Claim Your Courage Today

If courage has eluded you in the past, now is the time to step up and make your daily job performance a profile in courage that reveals your heart and spirit, such as confronting issues when your job is at stake, being vulnerable to admit a mistake and reinventing yourself to transcend an old career and begin a new one. When you follow a decisive course of action and do what it takes to advance professionally, you become a catalyst for profound change and an initiator who can lead others to the same path. When you demonstrate such courageous leadership capabilities, professional success follows.

Enhance your courage quotient with this exercise
1. Recall a moment in your work life when you were proud of yourself. Maybe you finally confronted the supervisor who berated you in front of others. Perhaps you committed to learn a new skill. Strive to relive that experience and zero in on the specific behavior you employed that made the difference. This was your courage at work!

2. Next, think of a recent time when you failed to display courage or tap into its energy (“virtue in Latin means “energy”). This was a missed opportunity that can never be reclaimed—and you don’t want that to happen again. Ask yourself how the outcome may have been different if you had acted more courageously.

3. Finally, write down your commitment to claim your courage and display it in a prominent place. Continually track yourself by noticing how your actions reveal your heart and how you’ve applied courage actions.

I would love for you to share your courage comments by posting them below. Happy New Year! Courageously yours,

Sandra Ford Walston is known as The Courage Expert and innovator of StuckThinking™. She is an organizational effectiveness consultant, speaker, internationally published author of bestseller COURAGE, trainer and courage coach. She is certified in the Enneagram and MBTI®. Please visit www.walstoncourage.com.