“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” -Epictetus, 1st Century Greek Philosopher

Courage is daring to be… Brave. Enterprising. Bold. In your business or personal life, how often do you question your thoughts, your actions, or your motives? When you don’t exercise ability to always test yourself, you may lose not only your confidence, but more importantly, you lose ability to focus, to know yourself, your friends, and your customers.

When faced with decisions and challenges, asking yourself questions every day, every hour, every moment gives you courage to discover what is important to you and what a particular situation means to you, and what result or solution you’d like to accomplish.

Not many people experience life way they want it to be. If things don’t work out way you want, don’t find someone else to blame. Know what goals you want, then question your actions in reaching them. Compare your answers to what others may wish for you. After all, having a successful business or a life of contentment, requires you to know yourself and goals that are best for you.

Courage is getting in habit of looking inward and going with your highest feeling of what’s true and what feels right for you. Apply this inner evaluation in your business and in your personal life. This is important if you wish to grow and stay successful. It works!

Have courage to be curious (not nosy!). A quest for knowledge about life and people you interact with is good. Look for answers to whatever you plan to do. This keeps you thoughtful. Keep a journal if it helps. Over time, you can look back and discover results of your actions (or reactions) to certain problems. Then when faced with future or similar problems, you’ll have a ready solution.

Whether you realise it or not, you use these to achieve anything and everything, and any lack of success can be traced to a lack of one or more of them.

They all begin with letter ‘A’, blimey, just imagine if I went through whole alphabet!

1.Attitude.

This includes taking responsibility for your life, for your actions and consequences. It includes having faith to push yourself beyond your comfort zone time and time again.

You need to have belief that you *expect* to succeed, and belief that you are fully worthy of getting anything you want.

If your attitude is correct, then you will have no trouble with second magic word:

2.Action.

Without action, all dreams in your head, all your ambitions, will stay exactly where they are, in your head.

Without action, you will forever be saying ‘one day’, and ‘when time is right’. Take first step, whatever it may be, take it.