Courage is a generous act that involves risk. It’s not courageous to hang out with friends and make a crank phone call. The risk involved might be actual risk (it took courage to go to the moon) or it might feel risky (raising your hand at a meeting to ask a useful questions probably has no real downside but it feels that way). Too often, we get hung up on how risky it feels, and fail to focus enough on how generous the work is. Generosity is a great antidote to fear.
FROM: Seth Godin’s Daily Blog
REFLECTION:
- Courage involves risk.
- Having courage and taking risks can be a generous act.
- What if you could have the courage to to take a risk – write a book, share your story, heal a broken relationship, say you are sorry to another…
- Knowing this is an act of generosity can help to shift from fear to being brave risk an action today.