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Don't be afraid to take good kinds of risks in your credit union, professional career and life in 2020.

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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.

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Natasha Chilingerian

Natasha Chilingerian

Natasha Chilingerian has worked in the credit union space for over a decade. She joined CU Times as managing editor in 2015 and was promoted to executive editor in 2019. Before that, she served as a communications specialist for Xceed Financial Credit Union (now Kinecta Federal Credit Union) in Los Angeles from 2013-2015, and as a CU Times freelancer from 2011-2013. She has been a professional writer and editor for more than 17 years, specializing in news and lifestyle journalism as well as marketing copywriting for companies in the finance and technology space.

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