What Does It Take To Be Courageous?

Courage for me is an interesting concept. When I think about courage, I immediately think about the heroes in films.

Or Courage, the Cowardly Dog.

But either way I am thinking of someone who, for lack of better words, is a total badass. However as I’ve learned and grew over the years, I’ve realized courage is a lot more than just facing your own fears.

To be courageous doesn’t mean you have to be in a war or fight people. Of course, those are seen as brave things to do. However every day people can be brave in their own sense.

What I’m getting at is I believe courage can be born from two ways. There is the physical side, and there is the mental side. I believe a lot of people can be courageous thanks to this mental side. Those are the fears that we can’t physically see. Not to mention they are often overlooked.

We’re accustomed to seeing acts of bravery as fighting against super villains, tyrants, bullies, or fighting in epic battles to the death.

And I don’t blame you. Those take a lot of courage to be involved in.

But this mental side, or our mental fears, are legit problems and they can take courage to face. So many of us struggle to deal with it due to a variety of reasons. It’s why, I believe, people get anxious or experience doubt, or can’t come to face with failure or the potential of risk.

What I’m getting at is that what goes on our head can make us courageous when we have the right tools, the proper way of thinking and the confidence to move forward with it.

In the end, our mental fear isn’t something we can’t physically see. It’s not spiders, or dogs, snakes, tigers, lions, or bears (oh my!). It’s the stuff that goes on inside of our head.

Perhaps our past made us think it’s foolish to start a business. We’re reluctant ourselves because we’ve seen others try and fail and we don’t want that to happen to us.

In the end, this mental fear is a way to preserve us. To keep us comfortable as opposed to courageous. By all means there is nothing wrong with being comfortable, but I believe in order for us to grow and become better, we need to be courageous. To step out of our own comfort zones.

Here’s a detailed strategy to do just that.

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