Do you wait for uncertainty to explore your risk bearing skills?
By: Shruthi Belliappa
Tags: Life Hacking, Risk, Risk Management

Risk: A new perception of life!

RISK: What the heck is this?

Can I survive?

Do I have risk-bearing skills?

Where do I learn it?

Let me hit the top 10 risk management skills!

I’ll practice and I’ll survive!

Why am I failing?

Am I so fragile?

OMG, my adversity quotient is a big zero!

Am I incapable of leading life!

So the list of self-affirmation coupled with enormous negative thought trips in your mind from days to months, making you weaker and weaker day by day.

If you are one among them, here is the truth!!!!. Brace yourself and embrace it.

‘Risk’ broadly defined as an exposure to danger, is a part and parcel of our day-to-day life. However, the extent or the scale of danger does vary. COVID-19, no doubt an unprecedented situation the globe is facing today. But will be completely wronged if I quote the pandemic plunged uncertainties are the only risk we are exposed and left to meddle with. If you are puzzled by the above disclaimer, let me remind you of your birth. As a baby, you and me had battled our survival, right from the zygote formation, full-fledged organelle development to be delivered from our mother’s womb. The whole essence of life stands on the truth of “Risk bearing”. Now tell me are you not a risk bearer? Don’t you have a skill of risk-bearing?

If the answer is a big yes, I proceed with the next question of risk management. As a kid, we all have started from crawling to standing, falling miserably and learning to walk. Have we ever questioned our abilities? Though unaware of skills, we eventually mastered it. Likewise, every individual is born with tremendous risk-bearing as well as managing skills. As we grow up, the cozy comfort, pampered upbringing, and ease of every luxury at our fingertips let us, as well as our parents, forget to tame our survival/risk management skills.

How to tame our risk-bearing skills?

1. Healthy upbringing

Parents, teachers, friends-circle and culture in which an individual is raised play a pivotal role in training our brains and emotions. Every parent and culture has its opportunities to influence a child or an adolescent incorporating their norms. But have no right to judge their kid’s abilities by his/her class grades, dance performances, sports medals, and cracking medical, engineering, or CA entrances. Every individual should be taught to take “Failure: an opportunity to grow” instead of “Failure: the end of success”. Providing comfort at fingertips is every parent’s dream. However, teaching your kids to excel with minimal facilities is an equal responsibility. Teachers, take up the next important role. A good teacher focuses and celebrates the overall development of a student instead of flaunting on top graders laurels. The value of education, empowerment, and ethics should be equally inculcated as much as money, career, status, and power.

2. Know your self-worth

Every individual knows their own abilities. No matter how badly judged by their parents/society, bullied by their friends, tortured by their co-workers, do know what they are best as well as worst at. Appreciate your best skills and master your pathetic skills. But never see yourself down by others’ eyes. Know who you are and never compromise on anything lesser than what you deserve.

3. Be ready for everything, life throws at you

Life gives enormous opportunities to dive in. The outcome may be a success or a failure. Be proud of your success and celebrate failures for getting a chance to perfect your flaws. Be immune to overwhelming success as well as depressing failures. Remember success and failures are the outcomes of your efforts and responsibilities. So the credit goes entirely to your credibility, not the outcome perse.

4. Have a positive attitude

Having hopes, at times you are pathetically failing, does give strength to stand up. Once you can stand for yourself, reaching success is not the bigger task. Journaling, meditating, reaching out to your loved ones, or watching out well-being podcasts are few strategies to avoid negative thoughts and having a positive attitude in your life.

5. Be authentic in your relationships

If you can build trust as well as have trust in an opponent, maybe a spouse, partner, friend, co-worker, employee, employer, or the boss, then you are authentic. It takes sheer responsibility, compassion, empathy, and dedication towards your opponent or your tribe over time to build trust. Non-judgemental in your acceptance pledges you to explore authentic people in your life. Authentic people never need an explanation of your authenticity and stick towards you however best or worst the situation is.

Risk is just one more hurdle to win.

You are born of risk and trained to take up the risk

Do face it and flourish the beautiful outcome forever!