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Are you ready, ready to release internal pain to find confidence, clarity and direction for your future, to live a life of meaning, fulfilment and contribution, to trust your intuition again, but something's been holding you back, you've come to the right place. Welcome. I'm a Ian Hawkins, the host and founder of The Grief Code podcast. Together, let's heal your unresolved or unknown grief by unlocking your grief code. As you tune into each episode, you will receive insight into your own grief, how to eliminate it, and what to do next. Before we start by one request, if any new insights or awareness land with you during this episode, please send me an email at info at the and Hawkins coaching.com. And let me know what you found. I know the power of this work, I love to hear the impact these conversations have. Okay, let's get into it.
The ultimate courage is not going into battle, to be able to use physical strength to take someone or or anything else like that, that courage is usually associated with sure those things take courage. But the ultimate courage is to take full responsibility for every element of your life. And when I first learned this 11 years ago now, I remember thinking that doesn't make sense. It didn't compute. But what do you mean, I have to take responsibility for things that were done to me that were outside of my control. And the thing is, is that when we aren't taking full responsibility, we're actually handing over our power to someone else. We're handing over our power, to circumstance to situations, to things out of our control. When we take full responsibility, and when we realise this 10 word 20 letter, sentence, how true it is. If it is to be it is up to me, once we learn that, no that embody that made that part of how we live. That's courage. Because then at any given moment, we realise that whatever is showing up for me, is my responsibility on how it's impacting me. So that doesn't mean we take responsibility for other people's stuff, it doesn't mean we go around, trying to keep everyone happy and trying to be everything to everyone. But we take responsibility for the part that we can control within us, which is how we're navigating. And so this courage, like I said, the ultimate courage means that we have to look within, we have to reflect on our values, our integrity, our honour. We have to accept and make peace with our past that that takes some courage. Stare into the darkness of what's been and reach a point of acceptance and then get back out power, get back your strength, get back our sense of security within ourselves it's, it is essential for us to step in to our greatness to our highest self
so I know from my journey that once I got started, once I had that moment of courage that am I okay, I need to reach out for help here when need some assistance. And once I realised the impact that this could make, then I look for opportunity to find more courage. It's what I love helping people with now to help them cross that bridge of the place that perhaps that they feel like they don't know how to navigate and help them see that they've got all the courage they need to step into that space is the thing that gives me most joy from what I do is to watch them then stand in their power and go and do all the things that they have talked about but not been able to do to be the person they want to be and to create space in their life. For all that they really want, not life on other people's terms, but life on their terms. To feel like they're winning in life unleashing that competitive side of them to be their best to overcome obstacles and win the day. That's courage. And that's what's possible for you too.
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