Courage, a quality I believe we all need now in spades, if we are to move through the shifts and changes we are seeing in the world.

In this episode I look at where we need to be especially courageous, where we are already being courageous and may not recognise it and what I think courage really means.

Topics include:

• Why is courage crucial now?
• What is courage?
• How are you courageous and where I believe courage is required going forward.

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Hello, and welcome to the choosing happy podcast.

I want to apologize for.

Delay getting the next podcast to you.

I had two weeks where I took time out to really reflect on what content I

wanted to offer to this podcast now.

And in the future, everything is changing as you probably know,

Outside and around the world.

And I just wanted to make sure that I was addressing the things that listeners

might want to know about tonight.

I'm looking at courage and the courage that it will take for us to move

forward in this ever-changing world with these very strange circumstances.

So I wanted to cover courage and what I am finding for myself around courage.

Courage means in terms of having to step up to Wade through the really

fast changes that are happening and the courage to choose, to be happy to

let go of things that are dying away and to embrace the new and the courage

to have a vision for the future.

So all of that, and more in this week's choosing happy podcast.

Courage.

What does that mean to you?

When are you being courageous?

Do you think it takes courage to choose happy?

For me, courage is not about not being afraid.

It's about being frightened and doing it anyway, moving through that

resistance, that feeling of being challenged, that feeling of wanting.

Closed down rather than open up over the past few weeks, I've had what I believe

in and how I believe the world works.

Constantly being brought into question and challenged, and I'm

learning that exploring or the perspectives of the premises.

Other presuppositions and paradigms also takes courage to allow yourself to

admit that how you thought and made your decisions and how you made your choices

and how you believed your world work has been not just inefficient, but actually

detrimental to how you've lived your life.

And that that perspective has quashed your creativity, your personal power and your

ability to create the life that you want.

It's humbling, challenging, and unsettling.

When your internal view of the world is shaken to the core, we want

to navigate back to solid ground.

I've been learning how to be happy living in the not knowing.

And I'm not saying I'm doing it all the time.

I'm struggling as though I've been learning, actually putting it into action.

I find really challenging.

All of my doubts, my fears, my shirts, my most, my limitations,

my beliefs are coming up to get me to swim back to the shore and find

that old island of solid ground when I'm on my way to somewhere new.

And this is just my personal experience, my internal world and my experience

of finding my truth and my reality.

And when I look at the paradigm shattering things that are happening

around the world, I acknowledged that this is the next step of my journey,

and I believe it's the next step of a lot of other people as well.

And there are unlikely to be many solid foundations to build on for

quite some time as what we've known.

Over our lifetimes is disintegrating, crumbling, and calling on us to

create something new and magnificent.

We can only begin to create something new by changing our thinking

process by perceiving and intuiting in new and magnificent ways.

Otherwise we're likely to replace the old was a copy of what came before

as an it analyst and contracts.

I remember working for a company who invested millions and the best

cutting edge software package to your place and old system, they bought

the package and switched off all of the cutting edge parts of the system.

So what they ended up with was a festival version of the old system,

nothing really had changed, and this is what we want to avoid.

It takes courage these days to dream and envision beyond what

we've been programmed to know what we feel we are limited to doing.

It takes lateral thinking, critical thinking innovation and creativity,

and that doesn't always come from the most experienced people often.

It's the novices.

The beginners that can think beyond the paradigm because they don't

have a picture of what the paradigm should be, what the box looks like.

There are no edges, they haven't been programmed into what the

limitations of the system are.

They can ask and dream of functionality and possibilities and creation and

innovation and expand paradise.

For instance, I remember writing a user guide and installation guide

and a training course retrospectively for a mobile phone reporting system.

The fact, I didn't know, the system turned out to be a huge advantage, but when I

began, that's not what I saw when I began, I felt intimidated that I didn't know how

the system worked, but I realized that.

My gold.

Every question I came up with was almost certainly going

to be asked by someone else.

Writing a client guide, a user guide and how it works was easy because I decided

to document every place I got stuck.

Every question I had, every step I took to learn and build the system myself.

The other advantage was that the tech team who knew the system were too busy to help.

So I had to figure things out.

As I went along, I had to figure things out is if I was the trainee going through

the training, sometimes lack of knowledge and preconceptions are huge advantage.

If you have no preconception or don't understand what supposedly

isn't possible, you come up with possibilities beyond the norm.

And I believe it takes massive courage to operate from there.

And you world is daunting.

If you hadn't noticed and beyond the veil of propaganda and nonsense,

there are millions of people around the world, forming new communities,

exploring how we begin to create something new and wonderful.

What do we want our new world to look like?

How do we move through this transition together was a focus on harmonious

communities, honoring mother earth, while raising consciousness

and awareness and opening up to new realities and opportunities.

We've never allowed ourselves even to contemplate or imagine I, for one,

I'm realizing how much courage this.

No matter the scale or the location or who you are.

