Too often people attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They don’t feel fulfilled, yet they’ve found a formula…not of success…but of avoiding failure. For me, this is the living death…when security becomes the overarching goal. It’s as if they sell out for the promise of security by being so careful and by doing so cheat themselves of the real promise of growing by taking advantage of opportunities that present themselves . Life is a risk, but I don’t look at life as a crap shoot. The risk-taking is absolutely essential for continued success in life. If you risk nothing, you get nothing. It’s only when you reach beyond the safety and familiarity of your previous patterns, that you find the true happiness that could be yours. ~ Mack Newton
