The Gift of Courage

Courage is the innate ability to take the Bull by the horns and run with it. It is the ability to stand up for what’s right and do something about it!

Courage also means to know when to step away and not act on impulse. When facing animals, backing away facing the animal usually deflates the situation, however if you turn and run, chances are the animal will chase you and take you down. Face it down and you will move forward.

You see, courage is facing up to responsibilities, courage is trying something new, and courage is forging ahead in the face of failure after failure after failure until you succeed.

Courage takes practice. Start with baby steps then move on to more courageous acts, and you will see how easy it is to face your demons as well as look into the eyes of what you are fearing and brush it away with positive actions.

Inaction is an action as well. Doing nothing inflates fear, and diminishes courage.

Courage is fortitude. Courage is about overcoming fear.

Courage is facing your worst nightmares, and courage is making changes in your life, regardless of what people think.

Are you willing to stand up for what is right, and condemn in the face of adversity what is wrong? It’s easy to be placid about events happening around the world, it takes real courage though when you are faced with a traumatic situation, like pulling someone out of a burning car, without regard for your own safety.

The gift of courage allows people the firmness of mind to pursue out of their comfort zone. No one’s life is so charmed that they don’t need courage. We all need courage to succeed, so there are levels of courage that we all possess.

Blind faith is courage, it leaves the work of courage to the Gods, as God will provide. Trouble is, God gave you a brain to develop within your body temple, and gave us the power to use all the tools we possess which includes the courage tool. You might have to sharpen this tool because of disuse. I suggest we hone it down, dust it off and use the courage tool, to face the adversity, the negativity, and the thoughtlessness that exists around us and step up and embrace with courage what we ourselves can only change. Baby steps.

The first level of courage is to take care of oneself, so that you will have the capacity to be courageous for others. This we all do rather well, even for the homeless or sick that are in need of our support. You can be their courage and prop them up.

The second level of courage is to face your fears head-on. When you embrace it, you can control it.

The third level of courage is to do what you fear so the fear flutters away.

Your intensity of courage is your only restrictive element. Raise that restrictiveness and you will lack courage to fulfill your dreams, lower that restrictiveness and you raise your ability to be all you can be.

You can by osmosis, pass courage onto others who need to be shown how to grow courage by example.

Fear wanes when courage grows. Courage doesn't always have to be big and loud. Sometimes courage is saying I'll try again tomorrow.

We are all watched by other people in our actions every day. We are judged on line, at work, at home, at play. Standing up for what you believe in takes courage, so stand up we must.

Our personalities play a part in our courage decisions, like

being out-going, which is putting it out there to see what sticks.

This type of person is an engager who is constantly testing the waters on the edges of courage, waiting to pounce and move forward or put out that fire, and meet head on, adjusting, pushing forward, and always pushing forward. This is a good thing.

One who is meek, shy, and fragile in thinking, doesn’t necessarily lack courage, but watches and waits for the exact moment for when the stars align before exercising courageousness. This is a good thing.

Then there is the middle guy / girl who goes with the flow, never pushy, never testing, those are the people who sit in traffic day in and day out, conforming to a made-up society. These are the masses who hardly are ever courageous, but will step up in crisis. This is a good thing.

En (courage) not dis (courage). This is a good thing.