Day 5: Courage, Flex your Courage

The courage you have is very much like a muscle.  You can’t build up one of your muscles without lifting some weight.  Your muscles won’t grow without you increasing your weight.  No weight, no muscle – Some weight, some muscle – Heavy weight, more muscle.  Challenging your current level of courage means you need to be challenged.

You won’t know pain unless you fall to the ground.  You won’t know sadness unless you lose something dear to you.  You won’t know courage without experiencing failures.  It’s within your failures and the recovery process that helps you build and develop stronger courage.  During the recovery process, keep an open mind about your faults.  Faults can be the reason you failed.  Know that each fault is a diamond waiting to be shaped.

In shaping diamonds, there are 2 methods used: 

1. Cleaving. Cleaving involves splitting a diamond along its natural known lines of weakness.  In each of us exists lines of weakness and undervalued strengths.
   
2. Sawing involves using a blade that cuts into a diamond forcefully across any imperfections and perfections without prejudice.

How will your diamond or your courage be shaped?