You can build your capacity. Often the people who start businesses and appear to take risks are not special in any way other than they have got capital and connections to do it.
They have the space and support to invest in their conspicuous merit. They are strong because they have resources deeper than hand-to-mouth earning ability. They have a safety net. They know that if things go wrong, there are people they can go to. Rich kids with their parents to back them up.
If you cannot afford to take a risk because you have dependents, you are in a different situation. The comparison is not a fair one. You cannot wave a magic wand to create capacity. It is only possible to start where you are, with a little stretching.
Flexibility is your ability to adapt and adjust to accommodate different situations. Flexibility includes your openness, curiosity, willingness to learn, hunger to look constructively rather than comparatively at the stories of others, and the bravery to change the way you see things.
Even though financial planning starts with how you see the world, that is not set in stone. You are alive. You change. Are you willing to learn?
Bruce Lee suggests, “Take what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.”
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