Courage… courage is the ability to do something that frightens you. Look at the symbol: it seems to walk to the right… but look at another thing: it is sturdy. It is hard to remove it from upright… It stands on two sturdy legs… stocky… Without the ability to stay standing, no courage will be enough.You need to use it… do you use it? Or do you run? Hide? Play poop hiding in the tall grass?
Courage is a DNA capacity. It needs to be turned on for you to have it…. When you need it it is available.
But you are the boss… you can use it, and continue in the face of fear, or you can shrink, run, hide… the things people do to evade a threat.
Some fear is a wake up call… you better run. Like if you are on the train tracks and a train is coming. Get out of the way.
Other fears are an indicator that you are walking on uncharted territory, and you need to pay attention.
And yet other fears are ego fears… they come because you are rocking the boat.
This is the kind of fear you’ll experience when you attempt to grow.
It’s the what-if fear. What if I am not going to like it? What if people won’t like me? What if I’ll be alone?
The capacity “being deserving” has put one of the participant into that fear just now.
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