Be Brave: The Little Book of Courage

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Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.

It is worth noting—in addition—that courage tends to beget courage. When you act with bravery and regularly stand up for others, for your values or for yourself, you develop your comfort and competence for the next time, and the next. The Finnish concept of sisu applies here. Studies at Aalto University found the deeply-held cultural construct suggests we can surpass perceived limitations and access storehouses of inner strength. These can get us started on a long journey or keep us going, demonstrating determination. It is the idea of ‘embodied fortitude’—the demonstration of grit. Types of Courage Perfectionism can cause you to be so harsh on yourself that you view things that are really accomplishments as “failures” because they don't live up to your unreasonable standards. For example, a perfectionist might consider earning a B in history a “failure” because it isn't a perfect grade. A student who is fair to themselves could view it as a success, because they worked as hard as they could in the class. Focusing on your process, rather than its outcomes, can help you beat perfectionism. Not only does this lead you to focus on destructive thoughts which are going to make you feel less able to succeed, but it also keeps you from taking action by making you afraid, more afraid than you were at the beginning. If you make it a habit of avoiding stressful situations, you’re going to become less and less courageous. My solution was to stamp out my victim mentality and take personal responsibility for everything in my life. I wrote about my journey here.

How to be courageous: 9 ways to become fearless

And the only way to live your life to the fullest is to be brave and explore what is possible for yourself.

For all these reasons, make sure you sleep enough (something between 7 and 9 hours every night). 8. Think of the satisfaction you’ll get from taking the leap: It might not always feel easy to stand by your values—and that’s when you’ll need to summon all of your courage to stand in your truth and honor your values, even when you’re faced by temptation or opposition from others. 2. Learn to Embrace Fear When you let fear run the show in your professional life, it will always keep you from making decisions that drive you forward. Emotional growth Are you ready to become a brand new version of yourself? Here are 16 practical steps that will show you how to be brave. And when they meet a dominant man who has the potential to satisfy their submission fantasies, it makes them desire him intensely.Develop mental resilience. Bravery requires you to be “tough” when you encounter scary or difficult situations. Mental resilience is more than just a tough front, though. To be truly resilient, you need to practice the following: [8] X Research source

And you’ll need less and less bravery to act in those situations, just like how the weights you used in your first workouts will seem quite light after a few weeks of training.When you know why you’re fighting—and you can embrace this cause—you fight better and more valiantly. Catastrophizing is another distortion that can cause fear responses. When you catastrophize, you blow an event or experience out of proportion until it spirals out of control. For example: “My boss didn't look at me when I passed her in the hall. She's probably mad at me. I've probably done something wrong. She might fire me. I'll lose my house.” This obviously is a worst-case scenario that's extremely unlikely to happen. When you’re tired, you have less motivation, you feel more lazy, and you come up with more excuses to not make a move.