courage

It doesn’t just take courage to fight in battles, it also take courage to face the everyday things in life.  How much opportunity will you pass by if you don’t have the courage to follow through on them.  Here are some ideas to help you find the everyday courage that you need.

Are your fears holding you back from living the life you deserve? Do you wish you could show more courage in your day-to-day dealings with others?

If you had more courage, maybe you could ask for that raise you’ve been waiting for, feel more confident in closing that next sale, or even invite the girl of your dreams to go out on a date! The possibilities are endless!

But what is courage, really? Courage is the ability to continue moving forward even in the face of challenge, adversity, and fear.

Without fear, there could be no bravery. So being courageous is largely about managing fear as best you can and still taking the best action available to you.

Courage Is Like A Psychological Muscle.

Being brave is similar to lifting weights. The more you participate, the easier it becomes. Alternatively, the more you’re willing to use and accept fear as an excuse not to move forward, the easier that path becomes. You get good at the things you practice regularly.

To cultivate courage:

• Start out by making a list of the things that you’re afraid to do but wish you weren’t. These can be things like asking out the cute guy in the finance department, doing karaoke, starting your own business, or leaving a bad relationship.

• Now put that list in order from least fearful to most fearful.

• Begin at the top and work your way down.

These strategies will help you develop the courage to tackle your list and move on to even bigger things:

1. Decide that you’re going to conquer your fears. The simple act of making a decision means you’ve cut yourself off from all other possibilities. So declare to yourself that you’re going to tackle your fears one at a time.
2. Accept the fact that there will be some fear. Fear can frequently be decreased, but sometimes not completely eliminated. Remember that living courageously means dealing with some level of fear but going forward anyway.
3. Develop the idea that fear isn’t a good excuse to avoid doing something. Unless you’re going to fall off a cliff, being afraid is an ineffective way of choosing your course of action.

• As mentioned above, if you get into the habit of notacting due to fear, continuing on that path only becomes easier.
• Try to start basing your decisions on what you’d like to have in your life, rather than on what you don’t want (the fear).

1. Ask yourself, “What’s the worst that can happen?” Many times your knee-jerk reaction is to feel fear in a given situation, but you might find out the worst that can happen isn’t that bad.
2. Reward yourself. After you complete one of your list items, give yourself a treat. Be proud of yourself; you certainly earned it!

1. Recognize that feelings of fear and excitement are very closely related. Is a rollercoaster exciting or scary? It’s a thin line for most people. Horror movies are a similar experience. The difference between excitement and terror can be difficult to ascertain.

• Try telling yourself you’re just really excited the next time you take action to do something on your list.

1. Use every tool at your disposal to minimize your fear and have faith in yourself. All kinds of things can help! Here are some suggestions:

• Faith
• Meditation
• Hypnosis
• Therapy
• Practicing your values and principles
• Prayer

You can live courageously. Put the above plan into action today. The key is to start small and move forward from there. Remember that being courageous is all about taking action in spite of fear, not the absence of fear. There’s no time like the present to cultivate your courage.

Don’t let life pass you by, develop the everyday courage you need to fully embrace life.

By Michael Griffin

There are lots of books about the law of attraction and law of attraction techniques: yet the law is simple and you can grasp it in minutes. Like so many good things the law may mean a profound change in the way you think and see life. Try these ideas on:

• You must only ask to receive
• Believe it before you see it
• Your thoughts are things
• What you think is shaping reality
• Everything is energy and it is attracted or repelled by you.

None of those ideas are difficult and they underpin the Law of Attraction. Perhaps you’ve heard them from various Guru’s, you may have learned them in Church, many scriptures state the law of attraction, or aspects of it, in different ways.

If you recognize that the law of attraction has everything to do with the way you think, then what do you do about all the negative thoughts that swirl around in most peoples heads. The law of attraction says see the outcome you want and yet most of us have been conditioned to look at the worst things happening so we live a life of fear. The law seeks to empower you, to show you the best things happening, to let you live your life in a state of happiness and courage. So how to deal with these negative thoughts?

This is where the whole thing pivots. What you want is possible, believe that first. Learn to see and feel the possible in your minds eye – visualize.

Learn to create feelings of well being, happiness and gratitude. And the gratitude is for not only what you already have, no matter what it is, but for the thing that is possible, that you are now being grateful that it is here.

While you are doing this, play the Pollyanna game. Go rent the Disney movie and see how Pollyanna does it. There is something good in everything just learn to find it. If this sounds crazy, that’s OK, be crazy like Pollyanna and see the good in things, in people, in events, and in your life. You will create a positive energy and momentum in your life that will return more of the same to you.

On The Abby Road Album The Beatles sang, “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” Love is the positive energy that comes along with the law of attraction.

What is the best law of attraction technique? You must only ask and receive. You will find that both simple and complex as you wrap your mind around all that it means.

The Law of Attraction is working in your life right now. The question is, is it operating randomly or by your deliberate intention? I invite you to visit http://www.TheRealMikeGriffin.com and pick up the free audio books in the sidebar.

Law of Attraction Seminar (Alan Ross)

Law of Attraction

• How To Get The Law Of Attraction To Work For You (selfimprovementbase.com)
• Consciously Creating or Conditioned Chaos (secretdesigncreationsblog.com)
• Feelings Of Achievement, Realizing Your Use Of The Law Of Attraction (yearn2blog.com)
• Using the law of attraction for positive thinking (yearn2blog.com)

I like these things in life where you meet someone or see something and you get an impression. This is going to be really stupid. And then something happens and you connect on a new and higher level.

This is law of attraction stuff.  A person with nothing to distinguish himself dreams and takes action, after awhile something develops in him – something invisible to the world … until … until the universe conspires with him or her to bring opportunity.  Then it’s courage … does she or he have the courage to catch hold of the dream?

This has been happening recently on shows like Britain’s Got Talent and America’s Got Talent. These kinds of shows are not my favorites, in fact I don’t watch them at all – happily the very best from them makes it to YouTube and the blogs and I get to enjoy some real gems like Susan Boyle and Paul Potts and get moved and get to think about what it means.

And so we come to Kevin Skinner from Mayfield Kentucky, an unemployed farmer and former “chicken catcher.” See what you think and write something in the comments.

Kevin Skinner – America’s Got Talent