The A-Z of Being Daring
Being daring is an attribute that resides within all of us...
We are all daring in different ways...
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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.
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We must be daring to seek new ways of working, new ways of relating with others.
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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.
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How are you daring?
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Happiness - dare to allow yourself to be happy
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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
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Junk - be daring to lose the junk in your life
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K
Kinship - dare to find likeminded people
Kind - dare to find kindness when others cannot
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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
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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
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Network - dare to expand your network, to work with others
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O
Opportunity - dare to realise opportunities, grasp them
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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
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Quit - dare to quit. Better to fail fast, learn from it and move on
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You - dare to choose the best version of you, not the lesser versions
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Z
Zealous - dare to go for it
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Dare to work with Dare Learning...
...dare to develop yourself today
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Dare to go for it!