Courage is a choice?

Courage is knowing what not to fear. --Plato

Plato the positive perspective guru with an "always look on the bright side of life" quotation. In life, we can spend time figuring out what it is we fear the most, or we can spend time deciding what is going well. Seems such a simple decision, but life is complicated.

When we do recognize and live in the energy of what is not feared, courage comes more easily. When everything is going well, confidence develops with more depth.

Is it then a choice - to have courage or not? If we choose to live in the positive, and the positive leads to courage -- seems like basic math.


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Compassion

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves. --Mason Cooley

The trick is to let ourselves stop so that we can take the moment to rise above ourselves. The society we roam about in nudges us to not stop. Just walk by...just let it go. Take one day or even one afternoon and STOP. Take the time to notice where you can brandish compassion and rise above yourself.

November 2010 Survey Update

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Here is the Virtue Spread as of November 2010. There are no huge changes in the top ten, but I continue to find that all 25 are important to a significant portion of the survey group. the survey just passed the 330 mark.

Not surprisingly, the 5 least preferred (although they still appear in top 5 lists) are those that create a sense of holding back, cutting back, or minimizing excess.

Recent comments about the Survey:

• This was a thought-provoking and very easy survey to complete. Thank you.
• Wow. Good to sit down and think about one's core values on a regular basis. An exercise for the heart-brain. Thanks.
• This was both thought provoking and enjoyable!
• Painless and thought provoking - what a great idea - I can only imagine the plethora of differing responses.
• It's always good for people to assess their values as a reminder what they stand for.