever you can, and you will find that the opportunities for happiness and fulfillment will far outweigh the risks. Give yourself a chance to live your best life!

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