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The A to Z of Being Daring

The A-Z of Being Daring

Being daring is an attribute that resides within all of us...

We are all daring in different ways...

Here is my A-Z guide to being daring. Being daring is an essential part of learning...of developing. We must dare to listen to feedback, to be self-aware and open to new ideas and concepts. 

 

We must dare to accept our limitations and our growth areas. 

We must be daring to seek new ways of working, new ways of relating with others.

We must dare to try new things, we must be daring enough to fail and daring to learn from that failure. Taking risks is daring. Growing and developing is daring. 

How are you daring? 

If you think of a daring attribute please feel free to Contact Us and I'll add your daring suggestion to the A-Z. I'll be sure to credit you next to your contribution. 

A

Application - dare to apply your new learning. Use is, try it, play with it. Do something positive with it. 

Assertive - dare to assert your position, your opinion, your perspective and point of view

Appreciate - dare to appreciate the good things in life

Action - dare to take positive action

Agile - dare to have agility in your approach

B

Brave - dare to be brave, take a leap, give it a go. If you can live with the consequences then go for it!

Belief - dare to believe in yourself, dare to believe that you can

Beliefs - dare to challenge your beliefs, be daring to be open to changing them

Bold - dare to be bold, to try new things, to innovate and create

Behave - dare to try new behaviour

Begin - dare to begin with the end in mind

Build - dare to build your future

C

Challenge - dare to challenge things, to ask why

Choose - dare to make your own choices in life

Create - dare to imagine, dare to try

Courage - dare have the courage

Confidence - dare to develop your confidence 

Collaboration - dare to think who else can help

D

Different - dare to be different, dare to try something different

Difference - dare to see difference as strength

Dream - dare to dream, dare to imagine

E

Everyone - dare to listen, dare to involve others

Empathy - dare to allow yourself in

Enthuse - dare to get be enthusiastic, dare to show your excitement

F

Flexibility - dare to be flexible to trying new things, to flex your styles

Faith - dare to have faith in yourself and your choices 

Friends - dare to contact old friends, to rekindle flames once extinguished

Feelings - dare to express your feelings

G

Go for it - dare to go for it

Giving - dare to be a giver, to be generous 

Goals - dare to set goals and objectives

Grow - dare to grow

H

Happiness - dare to allow yourself to be happy

I

Identity - dare to understand your sense of who you are

Intelligence - dare to explore new aspects of your intelligence

Indicators - awareness of the feedback

Innovative - dare to innovate, to try and fail and to try again, to do something new

Imagine - dare to imagine something different 

Influence - dare to influence the way others feel about you

Ideals - dare to have ideals

J

Junk - be daring to lose the junk in your life

K

Kinship - dare to find likeminded people

Kind - dare to find kindness when others cannot

 

L

Live - dare to have the courage to live a life true to yourself, not the life others hoped and expected of you.

Love - dare to love on another, dare to see love as something that you do and earn

Laugh - dare to laugh

M

Manage emotions - dare to find new strategies to manage your emotions

Multiple intelligence - dare to explore new ways in which you are intelligent

Motivation - dare to find your intrinsic motivations

Mind-set - dare to choose your mind-set, to think differently, to see the world differently, to perceive differently

Metrics - dare to measure your results

N

Network - dare to expand your network, to work with others

O

Opportunity - dare to realise opportunities, grasp them

P

Passion - dare to be passionate, dare to show your passion 

Principles - dare to be true to your principles, dare to be principled at work and out

Proactive - dare to choose proactivity 

Prioritise - dare to put the first things first

Purpose - dare to seek new purpose 

Q

Quit - dare to quit. Better to fail fast, learn from it and move on

R

Realise your potential - dare to realise your potential. So many of us have dreams but fail to go for it. 

Risks - dare to try and to fail, dare to learn from failure, dare to accept that risk is an essential part of growing

Recognition - dare to recognise things that are done well

Results - dare to be results focused

Re-evaluate - dare to reevaluate strategies that are not working effectively 

S

Self-awareness - dare to develop your self-awareness

Sacrifice - dare to sacrifice the old to make way for the new

Synergise - dare to work with others to find new and exciting solutions and opportunities

Support - dare to be supportive of others

Stability - dare to choose to stability over change for changes sake

SMART - dare to be SMART  with your goals (specific, motivating, attainable, relevant and time-bound)

T

Talk - dare to share 

Thank - dare to thank people 

Think - dare to choose to think differently 

Transparent - dare to allow others to see the real you

Timeout - dare to take timeouts, take a step back and review the situation

U

Use our emotions - dare to choose different emotions for different tasks

Understand - dare to seek first to understand then to be understood

Unique - dare to be unique, one of a kind

V

Values - dare to be true to your values, dare to challenge your values, dare to re-prioritise your values

Vision - dare to seek out and work towards your vision 

W

Why - dare to start with why

Work - dare to work less, to spend more time with your friends and family, to do the things you love

Win/win - dare to seek win/win solutions

X (ok I am cheating here big time)

X-plore - dare to explore the new

X-pand - dare to have an open mind and expand your horizons

Y

You - dare to choose the best version of you, not the lesser versions

Z

Zealous - dare to go for it

The A to Z of Being Daring

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...dare to develop yourself today

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