Your Time Courage — A Gift that Keeps on Giving

Your time courage is one of the keys to finding more productivity and satisfaction in your life. What do I mean by time courage? Well, it’s a choice. And the thing is when you make a choice that adds to your time, it both takes your courage and gives you back even more courage. You and…

Cultivate Your Courage — How to Get Started with One Timely Tip

When you cultivate your courage you give yourself a boost in most situations that you’ll encounter in your day. Indeed, making time to do that helps you take your first step on any promising new path. But why is it so important to cultivate your courage for your daily journey? Well, for starters, what if…

Your Creativity — How Your Brave Choices Break Down Barriers

Your creativity doesn’t come to fruition in a vacuum. There are lots of incremental steps involved. Courage plays an important role in the creative endeavor.  As the following quote from van Gogh attests, being creative can often involve overcoming obstacles and breaking through boundaries, both internal and external: “If you hear a voice within you…

Courageous Boundaries Help You Create Time and Space for Yourself

Courageous boundaries? Really? Yes, because sometimes it’s hard to say no. Indeed, for many people, saying no is quite difficult. Competing priorities clamor for attention and sorting that all out often means setting some courageous boundaries. Maybe your schedule and To-Do List are jam-packed, and adding one more thing will throw everything else out-of-whack.  But…

Boost Your Courage and Nourish Yourself with Love

When times get hard you can boost your courage whenever you choose. That may sound like a tall tale, but it truly isn’t. Any time you are asked, by life or by your own choices, to explore in new directions, you have to stretch. And that stretch that will both challenge and nourish you.  It…

Your Courage: Cultivate It to Make Change Possible

When you cultivate your courage you give yourself a boost, no matter what your goals may be. Even small steps sometimes require courage. But why is that? Well, for starters, even when they don’t serve you, it’s not always easy to step away from old pastimes or habits. If you’re working to change a pattern…

From Fear to Courage — Small Steps and Your Inner Lizard

Fear stifles creativity, shuts down new ideas, and just plain stops people in their tracks. When you’re in the grip of fear, courage often feels like a death-defyingly out of reach choice. Some part of you says “danger” and whatever you were contemplating looks like a risk too big to venture — a step too big…