Courage is the tipping point. It is the eye of the needle, the fulcrum point between the downward suction of debilitating emotional states and the upward spiral of life. If you were to ask people randomly on a street corner if they are familiar with the experience of one thing going wrong and then a 'mud slide' of things in their life falling apart, most people would immediately, triumphantly list to you a litany of examples. If you were to Continue Reading
Why Courage? – Part Two
Yes, we all have courage in some areas of our lives. Quite specifically, our courage lies in areas that we feel confident in. So what about the other areas – the topics and territories we’re less familiar with? We (our egos) show up shy there. We (they) doubt that we can respond without falling flat on our own faces. And so we back away. We turn our head. We avert our eyes. We ‘pretend’ that we’re not noticing. We pretend that nothing is Continue Reading