RIGHT RISK

"She needs a surgery", Doctor Clark declared to Jacobs. Ben Jacob and Sam Jacob are the parents of Fika. Fika Jacob is a four year old girl who has been struggling with terminal brain tumor diseases for the past few months. "The surgery has a 50/50 chance of survival. Also if she doesn't undergo the surgery, she only has a few days before she die", the doctor explained further. 

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Experts don't always have the last word on risk. Sometimes they only add to your doubt and confusion about the uncertainties and risks you face in life.

Life is all about risk. The life you live is full of risk. To simply shrug off and ignore risks could be a senseless and tragic mistake. The day you realize that the situation you currently have on ground is dead, and even if you take a risk, it still might not be successful, is the day you will start taking risk because apparently you have nothing to lose. 

Worries accomplished nothing. There's never been a case where worry did anyone any good. Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do. The failure you experience in the risk that you take shouldn't be the reason you won't keep trying. Failure is the stepping stone for greater success ahead. 

Most things that people don't know is that failure is a lesson on its own. You get to know your mistakes, your faults. You will get to know the exact thing that you didn't do right which made you experience that failure. Then you get to correct your wrongs when you embark on that same project again. Your failure in the risk you've taken gives you another opportunity to re- write your own success story. 

It is one thing to take a risk, it is another thing to take the right risk. There are two groups of people who have made a serious life- impacting mistakes in their approaches to risk. First are those people who sadly are so afraid to take any risk that they never actually manage to do anything of true significance in their lives. Second are those individuals who take all the wrong risks and tragically end up hurting or destroying themselves or others in the process. Lives are ruined either way, and both groups fail to reach their potential. They never discover or enjoy the true purpose for which God placed them on earth. 

The greatest and most valuable resources we have for making crucial decisions are knowledge and it is the amazing brain power God gave human beings when he created us. Knowledge is certainly true for deciding your best response to any risk you ever face. Therefore, get the right knowledge about the risk you want to take. Make research. 

Also, somewhere in the scriptures says " Commit your ways unto the Lord, trust in him and he shall direct your path". Most people forget that God is the one that makes all things possible. He is the very one that brings all things to pass. So, prayer is also a vital weapon when taking risks. Commit your project to God's hand. Yes, I understand that you have all the resources, wisdom and strength but you still need to get God involved in it. Take it to him in prayers. 

There is no shame in failure. There is no harm in trying. There is no error in embarking on that right risk. It is only a shame if you stop without trying. Your best is not enough. Keep trying until you become a good success. And with God on your side, excellence will be your first name.