Posts tagged Risk
Why Not to Drink and Drive
Nov 22nd
People don’t have to get intoxicated to feel changes in them. With even a little alcohol the person may have an alteration in his physical or emotional status.
Because of the altered state of people under the influence of alcohol it is not wise to directly operate heavy machinery as it can be dangerous.
A lot of people die day in day out from driving. This is mainly due to the fact that they do not adhere to the simple rule of staying away when drunk.
Several years ago the world was shocked to learn that even airline pilots have been drinking while flying. This caused a lot of news and regulations had to be enacted to curb this issue from taking strong root.
Even today after all those strong regulations preventing flying under the influence of alcohol, it is still been done. Most private plane owners do not go through testing before they fly their aircraft. They tend to take advantage of this and still fly under the influence.
When these pilots take to the sky when they have drunk their vision is impaired, they also tend to lack the needed coordination and reasoning ability to safely operate the airplane and guarantee its safety.
Plane accidents are serious. They can cause a lot of havoc. This can range from the plane to even destroying buildings on the ground. Crashes put the pilot, the passengers and citizens at risk. These accidents are also deadly and in cases where they do not cause death they still badly injure the people.
When you are an innocent passengers who gets into an accident because your pilot was under the influence of alcohol you can ask for financial compensation but before you embark on any legal actions you must seek professional advice before continuing.
Swimming With Jellyfish – Creating a Positive Attitude Despite the Recession
Sep 16th
Most of us only tend to live our lives at about 50% of our potential. In other words, we’re doing only half the things we could be doing. In fact, I’ll put it even more bluntly. The lives most of us are missing out on are the goals, hopes and desires that we REALLY want and need to make our lives more complete and worthwhile. And those are the ones that require confidence so we can enable ourselves to have a go at achieving something which we can later look back on with contentment and, as a result, greater confidence.
It’s much easier to take the less challenging option and live with that, but, in so many of us, there are niggling thoughts about what could be or even might have been. This is down to a mixture of fear and lack of confidence. Whether it’s bungy jumping from a perilous height, taking a spontaneous motorbike tour of Europe or asking that special person out on a date or leaving the job you’ve never really liked and starting your own business, most people take the safe option of maintaining the status quo.
Doing the things that unnerve or even frighten you takes you into the Adventure Zone – a mysterious, unpredictable and limitless place where anything can happen – where you have to address any lack of confidence as it’s the only way to experience and enjoy all this environment has to offer. It’s unsettling, but it can be excitingly life-changing.
The other option is to stay in the Safe Zone – an easily identifiable, predictable and limited place where only certain things can happen – where limiting beliefs and limiting attitudes flourish with little risk of you benefitting from anything that might change your life for the better. It’s the place to settle if you don’t want to change your life for the better – but most of us can and probably need to improve our lot – and want to spend too much time wondering what you and your life could be like if only you took that crucial step into the relatively unknown.
I know this from my personal and professional clients and from the seemingly endless number of people I meet who live as If Only people in the Safe Zone. If they have a certain level of life ambition, they exist with this manacle of often polite and restrained frustration because they haven’t really given this part of their life a proper go. This could be because they’ve been made to feel bad about themselves when a youngster, because they’ve never got the job or promotion they really wanted, because they’ve got an overdraft, because their partner left them to marry a gnu called Bernard in the Far East, etc.
Some or all of these things may well have happened – even if the gnu wasn’t called Bernard – but that doesn’t mean you have to be tied to that experience for the rest of your life and let it flavour and dominate how you live your life, particularly if it doesn’t make you feel good.
Would you swim with jellyfish if you knew they would sting you?! If you have to think about that for even a second, then Bernard beckons as does some bizarre ensuing marriage ceremony. Wouldn’t you go and find somewhere else for sting-free and limb and life damaging-free swimming? And in doing so you’d more than likely have to explore new places and options which in turn would give you a new perspective and you’d also be more thorough about finding out how safe the water was to swim in. You’d do more, gain more and feel more in control. You’d make things happen and, in so doing, develop the level of confidence you may well have been lacking.
Confidence gives you the impetus and therefore the self-belief to grasp opportunities in life so you can enjoy them and even succeed where you might not have otherwise. Therefore you can find new and deeper ways of fulfilling your potential to achieve happiness, success and stronger self-esteem. And if you are married to a gnu called Bernard, then good for you for giving it a go with a rather dysfunctional and hysterical migrating wildebeest. As that takes confidence.
