We all strive to be happy and to live a fulfilling life. This means following your dreams, speaking your truth, daring to be authentic and stand up for who you are and what you believe in. Speaking your truth even though some may not like it.
That takes courage!
Courage – cour means heart in french. Courage means to listen to and follow your heart. Go out and do whatever it is you have to do to follow your heart, even when your knees are trembling and your heart is racing. That is daring greatly.
I know that feeling so well – don’t you? When it comes I remind myself, if I want to live a balanced fulfilled life I must, listen and I must dare.
When I am too scared to do it I really feel I am betraying myself and it creates imbalance, I feel discontent. Not that I always get what I go after, but I have to try.
Trying is a success in itself – because even if we fail, at least we tried. We feel the emotions that comes with failing, we let go and move forward.
“It is hard to fail , but it is worse never to have tried to succeed” Theodore Roosevelt
Dr. Brene Brown is a researcher of vulnerability and shame. When I think of courage I think of her. In her books she puts herself out there. She tells the world about her shame and her vulnerabilities and she shares from her heart.
Her new book Daring Greatly is about the courage to engage wholeheartedly in our lives. About embracing vulnerability and imperfections. About Daring Greatly.
“I failed my way to success” – Thomas Edison
Anne Sture Tucker 
What a wonderful message to pass on my friend 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thank you Uru 🙂
She is a great speaker, I haven’t read her book yet. Thank you for the inspiring post! Have a nice week, Anne. 🙂
Thank you Amy – I hope you will enjoy her book too. She is an inspiring woman!
I love all of this line of thinking Anne – I am currently on the path of learning through embracing small failures as a means to greater capacity & growth. We must fail many times to become the people we want to be! Thank you for scaring this with us 🙂 XO
You are so welcome dear Shira!! It really is an important journey – I honour you for taking it! Also for the sake of our children – they can only learn to embrace failure in a loving compassionate way if they see us doing it. We grow from failure – I remind myself again and again 🙂 and again 🙂
LOVE Brene Brown!!! Thanks for sharing! xo
Me too – she is such an amazing and inspiring soul!
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Me too – she is such an amazing and inspiring soul!
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Powerful words! Your thoughtful posts always move me! xx
I am so happy they do!!!
Thank you dear Somer :-)XX
Wonderful post. Thanks for reminding us to follow our dreams and passion with hope and courage.
Thank you so!!!
Such an inspirational post, Anne! I’ve never heard of Brene Brown, thank you for introducing me to her.
I am sure you will love her – she is such an inspiring soul!
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These words are already written in my heart. Thank you for such a wonderful post!
I am so happy you liked it :-)- thanks for visiting!!