How To Bring The Courageous Leader From Inside You

Courage is when a person can step out from the crowd and follow their heart. This takes courage because it can be extremely difficult doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing. Courage is when you simply follow your heart even though you feel the massive fear of doing something new.

We as humans like to play the game of "Follow The Follower". It is the way of life of basically doing what everybody else is doing. By living in this somewhat controlled environment, we as humans rarely think outside the box as we normally think of the status quo. This is why a person is courageous when he tries something new, he follows his heart and as a result, he eventually finds out who he is.

When you immerse yourself in personal development, you start to realise that there is so much more that you can offer the world. Personal development trains you to think for yourself, it shows you what this world has to offer when you use your own mind. It makes you think like a leader. It makes you follow your dreams and goals, and slowly but surely you start to drift away from "normal life". Personal development is such a powerful tool to help you build courage as it gets you thinking in the right manner. It gets you thinking for yourself which is so lacking in todays world. In the world today all we are advised to do is to think like the next guy and so on and unfortunately the next guys is not thinking much at all !

When you really start to think about it, a child for example from 5 to 18 years of age is caught is a vice like grip of conformity. He learns how to be like the other kids in his class. He learns to be extremely obedient and above all he learns to be competitive. Why does society demand we compete with each other so intensively?. There is nobody with the exact same dna as you in the world. You are 100% unique on this planet and nobody can compete with you as they are not the same as you.

All you have to do my friend in Life to be successful is to create. Everybody else is so busy competiting with each other that they never let their creative self get used. This is a pity but unfortunatley it is how the world conditions us from a very young age. We are distracted, our minds only concentrate on competing with other students and on unimportant subjects. Enter personal development my friend as you will start to use your mind for what it was created for, to create.

My advise to any parent reading this article would be the following. Get your child used to taking responsibility for himself at a young age. As I mentioned earlier, Kids are not really shown on how to think independently. Responsibility is a great way for a child to start building charachter and courage. Also show as much love as you can in the home. In a society that is controlled by fear and competiteveness, love is a great thing for a child to see in his early years so abviously the better the relationship with your spouse , the more emotions of pure love will enter the child´s heart.

Getting back to the topic of courage. A simple way to gain courage quickly is to ask yourself the question. What do you fear?. Could it be public speaking, fear of success, fear of failure, fear of speaking your mind, fear of being different?. Everyone of us has fears, but only some of us grow by confronting those fears and ultimately overcoming them. Also sometimes you may need to put a bigger reason there to confront your fear. If you have a child for example, do you want him growing up knowing that you always wanted to speak publicly but never could get over the fear?. If you wont do it for yourself, you may do it for him and also the more reasons you have written down why you must overcome this fear, the more likely you are to do it, period.

You are not alone here my friend and never feel ashamed of your fears. We live in a controlled society where bit by bit individualism is dying. You are being taught to be like the masses so obviously the logical thing for you is to act like the masses. Nevertheless, sometimes you get feelings of rage, or a need for a change, basically something out of the ordinary. This is your heart calling out and is a call to action. These are the times that you want to step up and say or do something but more often than not, your fears overcome your desires.

It is so true that whatever wins the battle of your fears versus your desires will ultimately control your life. You can either give in to your fears and go through life learning nothing or always act on instinct and go with your desires. One think I know, by overcoming any fear you have will result in a fulfilled life because basically you were who you were. You stood for something.

Are you going to walk softly to your grave or are you going to stand up for who you are and for what you believe in?. Im not talking here about grandiouse things in life, Im talking about the smallest things in the world. Im talking about when you give someone the permission to make you feel down. The only reason you felt down was because you did not respond to that person that way you desired to. Im talking about having the courage to start a business instead of following the crowd becase thats what your best friends are doing. Courage is merely you stating clearly who you are on this planet. I hope one day you will be so fearless that any situation cannot make you afraid because you know that your charachter will always "desire" a positive outcome and from this you always 100% act !. God Bless You! Jack Foley