Posted under Career Management on July 31st, 2007
I’m not a big television watcher, but I was clicking around Sunday evening trying to find something, anything of interest and came upon a show called The Millionaire Inside. Three panelists, all financial masters, were sharing their ideas about wealth creation and soon a fourth panelist, a Harvard professor, joined the conversation. I thought the show was quite interesting and thought-provoking.
One of the things the panelists spoke about was courage; I’ve been thinking about it since. Courage. Courage to try something new. Courage to stand up for yourself in a good and healthy way. Courage to stretch yourself to be something more, professionally, if that is what’s important to you. Courage to say I like me the way I am, even though others want you to be something else. Courage to start a business when there’s already too many businesses doing what you’d love to do. Courage to finish a degree. Courage to recognize that an unhealthy work environment is taking its toll. Courage to ask for a day off. Courage to leave a job that you don’t like. Courage to pursue your passion. Courage to speak to your immediate supervisor about something that’s really troubling you. Courage to ask for help. And the list goes on and on and on.
Where do you get courage? Are you born with it? Is it acquired from some external force? Is it listening to motivational messages? Does it come through education and learning? Life experiences? Failures and mistakes? Or, maybe it’s a little epiphany — one day you find the courage to tell yourself, I don’t know what the future holds; I just know I don’t want this anymore. Who knows? I have no answers, for sure, only more questions. What do you think? What does courage mean to you?
posted by billie sucher
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