Attitude Awareness Month - Day 19 - An Attitude of Courage

We'd love to engage you with the attitude of courage. You know, courage is a very interesting thing. Courage is hard to find, especially in these times. When being courageous, you can have a severe backlash come against you. And I would love to get your thoughts on how you're doing. Do you feel you're courageous? Do you feel you're not courageous? Are you not living the life you want or pursuing the things you want because you feel like you do have, quote, unquote, a lack of courage? I see that we got some people on here. You could just let me know that you can hear me. I'd appreciate it. Just type something in the comments. I'm pretty sure that we're good. But if you're looking to find courage, if you're looking to analyze courage or to figure out what courage is, you are in the right place. The definition of courage is very simply this. It's the ability to do something that frightens a person. And so what I want to know is, are you able to do things that frighten you? And I'm going to talk to you about the six different types of courage that we face and that we must improve on. And so courage is also defined as the strength. It's defined as strength in the face of pain or grief. Certainly we've talked about loss during Attitude Awareness Month. We've talked about the grieving process and how grief and loneliness can really affect our courage and our ability to move forward. So these are the things that we need to be thinking about, right? It's, do I have the courage to do something that I'm afraid of? When we look at courage is. It's, you know, it's something that everybody wants to have. It's something that people say, hey, I am courageous. Yet, you know, courage is not just physical bravery in general. There are six types of courage, and I want to just walk through those very quickly. Hope you got your pens and papers to take a little note. This has been quite in April for Attitude Awareness Month. Obviously, physical courage is what we all think about feeling fear, yet choosing to act. This involves what some people call bravery. It's the risk of bodily harm or death or developing physical strength, resilience or awareness. Like physical courage is about, do I run a marathon? Well, do I jump out of a plane? That actually involves several different phases of courage. And. But I think we understand, if I have. If I see somebody getting beaten, if I see an old lady getting mugged, am I going to jump in and possess that physical courage that it takes to alter the Situation. Emotional courage basically is what is tied to our heart, opens us up to feeling the full spectrum of our emotions, pleasant or unpleasant, without fear of attachment. So, you know, emotional courage is simply saying, look at, I need help, I have failed and I need a hand up. And sometimes people don't have that emotional courage to ask for help. The third courage is intellectual courage, which is about expanding our horizons, not being addicted to our attitude, saying, well, that's just me. It's letting go of what's familiar to you. It's about our willingness to learn, to unlearn or relearn, right, with an open and flexible mind. Some of us do not have a lot of intellectual courage because you know what, we feel like we know it all. Number four, social courage. Boy, this is really what's happening. It's to be ourself in the face of adversity. It involves the risk of social embarrassment or exclusion, unpopularity or rejection. It also involves, quite frankly, leadership. When I think of social courage, we look at all the social justice and social injustice calls of our time, whether it be race, whether it be sexuality. But these social courage moments come up and now is the time, the time more than ever for us to stand up and do what is right. For us to stand up and try to help those that may not be like us to become more mainstream or like us. Social courage, very, very tough. And certainly, I think the topic of the day, there's certainly moral courage, which is basically just standing up for what is right, which is kind of dealing with what we have socially as well. And it involves doing the right thing, even if it's comfortable or unpopular. You know, I think about religion a lot when I think about moral courage. You know, are you a person that, let's just say, follows Jesus Christ, but it's, it's tough for you to follow in his ways? Are you embarrassed of your religion? Right. I mean, I'm Catholic. There's a lot of people that feel embarrassed about being Catholic or Muslim or, or whatever it may be. But moral courage, I think most of all really comes into day to day living, right? Are you living your morals? Are you helping the homeless? Are you taking time to talk, you know, to a guy on the street that maybe has nothing? Are you willing to buy lunch for somebody who looks hungry? Are you willing to feed the, feed the hungry, clothe the people that have no clothes? I think you go at moral courage is. And lastly is really spiritual courage, which I just kind of touched on, and that's facing the pain with dignity or faith. We just, we always do a lot of fasting at the time of Easter. And you know, Jesus taught us that as you fast or as you sacrifice during the Lenten season, it's important that you don't wear it on your sleeve. And sometimes the lesson of fasting is to simply not tell people what you're doing. So six different types of courages. I think it's all, all those six things are things that we should think about, that we should, I would say, rate ourselves on how well are we doing. But hopefully during Attitude awareness Month, it's something that you say, you know what, I'm going to take each one of these six and I'm going to improve or I'm going to bust. The courage challenge that is involved us, whether it's physical, emotional, intellectual, social, mor or spiritual. How to create courage is I think, understanding. Are you living in your circumstance or your vision? Right? People that live in their circumstance are living not past the point of their nose. They're not living past today. They're not, they're bitching and complaining. They are focusing on what their circumstances, understanding that if we live in our vision, right, if we live in our vision, we have the courage, especially our vision for tomorrow. If we live live in our vision for tomorrow, we will find the courage to do what needs to be done today. And that really comes down to framing, right? Like how are you framing your day? How are you framing your life? I think that those people that live in a vision frame their day as simply a tool to execute on their further vision. So what I'm going to tell you what I, what I just advise is to stay positive is to live in your vision, not your circumstance. Live more than there is today. Start now to change things, try new things. Right? Attitude booster is try something new today. I always like to say, look on the other side. What is the worst case scenario? Ask yourself this question. What don't I want to happen when it comes to my physical health? What don't I want to happen when it comes to my professional viability? What don't I want to happen in my personal relationships? And when you focus on what you don't want to happen, what actually occurs is you end up generating a plan indirectly of what you do want to happen and how you can gain the courage to make it happen. I don't want you to stress about being afraid. I don't want you to stress about taking massive action. You are a resilient person. You know, God made us all very resilient. I know you've been through a lot. I know I've been through a lot. And no matter what is facing you today, when it comes to courage, I'm sure it's not going to kill you. I always like to ask myself, will this kill me if I do this? Lastly, I think the quality of our life is determined by the quality of questions we ask about our life. And I hope that you're asking yourself new questions. I hope that you're opening yourself up to new conversations during Attitude Month, meeting new people with different perspectives and seeking those percept perspectives and hoping to understand. I want to thank you for your day. I hope this helps you question your courage and I hope this help you build your courage. This is Glenn Bill reminding you that you cannot win in life, you cannot win in business, and you cannot win in relationships unless you win in your mind first. Check us out at the University of Attitude. Thanks. 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