Courage: Are You Encouraging Or Discouraging?

Vincent • September 18, 2017

People who are committed to making a difference (“Differentiators”) are Courageous.

Take the word COURAGE. What does it bring to mind? Ponder it for a moment…

In our society these days, it’s important to ENcourage one another, and not DIScourage. As we all do our best, ENcouraging (fostering and promoting courage) is imperative versus focusing on breaking people down, and mitigating their courage.

The military defines courage as the mental quality that recognizes fear or criticisms but enables a man to proceed in the face of it with calmness and firmness.

According to Robert Kiyosaki, success means being willing to learn to do things that make you uncomfortable or that you dislike doing. The things you avoid doing will cause you to be less effective in your business.

Everyone has fear, but powerful leaders learn to overcome it, learn to act with it, confronting those things they avoid and do not want to deal with. In fact, sometimes the courageous thing is to give up. It might mean facing the truth about something.

Now take a few minutes and consider:

– What things do you avoid in your work due to fear?

–  Think about things in your life that might take courage to let go of.

– What in your life do you must do, that you need courage to do?

–  What is it that you need to do that you’ve been avoiding?

 

Journal on these points now, and confront your realities relative to how you’re stepping up now, and how you’re planning to step up in 2017.

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By Chris Steely • August 25, 2018
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By Chris Steely • August 25, 2018
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What It Takes To Be Great

By Vincent • September 22, 2017
What makes Tiger Woods great? What made Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett the world’s premier investor? We think we know: Each was a natural who came into the world with a gift for doing exactly what he ended up doing. As Buffett told Fortune not long ago, he was “wired at birth to allocate capital.” It’s a one-in-a-million thing. […]The post What It Takes To Be Great appeared first on Chris Steely.

Military Principles Applied To Business Success

By Vincent • September 21, 2017
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Gladiator Champion

By Vincent • September 19, 2017
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Mortality

By Vincent • September 19, 2017
Today we celebrated the life, and mourned the passing, of my employer and mentor, Chet Holmes. The funeral service at the Catholic Church of Santa Monica was a reunion of sorts, and many people that loved Chet gathered to pay their respects. One of the great things about communities like this gathering, sharing, caring, and […]The post Mortality appeared first on Chris Steely.

Doing What It Takes To Overcome Gravity

By Vincent • September 19, 2017
What ever happened to achievement; the good old fashioned American work ethic? The attitude that made this wonderful country what it is today… the inspiration fostered by our forefathers, as they put their lives on the line for what they believed in… It’s almost like the gravity of mediocrity has become so intense, that it’s […]The post Doing What It Takes To Overcome Gravity appeared first on Chris Steely.

What Are You Doing Here?

By Vincent • September 19, 2017
Here’s another short from my book “GPS To Success:” So many people exist in their own personal status quo. They become engulfed and washed away in the flow, maintain their obliviousness, lose sight of how it could be better, and end up not wanting to make it better. They succumb to their “comfort,” which fosters […]The post What Are You Doing Here? appeared first on Chris Steely.
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