The mission of the High Risk Opportunity website is
to help people live a high-opportunity life
while avoiding the excessive burden (cost and risk) that is normally commensurate
with the associated higher benefits. To live a life
of high opportunity while avoiding the worst part of risk, one must be
skilled at 1) finding opportunities and solving problems which is
where the best opportunities often lie buried, 2) making better
decisions regarding the satisfaction of personal needs, and finally, 3)
implementing their decision/solutions in the face of on-going and
emerging change and unanticipated risks.
To live the good life, both opportunities and risks
must be managed interactively. Fortunately, many good
opportunities exist with no to low risks. But if one wants to
get the most out of life, they must take judicious, calculated
risks. Knowing what risks to take (and when) to gain the best
opportunities is what this website is all about.
Here
are a few golden rules to start with. Everything else is
detail.:
1)
Look for and harvest the "low hanging fruit" before
considering higher risk options. Most low risk
opportunities lay close at hand and are so obvious that most people
don't see them. Learn to see the obvious.
2)
Take more risk...don't live within your comfort zone. After
awhile, an all too comfortable life begins to atrophy.
3)
Don't take risks unless the benefits of gain far outweigh the downside
risks. When the benefits warrant taking a chance, do so. If not,
then don't take the risk until you can arrange circumstance more
favorably.
4)
The ideal balance is neither too much nor too little risk.
5)
Both opportunities and risks must be actively searched for if they are
to be discovered.
6.
Some risks in life are worth taking if the opportunities so warrant.
7)
All known risks need to be managed and one must maintain a vigilant
watch for unknown risks. Always protect yourself by knowing the
risks in advance and managing them.
In particular, this website will
focus on the only two active ways to respond to life, by making
decisions and implementing them.
1) solving problems and making tough decisions, choiceswith
multiple alternatives, multiple objectives, and uncertain outcomes (where
there are chances for both opportunity of gains that exceed expectations and
avoid incurring losses with outcomes below expectations)
2) developing plans to execute those decision so as to increase the chances of
gaining more of the opportunities and fewer adverse outcomes,
and
3)
adapting to circumstances in real time to ensure that the goal you are
striving for remains on track.
This website is intended for use by anyone facing a tough decision/problem and who
must then implement that decision in an uncertain (risky) world. Simplified approaches will be offered
to novices and more sophisticated methods for the experts whether they be
individuals or organizations.
This
website is divided into five sections, each devoted to a particular
aspect of decision-making:
Self-Management
- Life management skills applied to maximizing the human potential inherent
in each individual.
Problem-Solving - Methodology and tools for solving personal or
organizational problems Decision-Making - Methodology and tools
for making personal or organizational decisions Risk Management - Methodology and tools for
avoiding future, adverse contingencies incurred in the pursuit of
individual or organizational goals High Risk Opportunity -
Methodology and tools for making personal or organizational decisions under uncertainty where both high risk and high opportunity are
present.
Death
and Dying - A prescription for achieving a good death which offer
the highest payoff to the end of life.
This website is under
constant improvement with new case studies added periodically. I
invite anyone visiting this website who has a real life problem or
difficult decision (and who doesn't) to email me a short
description.
In return, I will provide you with my insights
from the perspective of the tools and approaches I offer in the
website. Please contact me with a personal case study, specific
questions, or suggestions Via e-mail: chucksooter@hotmail.com Please note that the
automated link may not work and if it doesn't, then just copy the
email address and past it into your own email service to reach me.
If I add your problem to my case studies, I will do so
anonymously.
All new posting are entered in
the section called "What's New"
for your convenience and avoidance of unnecessary searching.
The mission of the High Risk Opportunity website
is
to help people live a high-opportunity life
while avoiding the excessive burden (cost and risk) that is normally commensurate
with the associated higher benefits. To live a life
of high opportunity while avoiding the worst part of risk, one must be
skilled at 1) finding opportunities and solving problems which is
where the best opportunities often lie buried, 2) making better
decisions regarding the satisfaction of personal needs, and finally, 3)
implementing their decision/solutions in the face of on-going and
emerging change and unanticipated risks.