Are you a risk-taker?

I am definitely a risk-taker but I wasn't always that way.  Until about age 40, I followed the familial and societal expectations of me.  Then I had an epiphany.  Actually I read a book entitled "I Will Not Die An Unlived Life" by Dawna Markova.  It wasn't that the text was all that earth-shattering but the title hit me hard.  I wasn't living my life, I was surviving it.  Shortly after reading it, 9/11 happened.  I was catapulted out of my safe world and I realized that time was short, even if I had another 50 years to live.  So I quit my safe job to pursue a business that I had started part-time.  It didn't grow as I had hoped so now I'm back in college getting the skills I need to make it grow.  As a single mother of two teens, both with mental health disorders, many would have thought me crazy.  I feel the best thing I can do for myself and my children is to be happy and as long as I can provide for them (and I am), my life needs to be the true expression of me.