What good is character if we do not have courage to implement it? What good is courage if we do not know what and how to implement it? Small choices end up becoming significant choices and prepare a person to face the bigger challenges of life. Players win, players lose, players prepare, players practice, players get hurt. Five Steps to Develop Courage: 1) Face up to reality: When we don’t see reality, we start living in the past or in the future. We distort reality and build up fears and doubts. We often worry about things that may never happen. Such imagined fears weaken a person. 2) Re-examine your value system and take a stand from role models. 3) Build character and build confidence. 4) Practice small acts of courage: We avoid the act of courage often for reasons of complacence and apathy than cowardice. The trouble is that many of the problems we face today may have been solved more easily with a small courageous decision taken in the past. 5) Perfect practice leads to preparation: Prepare by trying to anticipate situations, and then be ready for the totally unexpected. Practice does not make you perfect but makes permanent whatever you practice. The many dimensions of courage are Courage to dream, Courage to show grace in victory, Courage to face reality, Courage to maintain honor in defeat, Courage to teach, Courage to learn, Courage to confront, Courage to be confronted, Courage to show anger, Courage to apologize, Courage of conviction, Courage to challenge our false convictions, Courage to speak out, Courage to listen, Courage to judge, Courage to forgive, Courage to love and Courage to face rejection. A Courageous person is: Bold but not a bully. Humble but not apologetic. Confident but not conceited. Proud but not arrogant. Tender but not weak. Strong but not rude. Firm but not stubborn. Cool but not cold. In love with life but ready to die. Content but not complacent. Detached but not indifferent. Wise but not otherwise. “Heaven never helps the man who will not act.” – Sophocles
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 03:17:20 +0000