My experience has been that courage doesn’t render anxiety, nervousness or fear null and void.<\/p>\n
My apologies, I don’t know the true origin, but Nelson Mandela (and a few others) are credited with saying, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”<\/p>\n
Courage is simply honoring the decision to walk despite the internal or external trembling\/shaking.<\/p>\n
Courage is repeatedly rising up despite the tripping\/falling down regardless of the number of times…just, regardless.<\/p>\n
More and more, it seems our circles (family, school, religious, work, affiliates\/organizations etc) ask that we conform to what has been decided is “acceptable”.<\/p>\n
I’m practicing and encouraging my children to practice living by this phrase:<\/p>\n
“Courage over conformity”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n So, I ask the same of you my fellow human\/traveler\/warrior – choose courage.<\/p>\n If something keeps coming to your heart…even if it’s different, even if it’s something you haven’t seen around you, even if it’s unfamiliar…courage to you.<\/p>\n Common Day Hero<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: PrabhaChechi, I’m so happy to receive your phone calls and messages. When crisis hit, your love became such an encouragement and strength. I AM grateful beyond words. Today, I dedicate this post to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My experience has been that courage doesn’t render anxiety, nervousness or fear null and void. My apologies, I don’t know the true origin, but Nelson Mandela (and a few others) are credited with saying, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” Courage is simply honoring the decision to walk despite…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[251,249,252,250],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-choosecourage","tag-courage","tag-courageoverconformity","tag-takecourage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lalijean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/michael-dziedzic-ioIc2yH4xLU-unsplash.jpg?fit=640%2C512&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}