Do you take risks? If you do, which ones are you most likely to take? Which come easiest, which are most difficult? Do you take risks willingly, anxiously or a little of both?

Are there risks you routinely ignore or refuse to take despite their promise of a positive outcome or more, a big payoff? What would you consider to be the greatest risk(s) you take and why? But perhaps more importantly, which risks do you consider worth taking including those that warrant courageously entering the "lion's den?" Or from a different angle, which goals, rewards or achievements motivate or drive you to take risks?

A careful, under-the-microscope, self-examination of our day-to-day habits and routines can reveal the exact nature and extent of the risks we normally take or don’t take and the consequential aftereffects of either decision. Ideally, this probing self-assessment ought to be keenly focused upon the risks we fail to take but perhaps should take because of what they promise us.

Rather than merely glimpsing, we ought to instead thoroughly inspect ourselves for our willingness to take a range of risks—our risk tolerance. And for a good reason, the aftereffects of risk-taking or risk avoidance can be hugely consequential to who we are. Therefore, when taken, they ought to be well-calculated and only then gambled upon as part of becoming more completely who we are, regardless of the situation or the anticipated outcome.

Take a look at three examples of well-calculated, well-gambled........

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