Feeding Courage

Greetings,

Courage. Something you’re taught about in patriotic stories as a child in school. Something you hear about now very rarely on the news. But many times it’s not something you think about using every day, but if you want to live your best life, a stronger life, then you need it. You need big buckets of it and you need to make sure those buckets don’t have holes in them.

Let me elaborate. Sometimes life is tough. I don’t care what the positive reinforcement gurus say. Sometimes getting up after you’ve been knocked down aint as easy as thinking about it in a nice way. That’s when your courage had better be up to par. Sometimes you’re going to have a lot on the line and you’d better come through. When the risk is high you’d better have that courage anchored. Now don’t misinterpret me. I don’t mean you should be looking to make everything in life a struggle or a fight, or to think that every situation will knock you down before you finally get the best of it. If you think that way that’s exactly what you’ll attract. But I believe in a balanced view of life. That means there are times when you will literally think yourself into a success, and there are times when you’d better be carrying a big stick to make it happen.

I think courage is like any other mental trait. Some of it is inborn or tied to how badly you desire your projected outcome. When you’ve got deep seeded want for making those physical gains in your being or whatever other area of life you might be thinking about, you’re more likely to step up to the plate. But the rest of courage is conditioned. You start out identifying what you want. Your desire wells up in you the courage to take the first steps, but the more you practice taking those steps, the stronger your courage gets. Be that working out, or business or love, or any area of life.

Condition yourself to handle any situation with boldness and resolve. The more often you do it, the better you get at it. Get around other people who build up your courage. Read things which inspire and make you act bravely. Listen to music and watch movies that put you in touch with that part of yourself. Stay away from useless crap that tears away and puts holes in your buckets.

It may not seem like much, but little environmental stimulus that chip away at your resolve, build up over time and little gains in mental strength add up to big dividends. Big dividends equals a stronger life.


It’s been said that, “Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”

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