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COURAGE...
From
the French word COER, which means "heart." It was once believed
that the heart was the seat of intelligence.
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COURAGE,
then, is a certain type of intelligence in action.
The dictionary describes it as "mental or moral strength
enabling one to venture, persevere, and withstand
dangers, fears or difficulty firmly and resolutely."
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We
don't pay enough attention to the need for courage (the
heart) in our work. When that happens our people feel the
affect of our lack of courage.
Shakespeare
told us this would happen….
This
soft courage makes your followers faint.
Courage
can't be soft. Just like the human heart, it must be robust
-- both strong and flexible.
A quote
from David Whyte's The Heart Aroused - The Preservation
of Soul in Corporate America.
It
has long been puzzling to physiologists that biological
rhythms (such as the tireless human heart-beat), rhythms
that never repeat themselves in quite the same way, are
the basis of managing so many of the body's vital systems.
The
heart varies its rhythm and rate of blood flow with almost
every movement, yet displays a remarkable consistency
over time.
A
healthy heartbeat full of strange little flourishes and
incongruous leaps, but true to an overall pattern over
time, given the same nudge, always settles easily, disturbance
over, back into a life-giving beat.
This
is a description of both the human heart and the character
we call COURAGE.
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