You Can Not Avoid Risk If You Want to Become a Leader

You have to act, even if you do not know where it leads you. You gain battle experience from taking risks and handling the consequences. In time, you intuitively know how to act in any situation.

Taking risks is something people need to do quite regularly. If you do not, you will stay at the same place. That is alright for some, yet for those who want to achieve goals, it is an absolute necessity to take a deep breath, trust your instincts and go for it. 

Leaders take risks, followers avoid risk. 

Leaders take control of the situation by acting on their impulse to act, even if they do not know where it would take them. They do not know the result beforehand, just like in many situations in life. That is why young leaders fail often before they become great leaders.

You can only fail if you do not try. To become a leader that makes the right decisions in any situation, you might have to fail a thousand times. It is hard to keep that risk-taking behavior up, because your failures always have consequences. Great leaders deal with them, learn from them and think of ways to do it better next time. They understand failure is nothing personal and they won't allow bad experiences to negatively impact the way they act next time. 

You basically need these failures to get the experience to intuitively know how to act. Taking (calculated) risks is the way to learn how to solve problems. Over the years, these experiences will turn you into someone who is ready to act in any situation. You grow a thick skull from failures and this give you the battle experience to need to be a leader in this world. 

If you know how to act intuitively without exactly knowing in the outcome, you show the world you are not afraid to take the risk and bear the consequences. This gives the right signal to those who allow fear to dominate their lives.

The sheep need a wolf to show them the way.

Salute to those who take the risks if needed, analyze their actions, recognize their faults, improve their tactics over time, bear the consequences of their failures and never allow fear to motivate their future. These are the leaders that will have the trust of their followers. 

They have earned that right by going to war with fear their whole life. This skill makes them equipped to lead the pack and even though they do not exactly know where to go, they will take that responsibility. These men or women are the wolves of our world. You simply have to respect them.