What is a Risk?

These prompts seem to be stuck in a rut at the moment. So, for today I will zoom out and look at what a risk is.

To some, a risk will mean doing something very much out of the ordinary. I suppose an example of that would be the decision we took to take the job offer in Japan. It made sense at the time because I had no other option, if I wanted to return to teaching, so was it really a risk? To others a risk is making one decision when you could make another and it’s something we do every day, multiple times a day even if that decision seems to be a huge one. I can look at the way in which I decided to finish full time work but that was not one decision as such but the culmination of a series of decisions over a period of time. By the time I had made the decision to leave INTO it was a very straightforward one even if it appeared to be fairly major to my colleagues.

It is probably very much easier for us to look at big and small decisions that take our lives forward rather than risks. When we think about risk we can equate it to danger and find ourselves dissuaded from taking a decision that is, in every sense, logical and simple as well as correct. It is a realisation I have come to quite late in my conscious mind but one that my unconscious mind has long accepted. So, take those decisions with a clear mind and make them with confidence.