Tag: courage

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Can you be courageous without being vulnerable?

Can you be courageous without being vulnerable? For the longest time, I too believed that courage meant that you felt no fear. I also believed that expressing your emotions and what makes you feel anxious or scared, was a sign of weakness. Tough girls don’t show emotion, or perhaps don’t even have emotion to show.  Because I have big emotions, big reactions to things that others barely bat an eyelid to, there is something weak and flawed about me. But here’s the truth – can you even be courageous without first feeling scared, exposed, anxious? Put the other way, if you feel no fear, uncertainty, or social exposure, does it take courage?

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Some days you can’t do it all. So just do a little. – podcast

We all go through periods where it is hard to do it all; where simply doing 10% of what we’re used to doing feels like an enormous, perhaps even impossible task. In this episode, I talk about how it is ok to NOT do it all. In fact, by simply allowing yourself to only do a little, you are actually doing yourself a huge kindness. I also introduce the amazing lesson that motivation does not lead to action… Quite the opposite.

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