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\n(Photo by Dalton Touchberry)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I am going to show you how just displaying just a tiny, miniscule amount of courage can completely transform your life. This was inspired by a talk that motivational speaker Darren Hardy presented.<\/p>\n Courage is a daunting concept isn\u2019t it? Courage is for heroes and most of us never quite identify ourselves as such, but it\u2019s not as distant as you might imagine. You would probably agree with me that courage would enable you to break through barriers you would never otherwise dare to near. Right?<\/p>\n What if you were to discover that it doesn\u2019t take a preoccupation with courage to embrace the magnificence of it? In fact, you really don\u2019t have to live a life of courage let alone be courageous 24 hours or 1,440 minutes a day. How about just settling for one minute of courage a day?<\/p>\n Let\u2019s say you have to pick up the phone to call a prospect, or say \u201cNo\u201d to someone, get up on stage to speak, introduce yourself to strangers, raise your hand, jump off a diving board, have a difficult conversation with a friend, make a decision, or apologize to someone. These are acts of courage that ignored don\u2019t improve things or allow you to grow. In fact, avoiding some actually make things worse. On the other hand, doing them just three times a day could create breakthroughs in every portion of your life.<\/p>\n Fear is just an illusion we make up in our minds until reality sets in. It most often comes in anticipation of something, but dissipates once that something actually occurs. Speaker Darren Hardy uses ski diving as an example. Fear levels increase for skydivers while a plane ascends, but then evaporate once the diver jumps out. To some extent, it\u2019s just like that with everything in our lives.<\/p>\n The act of being courageous takes only about 20 seconds. It\u2019s where everything in you is scared and says \u201cHell, no!\u201d but you do the opposite and instead attack your fears head on. Hardy says, \u201cShut off your brain, close your eyes, hold your breath, and do what every corpuscle of your body say that you don\u2019t, and run right at it.\u201d Like the skydiver, once you do, the fear dissipates. Yes, this takes about 20 seconds for you to ponder, make a decision, and execute. Then it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n Now if you would do this three times a day, that would be only a total of one minute or less than 7 one-hundredths\u2019 of one-percent of your available time. Is that too much effort to transform you life, business, relationships, etc.? You know it\u2019s tiny and allows you to spend the rest of your day not preoccupied with anything courageous.<\/p>\n Yes, making just three uncomfortably courageous decisions a day can quickly empower or change your life. Shut your brain or monkey mind off and attack a fear head on. Try it just once. It will take less time than it took to read this. Repeat for a minute of courage every day and you will fly freer and higher than ever before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"