There is no lack of courage. It's there. You don't have to have it granted to you. God grant me the courage? Done, says God, because it is always already done.
Courage is the life force. It pushes the flower up through the concrete. That flower didn't have to apply for a grant. The courage to push up and break through is always already there.
The problem a coward has is not a lack of anything. A coward doesn't have a lack of courage. He has too much of something. Too much fear. Too many worries.
Consider one of the most blatant forms of human cowardice on display in today's news reports. The uncommitted super delegates. They fear committing to one candidate over another. They are waiting until one of the candidates is so mathematically totally eliminated that there will be no anger. It won't matter whom they commit to. Until that happens they fear making someone mad. They fear her flying monkeys, too. Vengeful and unspeakably scary.
Fears get added to our perfect courage. When I wrote Fearless it wasn't a book about how to add courage. It wasn't about "building up" your courage. It was about erasing fears. It started with worries (they are not full blown fears yet, but they're gettin' there). Drop the worries. Now let's drop the ridiculous fears.
Soon you realize that monkeys can't really fly. Deep down in your natural courage you allow yourself to know that.
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