Success in any realm of life comes more often from taking chances or risks than from careful and cautious planning.

Success to an individual means achieving what is desired. Every individual has a particular ambition, desire or goal in life. To achieve this goal, the individual does careful planning, sets measures to achieve this goal. In some instances, he needs to take certain risks coming onto his path. These risks make be in form of money, sacrifice of family time etc. A person may achieve success or failure by taking such risk is solely dependent on his fate.

In student’s life, success is getting good marks so that he can take admission for graduation in his respective field of interest. For this the student has to study consistently, plan to take relevant materials, take respective courses to further enhance his study habits. A student takes a risk rather makes an investment and plunges money in to buying the costly study materials and enrolling for course which will help him to achieve the pinnacle of success.

When a person reaches adulthood and starts working in a job or business, he has to take certain risks to achieve his goal. A person may be forced to complete his deadline in work. In such a case, he may have to sacrifice his food, family time. In this way, he takes the risk of his health, neglect family. However, certain times these risks may backfire, the person may get diseases because of his aberration in food habits, the spouse may take a divorce owing to his treatment with his family time.

Let me take an example where planning does not have a role in achieving success. A person investing in shares takes everyday risk of losing his invested money. For such a person, success and failure are frequent. There cannot be any careful and cautious planning to achieve success in such case. Person has to take chances taking into consideration the failure aspect when investing money in share market.

To conclude, to achieve success, careful and cautious planning is the cornerstone however an individual also need to take chances or risks in his life at certain instances to achieve the desired goals.
As the saying goes, “Look before you leap”, an individual has to understand the negative consequences also when taking such risks.