"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now." Joan Baez

When we consider changes we might like to make in our lives in the coming year, not very many of us will be trying to include more risk. Most likely we will be doing the opposite by anticipating and making plans for as many different outcomes as we can. That makes good sense. Risk does have elements of exposure and vulnerability which are not always in our best interests. Sometimes though in trying to eliminate as much risk as we can, we forget that not all forms of exposure and vulnerability are bad. Vulnerability can dazzle us by widening our capacity for delight; exposure is the adventurer leading us to new opportunities. Both are invitations to relax our control and open up to liveliness. Next year when we are faced with a leap and are hovering on the edge trying to decide if we should risk it, we might want to remember that too little risk can create a lot of regret.