Building Your Courage And Overcoming Your Fears

Building Your Courage

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. Courage has to be developed and strengthened by doing the very things you fear to do, by embracing challenges, not running from them. Courage builds when you cultivate the habit of refusing to let fear dictate your actions. Growth occurs when you decide to try something new that takes you out of your comfort zone and expands your sense of possibility.

courage is the willingness to stretch yourself and move out of your comfort zone. It takes tremendous courage to move yourself into a state of discomfort. Moving out of your comfort zone can mean feeling awkward, clumsy, overwhelmed and embarrassed. Sometimes it feels easier to stay as you are than to risk the pain of discomfort. However to grow and develop yourself, it is an absolutely essential characteristic. You need to be willing to move yourself onwards and upwards towards your goals and ambitions. You need to be willing to face your discomfort and work through it.

Some of the most exhilarating times in my life have come when I have tried to do things that I feared to do. This isn't to say that I recklessly threw myself into situations like parachuting from airplanes, or climbing the highest mountains when I wasn't prepared—I choose my challenges carefully. Challenging fears in one area of life builds confidence in other areas of life and helps you move beyond a limited sense of self. If you have big dreams—consider repelling or firewalking to help build your courage so that you can achieve your goals. These activities are not merely physical challenges, but metaphors for the issues that we must overcome in our personal and professional lives. Meeting these challenges create peak experiences that you can draw upon to overcome future obstacles.

Overcoming Your Fears

Fears are the greatest enemy of our individual potential. They keep us in place in our lives and stop us from being everything we could be.
Everyone knows how it feels to be afraid. To be afraid is a normal, human characteristic. In fact, the more you develop your intelligence, the more things you have to fear.
As young children, we don't have all the fears we have as adults. This is because our understanding is limited and our perception doesn?t really extend very far. Children have simple fears, such as the 'fear of monsters' or 'fear of the dark'. As we grow into adults, we lose these simple fears and we develop more complex fears, such as a 'fear of commitment' or 'fear of confrontation'.

The emotion of fear is caused by thinking about what you don't want to happen. In every situation, there is the potential for success and for failure. You will only start to experience fear whenever you think MORE about the bad potential result than the good.
Often this type of negative-focus thinking becomes a habit, and eventually a constant state of worry. Worriers live with a barrage of negative 'what ifs' just below the surface. If you are a worrier by nature, it is generally because you are always thinking of the possible negative outcomes and dwelling on them continually.
To overcome our fears and build our self-confidence requires one essential ingredient: courage!

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