It takes courage to step up and commit to being a part of this new world and

to be open to new ways of thinking new ways of being new ways of awareness,

uh, new ways of openness to ideas that yesterday seemed like conspiracy theories.

It takes courage to love and truth and integrity and service,

and to have compassion and forgiveness around the world.

Why does it take courage

in opening up?

We work through cognitive dissonance.

A whole self wants to deny and disbelieve what has been presented because it

feels threatened at a deep primal level.

Our egos, my ego would rather have me die than to acknowledged the

premise that it's been working with.

The beliefs values and reality system it's created to keep me safe.

And how it sees the world works, but it's no longer true.

It has nothing to hold on to or to direct with.

It doesn't know what's true anymore.

It takes courage to be open, to questioning everything

you once held as true.

And to look beyond the reality structure you've created for

yourself and that's being presented.

All of your life to the possibilities and the other realities and

paradigms that are out there.

But once you've worked your way, courageously through the shift, through

the cognitive dissonance, you're likely to find yourself was another challenge.

You've crossed the bridge and you've left many people who

are probably closest to you.

On the other side, you could go back.

And live a life with a memory of what the other side looks like.

We could drop the bridge, preventing you from returning to that old

paradigm to draw up the bridge takes.

You learn that you have to leave others behind and step onto a path

of self expansion that you had never imagined or anticipated before.

One way you learn that responsibility for yourself, and then for those

around you, and then for humanity lies with you in whatever form

that takes for you in particular.

Your contribution to the new vision, to the lights, to the higher resonance,

to the new planets is truly valuable.

And how that shows up for you is yours alone.

It takes courage to let go of the past and to work out your role.

As you watched the world crumble, you watch those, you love suffer

while most people, you know,

exist and an oblivious fog.

It takes courage to navigate these two realities to be called insane,

to be de-friended, to be shunned by friends and family for your new

controversial and supposedly radical.

As the old paradigm breaks down and the veil collapses and the wizard is revealed.

It takes courage to sit with your truth to let go of the, I told you so, and

two, instead of the compassion, support and guidance where you can, it takes

courage through all of this to serve, to get your own wellbeing in place.

To stay safe and strong and to take care of yourself on your family.

First and foremost, it takes courage to choose happy and all of this,

it takes courage to choose from your own flavor of illusion, your own bank with.

It takes courage to choose focus, to choose, to recognize where your focus is

and to choose to refocus when you need to, it takes courage to acknowledge when

you are reacting rather than responding when you were in someone else's stuff,

trying to be right, and to win rather than stepping back, letting them.

And instead often compassion and the belief that they have full responsibility

for their paths and their choices as you do yours, it takes courage to

let go when you know, it's best and wisest that they go that path alone.

Every emotion wants to challenge you and to fight and to persuade.

These people, they, you know, better.

It takes courage to let that go.

It takes courage to observe when you've done all that you can, and to watch the

consequences unfold, it takes courage to be right when you don't want to be right.

It takes courage to stay focused on the purpose.

On the reason you're here on the power of your variables.

And the greater purpose, which is so much greater than us, it

takes courage to feel the grief and the pain and to choose happy.

Anyway, it takes courage to live with deliberate intent, recognizing that the

choices we make in every moment satisfy a goal unconsciously or consciously.

And it takes courage to question your motives.

It takes courage to be brutally honest with yourself as everything

unfolds and everything unfurls within

and all of this would take courage and what we once would

call normal circumstances.

Yeah, everything feels so much more magnified now and much

more noticeable as we shift.

It takes courage to forgive, to have compassion, to be willing, to

understand, and to allow each person their own task, their own choices,

their own part in this great unfolding.

It takes courage to recognize that they have their own responsibilities

for their own journey.

No matter how hurt you feel, watching them walk over.

It takes courage to focus on a new future, a new and beautiful world, a

new magnificence, a new life from of us while paying witness to the destruction

of the old, it takes courage to trust that everything is unfolding perfectly.

It takes courage to acknowledge.

There is so much more.

We do not.

It takes courage to acknowledge the darkness.

We still do not know.

It takes courage to choose what we do with what we do know, and to take our

own path in this magnificent unfolding.

It takes courage to choose happy and all that.

To recognize the magic that is with us in every moment, the magic of the sunrise,

the spirit and vibration of a tree, the gratitude we feel for the food and water.

We have the joy and the child's innocent smile, the open hearted

freedom and laughing out loud.

You are courageous.

My friend.

And what I want to offer you going forward was choosing happy is a way to stay

courageous, to stay connected and to build a community of courageous Lightworkers

who are helping humanity and the planet move into a new and beautiful world.

Thank you for listening.

I have some courses online taking your business online.

Websites.

A couple of them are workshops.

Just get together to explore how we can move forward together, how you can move

forward as a business and on the choosing happy website, how you can move forward.

If you're looking to create a new community and a new paradigm for

yourself and those around you.

And I invite you to have a look at those, all of the links are in the show notes.

Thank you, sir.

For listening and I look forward to sharing more with you and next