“What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
Vincent van Gogh
Most of our decisions (and the decisions of people around us) are made from a place of fear. Fear of failing. Fear of succeeding (and losing everything to do it / or fear of succeeding and still not being satisfied.) Fear of looking like an idiot. Fear of wasting our time / life / money / etc.
The problem is we often don’t realize we are making fearful decisions in the moment. No, we just avoid it. We avoid being uncomfortable. We avoid starting (because of x y or z reason) and never have the chance to potentially fail or succeed. We avoid wasting our time by doing nothing—aka wasting our time.
But if you replace the word fear with courage, the entire story changes—
We have the courage to fail—and let that failure become a stepping stone, a lesson, a story for our next act of courage.
We have the courage to succeed—because we put in the hard work, helped and improved others’ lives, and enjoyed the process.
We have the courage to look like an idiot—because embarrassing ourselves is a part of challenging yourself to be more, to be original, to stand out, and to do what others won’t.
Have the courage to look like an idiot.
We have the courage to spend our time/money wisely on the things we care about, and not dwell too harshly on our past selves decisions/time we can no longer get back.
We have the courage to say yes to what’s important to us and no to everything else.
Because at the end of the day, doing nothing gets us nothing, fear gets us more fear, negativity attracts more negativity. It is only through trying can we hope to achieve.
STAY BOLD, Keep Pursuing,
— Josh Waggoner | Daily Blog #1101
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