Saturday, January 20, 2007

Stressing about having courage

I will be really pleased when Lisbeth comes back to France. She is getting quite stressed in England with her situation. So much so, that she ended up with pains in her chest, last night. She's never had pains like these before so looked up symptoms of heart attacks on NHS Direct. Come on, Lisbeth. Have courage and do what needs to be done. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...You must do the thing you think you cannot do." --Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Social Activist and Former First Lady.

Honora de Sousa has the following advice for you, Lisbeth:

1) Understand - in every fibre of your existence - that what you're about to do is terribly frightening. Understand with every cell in your body and every thought in your mind that you are, in fact, scared of doing this thing and don't want to do it at all.
2)
Contemplate how facing this fear will help you or someone else you care deeply for. Consider for a moment, despite all of your feelings of fear toward this thing, what it would mean, what it would change in your life to be able to do it freely!
3) DO IT!

Honora de Sousa http://www.oddchild.co.za/sections/blog/5

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