The famous saying “Fortune favors the bold” is a good reminder that we must venture if we wish to gain. However, a careless venture would make you lose everything. Take, for example, Pliny the Elder, who is commonly attributed as coining the term when daring to head toward the powerful eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in search of his friend. He died in that expedition and did not save his friend.
So, not all bold actions are rewarded, I guess. However, the courage to intelligently shake the box of rocks and move the proverbial chess pieces around the board will put you in a position to succeed and take advantage of opportunities that arise only because you dared to do something–to shake that box of rocks.
Waiting for our break is hard, but we must work diligently while we wait.
Thomas Edison put it well when he said, “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”