Positive risk and why things aren’t always so complex

I’ve been away on holiday this week, so I’ve naturally had some time to reflect a little so I though I’d write something based on a change I have coming up and how it came about.

Sometimes the thing that your dying to do for yourself or achieve in a project will seem out of reach and difficult to achieve. The very idea even will make you rule it out many possibilities and choose a track you don’t feel is correct.

So today we consider that not everything is as difficult as it first seems once you open your eye to the different opportunities available to you.

As an example I’ll cite a recent development of my own in which I’ve decided to move to Perth, Australia as an opportunity to work in booming economy and try something new. This isn’t a lifelong dream to move to Oz, for me it’s a change scenery, however I know for many this is something of a dream the long to fulfil at great expense.

In making this move I will be significantly better off, live in a larger apartment than I own in London, avoid a British winter, spend more time outdoors, get to know another culture in greater detail and squeeze in a few weeks travelling round Vietnam into the bargain.

All in all this has been managed not by careful planning but by being decisive and exposing myself to the following positive risks;

• keeping my destination flexible;
• purchasing property that could be easily rented out;
• gaining as much various work experience and volunteering as possible;
• considering working as a means of travel
• getting opinions on various destinations from people I trust and
• setting a deadline to achieve this.

So let’s just hope everything goes well then I can set up the next set of opportunities to spend some time in Asia or South America!