Risk Taking is:

Opening yourself to change.  It is the accepting of the need for change and it is taking the behavioral steps that will result in that change.

Honest appraisal of a situation in life requiring your action.

Weighing the pros and cons of taking the action.

Making a choice to take the required action.

Performing the action with full consciousness of the risk, pros, and cons, and potential outcome.

Accepting the consequences of such action

The ability to ignore your needs for other's approval in order to take the most appropriate action for you.

The behavioral process involving the gamble that you may experience rejection from others for the actions you have chosen to take.

Pursuing the required actions despite the fear that it will affect others negatively, resulting in their efforts to make you feel guilty about taking such action.

Deciding to make a personal sacrifice of time, energy, ability, and knowledge as an investment to better your circumstances.

Hoping your circumstances will improve as a result of your personal sacrifice, but making it anyway.

The effort to be honest with yourself about your part in interpersonal problems, admitting that you have personal barriers that prevent the resolution of the problem.

Admitting to the others(s) involved what the barriers are and seeking assistance to address those barriers and resolve the problems.  Committing to become objective in pursuing a rational approach to the problem.

The willingness to identify irrational blocking beliefs, which hinder resolutions.

Opening yourself to be identified as being too subjective, too emotional, too obstructing, and too hindering in the resolution of your problem.

The willingness to accept honest, objective feedback about the need for you to change your own behavior.

The effort to be less subjective, less defensive, and more open in your search for truth, honesty, and sanity in resolving your problems.

The willingness to take a healing, forgiving, and forgetting attitude in pursuing the resolution of a conflict.

Opening yourself to be vulnerable, to being taken advantage of by the other in the conflict situation.

Demonstrating your trust in the other person's willingness to accept an honest, open, and upfront approach to resolving conflict.

A "Now"-oriented action

Direct confrontation of a problem.  It is the absence of procrastination and denial in dealing with a problem.

Responsible action taken to pursue the resolution of a problem.