Weekday Wisdom Episode 73 An Interview with Emily Ann Peterson, Part 5 Did you know you can build your bravery and courage over time? That’s part of what Emily Ann Peterson and Carma Spence discuss in this episode of the Weekday Wisdom. In this final episode in the series with […]
Weekday Wisdom Episode 72 An Interview with Emily Ann Peterson, Part 4 In this episode, Carma and Emily Ann chat about why bravery is important. In fact there are three main reasons! In Tuesday’s video, Emily Ann Peterson, author of Bare Naked Bravery, shared the three types of bravery. Today […]
Weekday Wisdom Episode 71 An Interview with Emily Ann Peterson, Part 3 Have you ever had to make a decision without all the information? How do you fill in the blanks? You “read shadows.” In today’s episode, Emily and I chat about what “reading shadows” means and how it fits […]
Weekday Wisdom Episode 70 An Interview with Emily Ann Peterson, Part 2 Did you know that there are three kinds of bravery? Learn what they are in today’s episode of the Weekday Wisdom. In today’s episode, I chat with Emily Ann Peterson, author of Bare Naked Bravery about the three […]
Weekday Wisdom Episode 69 An interview with Emily Ann Peterson, Author of Bare Naked Bravery How you define courage affects whether you believe you are brave or not. Check out today’s episode and discover that you are more than likely braver than you thought. What is courage anyway? You may […]
Watch the video above … or read the text below: Your choice. Sometimes Owning Your Awesome is an internal journey. It is doing something brave. And what’s interesting is that sometimes we are brave without realizing it. There have been a couple of times in my life that I’ve done […]
When you think of courage, you probably think of fierce warriors or men dressed in battle uniform. Perhaps you envision a woman battling disease or someone fighting a good fight on behalf of another. However, bravery comes in many different shapes and forms. Sometimes fearlessness is getting knocked down, but […]
Today’s Power Thought is not inspired by a quote, per se … but an answer to a question that was posed during a 30-day Bravery Challenge I’m participating in this month from my friend Cindy Ashton. Last Friday, she asked us to define what courage meant to us. This was my response:
“My definition of courage: feeling the fear and doing it anyway. Without fear, there is no courage. Brushing your teeth doesn’t take courage … unless you are afraid of toothbrushes or toothpaste. It is just something you do. But, if you are afraid of heights, going zip lining is a courageous act. Sometimes fear is a warning that what you are about to do could be dangerous. Sometimes it is merely a warning that you are about to step out of your status quo. When you feel fear gauge which one it is and act accordingly.”
I’ve talked about how fear stops us from stepping into our power and owning our awesome before. And no matter how much we believe that fear is actually “false evidence appearing real” … it still gets the better of us at times.
And that’s OK. Fear is going to be there, whether you like it or not. Courage is not the absence of fear. It is facing fear and meeting it face on. It is looking fear in the face and shouting, “You don’t own me!”
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