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Go Ahead, Jump!
Ladies Home Journal Taking smart risks—even small ones—can lead to surprisingly big rewards. “Knowledge always trumps fear,” says Melinda Blanchard, author, with her husband, Bob, of Changing Your Course: The 5-Step Guide to Getting the Life You Want. Blanchard has taken many risks herself. She and her husband started a business right out of college with $8,000 and no experience, and then, years later, she chucked her relatively stable life in Vermont and opened a restaurant on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. “People use all kinds of excuses for not making change, and most people say that fear and lack of money are their biggest obstacles,” Blanchard says. “But it is lack of information that usually turns out to be the biggest culprit.” Talk to people who’ve done what you want to do, she advises, and find out about the challenges they’ve faced. “The worst-case scenario is seldom as bad as you think.” |
