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3 Benefits of Taking Risks In Your Life

September 8, 2025 John Uncategorized No comments

3 Benefits of Taking Risks In Your Life

Are you familiar with the saying “You’ve got to break eggs if you want to make an omelet”? This is a colorful way of reminding you that risk is important in working toward success.

Think about it, if you don’t accept the risk of losing, you won’t have the reward of winning. It’s the risk that gives you the chance to come out on top.

Understanding this helps you see risk taking as positive and beneficial. It’s a behavior that can lead to success in life and in business.

To help you see this GenuLines is going to look at three specific benefits that come from taking risks.

Unexpected Opportunities

You often take a risk to get to a specific benefit. You do X to reach Y. But sometimes that benefit gets pushed aside by other, unexpected benefits.

When you take risks, your actions put you in situations that are not run of the mill or ordinary. Because of this, the reward of being in that situation is also not run of the mill or ordinary.

Taking a risk like this can lead to benefits you could only dream of.

Building Self-Assurance

One of the main benefits of taking risks is that you get better at taking risks. It doesn’t seem logical, but risky behavior leads to even more risky behavior.

Now, when we talk about risky behavior, we’re talking about positive behaviors. No one should ever behave in a way that puts them in personal danger.

That said, taking positive risks allows you to develop the ability to be able to judge the future risk. In other words, you get better at estimating the odds for success the more that you take risks.

Personal Growth

Oscar Wilde once said that experience is the name that we give to our mistakes.

The point here is that mistakes and failure lead to learning and growth. In a strange way, you need to first fail before you can succeed.

This means that if you don’t take risks, you can’t fail. Without risk, you’ll stay where you are.

And that is the ultimate failure.

JohnK 9-8-2025
chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”

~T. S. Eliot

The Importance Of Your Mindset In Anything You Do In Life

October 21, 2024 John Uncategorized No comments

The Importance Of Your Mindset In Anything You Do In Life

There are two distinct approaches to this thing called mindset. And the outcome of each type of thought lies at opposite ends of the spectrum.

The first is a “fixed mindset,” while we call the second one a “growth mindset.” Read on as GenuLines shows you which brings more success in life.

The “fixed mindset” tends to see skills, potential and abilities as pre-determined. So, you can’t improve on them.

The growth mindset is open to the idea that there’s always room for improvement by way of working at it.

The “fixed” category tends to make you feel powerless. In the growth category there’s more optimism about who’s calling the shots so to speak.

But there are a few other big differences in these two attitudes.

The main one is how you view mistakes or obstacles and your attitude toward them.

For example, if you have a fixed mindset, you’re quicker to get discouraged by your first setback. The growth mindset and its optimistic attitude help you “make the best of it.”

Any negativity can turn into a chance to learn and grow. Are you getting the idea that the fixed mindset doesn’t leave much room for growth?

But wait, there’s more!

For one, there’s knowing that your mindset can have a major impact on your health and well-being. A depressed and discouraged attitude can suppress your immune system.

You’re more prone to illnesses. And you might take longer to recover from what your defeated attitude brought you.

With a growth mindset you tend to be sick less often- and happier too.

Experts on the subject agree that you have control over your attitude. Their consensus is that it’s smart to switch out of a fixed mindset.

And you can do it in any phase of your life.

This is good news if you find yourself stuck in the pessimistic fixed mindset. Your fatalistic attitude toward accomplishments and success don’t have to be permanent.

You can always improve.

John K 10-21-2024
chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”