EXERCISING COURAGE - Working Out Our Neglected Facility
Steve Pelina wrote an incredibly useful article on living with courage. I won’t repeat his words here, you should go read the article when you get the chance. My favorite distinction was the idea that living with courage does not mean living without fear, but rather living willing to face your fears and pass through them.
His idea of working your courage ‘muscle’ by facing small fears and insecurities before jumping right at your crippling concerns is also a nugget of gold.
The line of my life lately seems to be pointing me along the direction of facing my fears, and is putting the tools to do so in my lap. I’ve been using this idea of exorcising the courage muscle in conjunction with the idea of heading straight into the areas in your life where you feel the most Resistance, and been getting encouragin results.
All this makes me wonder what the world could be like if we all lived courageously, faced our fears, and lived out our dreams. That would be a beautiful thing.