From Fails To A Life-Changing Skill: My Biggest Risk

2025 taught me one thing... "Playing safe doesn't always lead to growth". The biggest risk I took that year forced me out of my comfort zone and into unfamiliar territory. It challenged me, stretched me, and changed me in ways I didn’t expect. There were many risks I took especially financial risk to earn more that didn't end so well.

I remember two times, I gave out a 100 dollar for an investment and both flopped, lost my money. I also paid for a skill that ended up to be one I couldn't keep up with because the person did a bad job at teaching the skill after taking the money. I also risked powering down a lot of my Hive for reasons that didn't later work out for me.

But thankfully, all those only taught me lessons that I appreciate I learned. Because there is even a bigger risk I took in 2025 that has been a game changer for me since I took it... The positive risk, I'd say. The one risk I'd definitely take again if I should find myself in that situation again. Paying to learn a skill I knew nothing about was a risk.

It was a risk because at the time, all I could think of was how I'd be able to keep up with it if it did turn out that the trainer will do a good job this time, I barely had time. Also considering the fact that I had paid for a skill before that didn't work out well, there was a good enough reason not to pay and even pay higher for another skill but I did.

The biggest risk wasn't in learning the skill, the biggest risk came when I actually set up a pace for myself to work with so I could utilize the skill I've learned. It's a skill that requires all the things I've not done so easily before, except for the part that it required using tech which I love to explore. I had to risk pushing myself over my own fears.

It wasn't easy for me because I actually went on a long procrastination break after learning the skill for fear of starting and giving up in a short while, I didn't want that, I needed to prove to myself that I could do anything if I put my mind to it. Thankfully, I started and like I said, it has been a game changer as I found myself growing in it.

If someone had told me earlier in 2025 that I would push through learning a skill in the way that I did, making time every week and then every day for another session, I wouldn't have believed I could. It was an intense period for me but I kept moving on to gain the risk taken, learning more into the skill one task at a time. It changed me.

That one decision have led me this far and I'm having clearer goals for the new year 2026, I've learned better that I can't achieve anything from my comfort zone. It's not going to be a smooth ride but it is what makes me know that I'm no longer in my comfort zone and I have the biggest risk I took to thank for that. It was totally worth it.

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