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Courage: Master The Fear |
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Kenrick Cleveland |
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Courage: Master The Fear
Kenrick Cleveland
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear."--Mark Twain
I found an interesting thing when I looked up courage in the dictionary. .. 'the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc. without fear or bravery.'
I hesitated when I read this. I don't think it's accurate. To me, courage and bravery are both examples of doing that which needs to be done in spite of fear, doing things even though we are afraid and charging forth regardless of our inner state.
Genuinely courageous and brave people don't lack fear. They are acting in spite of the fear. I define courage and bravery as doing what needs to be done in spite of fear. If it didn't have the element of fear, why would we need the courage to do it?
Stop for a minute and think of a time when you should have taken some action but you didn't. And I want you to remember why you didn't act. Think about this. Why didn't you act?
I want you to think of another time when you needed to act and you did not act. Or you didn't act as fully as you should have. And I want you to remember why you didn't.
Now consider the similarities between these two events. You are going to find upon consideration that there is one common denominator, at least one, and maybe more, and that commonality is that there was probably some kind of fear associated with the incident.
So here's the question: What would have happened had you acted anyway? Go back to those two events that we just thought through. And ask yourself what would have happened had you acted anyway. Would it have worked out? What's the worst that would have happened had things not gone the way you hoped?
Think back to the first event and how you chose not to act or not to act as fully as you could have.
Might you have had success? What's the absolute worst thing that would have happened had things not gone the way you hoped for? How bad could it have been? Would you have been thrown out? Would you have been cursed at? Would you have been told no?
Could you have lived with that outcome, that worst case scenario? I'd wager money that, yes, you could have lived with it.
Oscar Wilde once said, "One's real life is often the life that one does not lead." What is the real life that you're not living because of a lack of courage? Conversely, in what ways have you acted despite your fear that have changed your life for the better?
Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the business of wealthy prospects using http://www.maxpersuasion.com/ persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in http://www.maxpersuasion.com/ persuasion techniques.
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