Many people in mid-life want to change their lives and to do something dramatic, butthey are not willing to take any risk to do it. They will only take that risk if they can control the outcome or if they can be assured that no loss is involved...That is a coward's life. The risk comes in the potential loss - that is where the riske makes it all worth it. I don't stand on the sidelines of life!! Pema Chodron said that "Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear." We develop courage through our confrontations with fear - not by avoiding it.