Fear vs. Courage

The thing that slows momentum and can bring it to a screeching halt is fear. I have been keenly aware of this. I don't know of a leader of significant stature who does not have large amount of fear that she/he deals with.

To me, courage is not the person acting without fear, it is the person acting in spite of fear. It may even be true that the only reason a leader stands out is because of this factor. Many people choose to not embrace the fear and go beyond and that is why there is a separation of masses and classes. The masses will always take the path of least Resistance.

I came upon a huge breakthrough with this very concept yesterday. I was pondering what can I do to take my business to the next level. I had just seen the results of a failed attempt and was discouraged. I have began the habit of taking the energy of discouragement and using it to drive action. This was not the case I was all up in my head, that was skewed by the emotions of failing. . .

As I was laying there on my bed after asking for inspiration, I got to thinking about how me me me focused I was being. I gained the awareness of two things:
1) Stop focusing on yourself, if you are not serving and helping others you are not growing and your business is rotting.
2) Don't expect things to change if your body lies here on the bed in a prostrate position. If you get up and get into activity then you will be able to sort things out.

I want to focus on the second one as a proven psychological principle. I am using an example first. Let say you have an anger issue. Did you know that if you were to view yourself in the mirror when you are angry the posturing and intensity of your gestures would feed the physiological and emotional state of anger. If you were able to relax the body language alone you would remove half of the anger from the situation.

Now taking this very situation back to me lying in bed. What does defeat look like. Well in battle someone lying down nursing injuries. What does victory or productive work look like. There is such a hidden nugget in this. So many times I have pondered in a defeated position, instead in a humble position embracing it and then gaining strength, getting off knees and thinking things out on paper as a military leader would and charging forward with execution.

Try next time you feel things have lost some hope, look at your body language, change it up regroup in the manner you do best and model what you would envision as body language of someone who is overcoming the loss. This is huge I promise. You can't expect things to happen unless you put yourself in motion and allow the miracle to work with you.

Joshua Andrus
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