personal growth

7 Encouraging Bible Verses to Memorize

7 Encouraging Bible Verses to Memorize

I commit a whole chapter to discovering your natural Courage Persona in my book, Learning to Roar. I also provide a resource chapter dedicated to helping you cultivate that persona. Discovering what attribute of courage we possess naturally and how to develop ourselves in that area; is key to our personal growth. I’ve found it also helpful to know areas where I struggle to be courageous the most. Working with both our strengths and weaknesses is how we learn to tend our gardens well. Here’s a an excerpt from Chapter Five, Learning to Roar.

The Cost is Courage Podcast : Conversations with Friends Series

The Cost is Courage Podcast : Conversations with Friends Series

I commit a whole chapter to discovering your natural Courage Persona in my book, Learning to Roar. I also provide a resource chapter dedicated to helping you cultivate that persona. Discovering what attribute of courage we possess naturally and how to develop ourselves in that area; is key to our personal growth. I’ve found it also helpful to know areas where I struggle to be courageous the most. Working with both our strengths and weaknesses is how we learn to tend our gardens well. Here’s a an excerpt from Chapter Five, Learning to Roar.

Discovering Your Courage Persona

Discovering Your Courage Persona

I commit a whole chapter to discovering your natural Courage Persona in my book, Learning to Roar. I also provide a resource chapter dedicated to helping you cultivate that persona. Discovering what attribute of courage we possess naturally and how to develop ourselves in that area; is key to our personal growth. I’ve found it also helpful to know areas where I struggle to be courageous the most. Working with both our strengths and weaknesses is how we learn to tend our gardens well. Here’s a an excerpt from Chapter Five, Learning to Roar.

Courage to Face Forward

Courage to Face Forward

Why does it take courage to face forward? Let's consider these factors. The transition from 2020 to 2021 seems circumstantially unchanged. This might be the case for other years as well. And even though this is true, we can still choose to be intentional with our attitude and actions. With the growth we've experienced by getting through the challenges of 2020 we can face our current challenges with the courage we've acquired. Here's how.

Courage to Reflect

Courage to Reflect

Why does it take courage to reflect? Reflection requires you to revisit memories that maybe you’d like to keep stuffed away. But, when you choose to re-enter the painful, more difficult moments you’ve already experienced and learn from them, you cultivate courage for future experiences on the road ahead. Always, when you allow your pain to have a purpose (even if that is acknowledging your own deficiency) you are living with courage. Wasted pain is the most tragic loss in the human experience. Here are a few pointers when you take time to reflect.

Favorite Books to Cultivate Courage

Favorite Books to Cultivate Courage

This may be my favorite harvest from our “quarantine project” that became a full on podcast. In this episode we talk about our favorite books that have helped us cultivate courage. From embracing the potential to edit our own stories to accepting that intimacy and vulnerability have an impact on how courageous we are with others, it’s all here.

Find out which author was a top pic for both of us. LISTEN TO PODCAST AND DOWNLOAD THE LIST.

Courage in Failure

Courage in Failure

OK, so maybe something didn’t workout the way you thought it would. Maybe it was a relationship, or a plan, or even a new venture, no matter what flopped, you’re already ahead of the game. At least you used the courage to try in the first place. We all tend frame our flops as failures initially, the gold is to reframe this tilted perspective. You tried, that took courage. You can accept that you learned what doesn’t work so well with vulnerability, that takes courage. You can bounce back and apply that learning moving forward, now your cultivating courage! All the learning we do through experience has a cost, the cost is courage.