top of page
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

Dare to work with Dare Learning...

...dare to develop yourself today

​

Dare to go for it!

bottom of page