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Rolling the dice on risk.

The end of a year is usually filled with recaps of the previous 12 months, especially on social media. Between the Top Nine on Instagram, Facebook’s Year in Review and numerous “best of” list stories from around the web, people love summarizing what made their year great and what they’re happy to leave behind.

Last month, the moderator of a Facebook group I’m a part of asked members to share their biggest failure of 2019 as part of a daily reflections exercise she ran throughout December. I thought about it, and couldn’t come up with an example of a time I’d truly failed at something during the year, and quickly realized why – I didn’t take any risks.