Risk Taking: Baby Steps

Taking risks is risky. Navigating through it is a difficult decision. Should you remain indecisive when you reach this junction? No, because indecision is riskier. So, what are you expected to do?

Take the baby steps!

Picture how you must have taken the first walking step as a toddler. You can relate to this, seeing those young children around you. It wasn’t easy at first. Just like most children, you had a phobia. How did you make your first attempt? Your guide held you in a position. She was about to leave you in a steady place, but you held on to her. An alternative is to hold on a table or chair which guides your steps. Can decision-making be that simple? Yes, it is. 

Here is how.

To make a specific decision, follow the step you took when making a similar decision in the past. Better still, seek the guidance of someone with experience in the area. 

What was your experience in the past? Should it affect the present risk decision? Yes! The emphasis is not to drain the energy for the current task based on past failures. Those failures and successes are lessons for the present. Learn not to make former mistakes while reinforcing admirable ingredients in your past activities. 

Babies learn from their past mistakes. You should do the same. After getting hurt by the attractive fire, he dare not go for second trial until he is mature to play around it.

What was wrong in the past may be right in the present. You were not allowed to handle glass materials in the past due to lacking the stamina to hold a fragile material firmly in your hand, but you now do even with your eyes close. Nobody will stop you. 

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It does not mean things will go the same way as it was in the past. Time has changed, and most factors must have changed to reflect the current dynamism. Change with those changes in the light of present realities.

Inquisitiveness and adventure seeking are in the mental dictionary of most children. They want to carry the heavy load, climb a height, play with razor blade or even drive a car. They can however, be discouraged from making such moves when there is a red flag or warning sign. Why will you attempt the adventure when the warning sign is visible? Change your decision.

Children always learn by imitating adults. They learn from both nature and nature (immediate and external environments). They learn from both good and bad things around them. It is left for parents, guidance or mentor to tame any unruly behaviour. You can apply this to other areas. A mentor should watch you grow and redirect you when you are losing focus. Such person won’t ask for a reward. Their reward is seeing you becoming a mentor like them because you have yielded to their guide over time.

Did you notice what your mummy do regularly? Look closely and start imitating. That’s standing on the shoulder of the giant. You will grow to become higher than them because you can see farther.

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Thus, record keeping is a working skill for risk-taking. Keep track of what you see others doing. Do the same for what you are doing in the present. The purpose is to make your decisions based on facts. That’s how you grow to become a master. Growth is possible because you have accumulated experiences from which you draw wisdom for the present endeavours.

Stop crawling.

You can’t be happy with yourself. Taking a risk can be as simple as a baby taking walking steps. 

Can you recount your experience taking a risk in the past? Help others with those strategies that might help them in decision-making. Don’t hesitate to share the post if need be.