Equating Courage with Your Life

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself. -- Galileo

Learning advances when there’s a shift in scripts. The scripts I am referring to are the mind patterns you bring to work. Scripts reveal a set of beliefs that you hold about yourself, how the world works (worldview) and versions of them when under stress. They are “a part of normal living: the background static of perpetual discontent.”

The scripts your boss (mate) display sets an example and creates the “mood-receptivity” (not moody) for learning and achieving goals. This backdrop is felt subliminally by employees (family). Letting go of the handily stored spoken and unspoken scripts requires courage — the missing virtue in the workplace (and at home). The courage to confront those inner leadership beliefs sanctions a different thinking pattern. If you and your boss (family) are to win and fulfill the company’s strategy, then exploring how to observe and then change scripts calls for reserves of courage (and probably a dose of vulnerability). Embracing the original definition of the word courage, meaning “heart and spirit” offers an opportunity to actively participate in this outcome. What do you equate courage with? Join me next week to learn how courage has different meanings depending upon the person.

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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.sandrawalston.com.