“Courage is innate.” Tess Marshall

I used to think I didn’t really have courage … or at least enough courage to take chances. I would look at other people taking what I thought were “wild chances” and think to myself,

“I would soooooo never do that.”

“I am just too risk averse to take big chances”.

But, there was a large part of me that really wanted to have enough courage to take the chances I should. I didn’t want to look up one day and ever think, “if only” …

So, I knew I had to change things up a little.

I was going to need to push myself out of my comfort zone and start working on getting more “courage” (I guess I should have grabbed, Dorothy, Toto, the tin man and the scarecrow and started looking for the “yellow brick road”).

Looking back now, I realize that I was looking for something I already had.

Courage isn’t something you have or don’t have. As Tess explains, it’s innate. We’ve all got it in us and sometimes it just has to be uncovered.

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