Comments on: Law #85 – Position Yourself To Be A Risk Taker http://stanleybronstein.com/law-85-position-yourself-to-be-a-risk-taker/ Personal Development Blog of the Founder of the Achievement IQ Movement and Creator of the Laws of Positioning Tue, 31 May 2011 13:12:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stanley Bronstein http://stanleybronstein.com/law-85-position-yourself-to-be-a-risk-taker/comment-page-1/#comment-1831 Stanley Bronstein Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:02:32 +0000 http://stanleybronstein.com/?p=254#comment-1831 Luis: The best thing one can do to evaluate risk is to learn from their experiences. As you have correctly identified, there is no easy answer, BUT WE MUST STILL TRY TO FIND ONE. Stanley Bronstein MrAchievement Luis:

The best thing one can do to evaluate risk is to learn from their experiences.

As you have correctly identified, there is no easy answer, BUT WE MUST STILL TRY TO FIND ONE.

Stanley Bronstein
MrAchievement

]]> By: Luis Coronado http://stanleybronstein.com/law-85-position-yourself-to-be-a-risk-taker/comment-page-1/#comment-1830 Luis Coronado Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:54:52 +0000 http://stanleybronstein.com/?p=254#comment-1830 Evaluating the risk involved in a given project can be almost a project itself. Learning how safe or intelligent a risk may be can put you in a position where you have to decide if: you want to learn the rest along the way or just dump the idea. I am sure others have faced this before, they simply cannot answer the first question and waste their time without doing a thing. Evaluating the risk involved in a given project can be almost a project itself. Learning how safe or intelligent a risk may be can put you in a position where you have to decide if: you want to learn the rest along the way or just dump the idea. I am sure others have faced this before, they simply cannot answer the first question and waste their time without doing a thing.

]]> By: Change is SOOOO good! - Consumed - EastValleyTribune.com http://stanleybronstein.com/law-85-position-yourself-to-be-a-risk-taker/comment-page-1/#comment-1558 Change is SOOOO good! - Consumed - EastValleyTribune.com Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:47:29 +0000 http://stanleybronstein.com/?p=254#comment-1558 [...] a quick side trip from my series on healthy eating while traveling. Over the weekend I read a blog about taking risks and it dawned on me that three years ago this week, I left my medical practice of 14 years. I [...] [...] a quick side trip from my series on healthy eating while traveling. Over the weekend I read a blog about taking risks and it dawned on me that three years ago this week, I left my medical practice of 14 years. I [...]

]]> By: Stanley Bronstein http://stanleybronstein.com/law-85-position-yourself-to-be-a-risk-taker/comment-page-1/#comment-1474 Stanley Bronstein Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:40:19 +0000 http://stanleybronstein.com/?p=254#comment-1474 Michelle: It's scary sometimes to jump off a cliff, BUT, as I've been told before: If you're going to jump off a cliff, you might as well fly . . . And that is precisely what you did . . . Stanley Bronstein MrAchievement Michelle:

It’s scary sometimes to jump off a cliff, BUT, as I’ve been told before:

If you’re going to jump off a cliff, you might as well fly . . .

And that is precisely what you did . . .

Stanley Bronstein
MrAchievement

]]> By: Michelle May MD http://stanleybronstein.com/law-85-position-yourself-to-be-a-risk-taker/comment-page-1/#comment-1472 Michelle May MD Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:15:57 +0000 http://stanleybronstein.com/?p=254#comment-1472 This law played a very powerful role in my life. I had a successful medical practice for 14 years. During the last six years I developed a passion for helping people break free from yoyo dieting. Two books and 1000's of people later, I knew I needed to take a risk and step out of the safety zone of my practice so I would have the energy and space to reach the millions more who can be helped. Jumping ship into the wide blue ocean has paid off in personal happiness and the ability to control my own destiny. Now I am able to serving many others in a way that wasn't possible while I stayed on deck. Risky but well worth it! Michelle http://www.amihungry.com/ This law played a very powerful role in my life. I had a successful medical practice for 14 years. During the last six years I developed a passion for helping people break free from yoyo dieting. Two books and 1000′s of people later, I knew I needed to take a risk and step out of the safety zone of my practice so I would have the energy and space to reach the millions more who can be helped.

Jumping ship into the wide blue ocean has paid off in personal happiness and the ability to control my own destiny. Now I am able to serving many others in a way that wasn’t possible while I stayed on deck. Risky but well worth it!

Michelle
http://www.amihungry.com/

]]> By: Stanley Bronstein http://stanleybronstein.com/law-85-position-yourself-to-be-a-risk-taker/comment-page-1/#comment-1390 Stanley Bronstein Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:40:19 +0000 http://stanleybronstein.com/?p=254#comment-1390 Andrea: To me the phrase "good risk" is virtually the same thing as "potentially successful risk". I think you and I are both saying the same things, but just using different words. To me a good risk is one that has enough of a chance of being successful to make it worth taking. I also agree that sometimes you've just gotta do things. There are some risks one must take no matter what, HOWEVER, we can then sometimes take steps along the way to increase the chances that such a "risk" that we just have to do will be successful. Stanley Bronstein MrAchievement Andrea:

To me the phrase “good risk” is virtually the same thing as “potentially successful risk”. I think you and I are both saying the same things, but just using different words.

To me a good risk is one that has enough of a chance of being successful to make it worth taking.

I also agree that sometimes you’ve just gotta do things. There are some risks one must take no matter what, HOWEVER, we can then sometimes take steps along the way to increase the chances that such a “risk” that we just have to do will be successful.

Stanley Bronstein
MrAchievement

]]> By: Andrea Beaulieu http://stanleybronstein.com/law-85-position-yourself-to-be-a-risk-taker/comment-page-1/#comment-1389 Andrea Beaulieu Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:12:18 +0000 http://stanleybronstein.com/?p=254#comment-1389 Hi Stanley. So the question is, how do you determine what is a "good" risk and what is a "bad" risk? Personally, I would perhaps say, what is a potentially successful risk and what isn't. That's the tough part. I know there are lots of way from a business perspective to evaluate risk, but sometimes it's something you just "gotta do," then it's a "good" risk no matter the outcome. Thanks for this interesting info and perspective. Andrea Hi Stanley. So the question is, how do you determine what is a “good” risk and what is a “bad” risk? Personally, I would perhaps say, what is a potentially successful risk and what isn’t. That’s the tough part. I know there are lots of way from a business perspective to evaluate risk, but sometimes it’s something you just “gotta do,” then it’s a “good” risk no matter the outcome. Thanks for this interesting info and perspective.

Andrea

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