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2.  Take  small  chan  ces  be  fore 

you take big chances. This way 

you’ll build up your experience and 

your ability to handle the ups and 

downs. 

3.  Take evasive ac tion. Change 

course when circumstances 

demand. When a storm rocks your 

boat batten down the hatches and 

___. If you know where you’re going 

you’ll navigate your way through the harshest 

hurricane.

4.  Take heed. Learn from the chances you took. 

Maybe as the captain you could have charted a 

different course. Maybe the crew didn’t perform 

as you expected. It’s all part of life’s journey 

which gives you the knowledge you need for 

your next adventure.

5.  Take heart! Sometimes you take chances and 

they don’t work out. It might be a business deal, 

a personnel hire, or a personal relationship. 

Sometimes you take a step backwards so that 

you can take ___.

And always remember, as someone once said, 

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, 

but often we look so long at the closed door that we 

do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

Never give up.

By Gurbaksh Chahal | May 23, 2014 | 

That is a powerful quote and it can also be used for 

how we live our lives in general. Do we want to play it 

safe or do we want to discover our purpose?

If you don’t go for it; if you don’t reach for the 

stars; if you don’t take chances you’ll ____.

As Wayne Gretzky put it: “You’ll always miss 100 

percent of the shots you don’t take.”

No-one in their senior years looks back and regrets 

things that they tried to do — but they do regret 

things that they did not try to do. Don’t be afraid to 

take chances. Don’t end up reviewing your life saying 

“___” or “If only I had…”

When I talk about taking chances and taking risks 

I don’t mean ___. I’m talking about taking calculated 

risks where you have done your research and assessed 

an opportunity

Mark Twain, encouraging adventurism, said, “Sail 

away from the safe harbor.” But you wouldn’t want to 

sail away without making sure that all of the rigging 

was secure and your boat was loaded with provisions; 

that you had an experienced and trusted crew at your 

side; and you had a clear idea how to ___.

So here are some actions you should take.

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Scale up

Сomplete the table with the information  information from the opposite box. Finally, use the table 

to report the event according to the guidelines. 

Write a report on any touching/impressive event happened recently using clues from the template  

in Ex.13. Follow the guideline below.