Courage
It was Roy Bennett that said, "Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them." In order to dare your challenges you must first be determined to take the first step. It begins inside of you.
Ernest Hemingway said that "Courage is grace under pressure." Now, grace is not ease, but if you find the audacity to draw strength from within, whatever the pressure that piles up in or around you will fizzle out. And even if it does not, you would have converted it to strength. It is only a matter of time. Good news is that, that inner strength is courage.
Courage can be partner to the insight that you receive in your muse. The reason is that if you can see the big picture, then you are able to draw on the strength to make a move. This is what many are deficient of and because of this, they are not able to move from the position they are in. They may actually be in some activity but they are not making any progress. They stay stuck.
In order for us to grow, we must venture. We do need good alliances and great alignments. This is the interdependence that helps us work a mastermind. It requires some good element of trust. To find trust, we must have surrendered and willed ourselves away in order to be of benefit to others as we serve them. We are not afraid of losing anything. We have committed our all to a cause.
The courage to trust is an uncommon one. That courage connects with the essence of knowing, the revelation that works understanding in that which we pursue. Unless you have the revelation of something, you may find it difficult to take a risk for it. Some private information is shared with you that makes you charge forward.
Courage is uncommon power that we draw on in the face of fear. "We are born into a strange time-a time that tries men's souls. Bewilderment and fear hold many; change and uncertainty stalk through the land-all lands," Ralph Waldo Trine. How apt and relatable to this time are these words?
This thought, though written in 1897, holds true today. While courage is not without fear, it is the innate force that triumphs over the arrows of fear. The strength of courage shows in the risks we are willing to take to see us through to the end of an arduous condition.
Elon Musk said of risk: "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour." This is what courage makes you do. In alignment with faith, it goes ahead to overcome fate, the immanent will. Courage is the author of its own fate because it creates what it imagines and conceives regardless of the phobic situation in the environment, whether imagined or otherwise.
Courage acts in silence. It makes no noise and doesn't announce its arrival. Courage stoops to launch and conquers through same model. Courage is infectious through influence and the results it earns. Little wonder that courage is an unwavering all time leadership tool and force by which outcomes are earned and growth is materialised.
Courage borrows from faith to exhibit its magic powers of creativity and manifesting innovation based on deliberate efforts. It finds the boldness to start and the consistency to finish a cause or project despite jeers and heckling. Courage is its own cheerleader.
How do I keep going in what seems a hopeless situation? The only key required is the courage that though you walk through the wilderness, you will drink from your oasis. Courage is the software that keeps reminding you of the temporary nature of the present delays and keeps the big picture in your view all the time.
Can you imagine you despite your big dreams, you are being threatened with rejection right now? Sometimes visions that are contrarian to the positive can be so disconcerting that you are almost left with no option but to quit. This is an asphyxiator of courage.
The only way and time to have courage is to have courage when everything seems in despair and disarray. You can't die today of the threat that looms tomorrow when you still have today to make a difference. This is where the courage to trudge on is required. Nothing matters but this moment. Live in the moment.
Courage overcomes fear. Courage is not necessarily the absence of fear. Fear never goes away. However, fear can be stifled and caged by faith. With faith in place, courage finds the strength to navigate. Courage becomes activated and ventures into the place of accomplishment.
You have the courage to go forward when you have the surety and assurance of your product and service. This assurance is a fuel. It is energy like passion. It keeps you going towards the path of vision. It reminds you always that the process is necessary to earn and manage the proceeds.
Courage understands it all. It visualizes and lives in the face of hopelessness and confusion.
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