If you refuse to quit, you must ultimately succeed. Just as in baseball, you won’t ultimately hit a home run unless you keep on swinging. No one was ever defeated until they accepted defeat as a reality. No one can ever defeat you but yourself.
There are several forms of courage that we can develop with practice. These forms of courage will help us to achieve the great success that is possible for us. They are all learnable with practice.
Dream Big
To become success in life we need the courage to dream big dreams and to set big goals. This is where most people are stopped. The very idea of setting big, challenging, exciting, worthwhile goals is so overwhelming that they quit before they even begin. But we need to do something different.So Sit down, write out your goals as if anything were possible for you, and never be afraid to dream big dreams.
Make A Commitment
Next is the courage to make a total commitment, throwing our self wholeheartedly into whatever it is we decide to do. All successful people are people who are living fully engaged.They are fully involved in their lives and in their goals. They don’t do things by half measures. They may have no guarantees, but they are not afraid to put their whole hearts into their activities. If they fail, they fail by trying greatly, not by playing it safe, wishing and hoping that everything will work out all right.
Move Out Of Your Comfort Zone
We need the courage to move out of our comfort zone. It is the courage to move into our zone of discomfort, where we feel awkward, clumsy, and alone. The comfort zone is one of the greatest enemies of human potential. When people get into a comfort zone, they strive to stay in that comfort zone. We need the courage to continually move ourselves in the direction of our biggest goals and ambitions. We need to be willing to face discomfort in order for us to grow.
Have Faith
Someone once wrote, “If every obstacle must first be overcome, nothing will ever get done.”
Courageous people are those who have a dream and set a goal, make a plan and take the first step, with no assurances and no guarantees that their efforts will result in success. However, if we look upon every step forward as a learning experience and every setback as a valuable lesson that has been sent to us to make us stronger and better, we will not be afraid to launch in faith into the unknown.
Risk Failure
We also need the courage to endure constant setbacks, disappointments, and temporary defeats. We need to learn to deal with failure by realizing that it is an indispensable prerequisite for success. We need the courage to treat failure as an opportunity to more intelligently begin again. We need to overcome the fear of failure by doing the things we fear over and over again, and then by resolving to bounce rather than break when things don’t work out for us.
Overcome Fears
We need to Identify all the fear situations in our life that cause us stress or anxiety today. Decide what the worst possible outcome of each of these situations might be. Resolve to accept the worst, should it occur. And then take action to resolve each of those situations. Refuse to allow a fear situation to remain in your life, dominating your thinking and emotions and holding you back.
Learn From Mistakes
All peak performers continually make decisions, make mistakes, learn from them, self-correct, and carry on. Successful people are not those who necessarily make the right decisions all the time, but they make their decisions right. If they make a mistake, they accept it, learn as much as possible from it, failing and making mistakes. The more you fail and the more mistakes you make, the smarter you become and the more likely it is that you will eventually achieve your goals.
Accept Complete Responsibility
Accept complete responsibility for your life, which means to take ownership for results. Don't make excuses or to defend yourself. We need the courage to say, over and over again, “I am responsible!”
When something goes wrong, we have to focus on the solution rather than the problem. We should ask, “What do we do from here? What’s the next step? What is the solution?”
Then pick our self up and carry on, extracting the wheat from the situation and throwing away the chaff.
Persist Longer
Persistence is the quality that will ultimately guarantee our success. Our willingness to persist in the face of every adversity can be our greatest asset. It can be the one factor that guarantees our success.
There are several forms of courage that we can develop with practice. These forms of courage will help us to achieve the great success that is possible for us. They are all learnable with practice.
Dream Big
To become success in life we need the courage to dream big dreams and to set big goals. This is where most people are stopped. The very idea of setting big, challenging, exciting, worthwhile goals is so overwhelming that they quit before they even begin. But we need to do something different.So Sit down, write out your goals as if anything were possible for you, and never be afraid to dream big dreams.
Make A Commitment
Next is the courage to make a total commitment, throwing our self wholeheartedly into whatever it is we decide to do. All successful people are people who are living fully engaged.They are fully involved in their lives and in their goals. They don’t do things by half measures. They may have no guarantees, but they are not afraid to put their whole hearts into their activities. If they fail, they fail by trying greatly, not by playing it safe, wishing and hoping that everything will work out all right.
Move Out Of Your Comfort Zone
We need the courage to move out of our comfort zone. It is the courage to move into our zone of discomfort, where we feel awkward, clumsy, and alone. The comfort zone is one of the greatest enemies of human potential. When people get into a comfort zone, they strive to stay in that comfort zone. We need the courage to continually move ourselves in the direction of our biggest goals and ambitions. We need to be willing to face discomfort in order for us to grow.
Have Faith
Someone once wrote, “If every obstacle must first be overcome, nothing will ever get done.”
Courageous people are those who have a dream and set a goal, make a plan and take the first step, with no assurances and no guarantees that their efforts will result in success. However, if we look upon every step forward as a learning experience and every setback as a valuable lesson that has been sent to us to make us stronger and better, we will not be afraid to launch in faith into the unknown.
Risk Failure
We also need the courage to endure constant setbacks, disappointments, and temporary defeats. We need to learn to deal with failure by realizing that it is an indispensable prerequisite for success. We need the courage to treat failure as an opportunity to more intelligently begin again. We need to overcome the fear of failure by doing the things we fear over and over again, and then by resolving to bounce rather than break when things don’t work out for us.
Overcome Fears
We need to Identify all the fear situations in our life that cause us stress or anxiety today. Decide what the worst possible outcome of each of these situations might be. Resolve to accept the worst, should it occur. And then take action to resolve each of those situations. Refuse to allow a fear situation to remain in your life, dominating your thinking and emotions and holding you back.
Learn From Mistakes
All peak performers continually make decisions, make mistakes, learn from them, self-correct, and carry on. Successful people are not those who necessarily make the right decisions all the time, but they make their decisions right. If they make a mistake, they accept it, learn as much as possible from it, failing and making mistakes. The more you fail and the more mistakes you make, the smarter you become and the more likely it is that you will eventually achieve your goals.
Accept Complete Responsibility
Accept complete responsibility for your life, which means to take ownership for results. Don't make excuses or to defend yourself. We need the courage to say, over and over again, “I am responsible!”
When something goes wrong, we have to focus on the solution rather than the problem. We should ask, “What do we do from here? What’s the next step? What is the solution?”
Then pick our self up and carry on, extracting the wheat from the situation and throwing away the chaff.
Persist Longer
Persistence is the quality that will ultimately guarantee our success. Our willingness to persist in the face of every adversity can be our greatest asset. It can be the one factor that guarantees our success.
