Techniques to “Start Being” Courageous

Want to be happier and more successful? First, it starts with being courageous. I am not talking about jumping from high buildings like Superman. I am talking about making smart choices and supporting yourself with self-management techniques and good friends.

Here are some discussion points and action items you can do alone or with friends:

Start Being:

• Start saying: “I declare my intention to be courageous,” then you will exhibit your personal courage.
• Start being one hundred percent accountable for how you design your life.
• Start perceiving yourself as courageous.
• Start changing the way you organize your time.
• Start something that supports you to look deeply at your obstacles, patterns and scripts.
• Start reflecting on the times you found courage inside yourself (that you didn’t know you had).
• Start adding some stress management practices.
• Start acquiring wisdom (cease ignorance to courage).
• Start confessing your downside, shortcomings, mishaps or missteps.
• Start attacking the roots of your personal limitations.
• Start making critical decisions that perpetuate change.
• Start directing the patterns that govern your beliefs.
• Start eliminating the stories that shape and limit your perceptions.
• Start inviting self-observation (to seek a new level of courage consciousness).
• Start invoking your own courage imagery.
• Start bringing forth your true essence.
• Start focusing on your potential.
• Start monitoring the “courage signals” that move you up the leadership ladder (these represent your courage quotient).
• Start aligning your personality with courage.
• Start watching for what holds you back.
• Start developing a new and refined image that depicts courage.
• Start finding inner essence by eliminating hypocrisy.
• Start surrounding yourself with people that support you to slow down and change.
• Start moving more quickly from StuckThinking™.
• Start daily introspection to stimulate self-analysis.
• Start being the maker of your destiny (open to intuition).
• Start detaching from results (expectations).
• Start letting go of missteps (and start being a participant in life).
• Start to identify the major turning points in your career.
• Start defining your ideology.
• Start practicing “where courage meets grace.”
• Start being more approachable (make people more at ease).
• Start a habit that calms (centers) you.
• Start noticing how frequently you live in joy.
• Start taking charge of your career fate.
• Start discovering what provides you with equanimity (slowing is not synonymous with nonproductive). In other words, what is your stillness choice?
• Start standing in your courage in spite of the circumstances.
• Start reading an autobiography of a courageous woman.
• Start practicing courageous will with intent so you can upgrade your learning.
• Start finding your spiritual truth.
• Start being harmonious with your life and environment.