Personal Development

Do It Scared, Or Do It With Pride

Feel the fear and do it anyway

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It’s the advise we all give each other. Not wanting fear to stop us from doing the things that matter. To do it scared. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

To not be diminished, get in our own way, or be less than we are capable of.

We encourage each other to be brave because we recognise that fear is there. Its is a noble position to take.

Yet there is rich and valuable role in the purpose and meaning, involved in our decisions. Fueling our motivation and signposting something important about who we are becoming, which is also at stake.

Why else would we make the uncomfortable and difficult decision, to choose to do things which scare us?

Surfacing and finding clarity, in why we make difficult decisions, gives us the tools to change how we experience them. Transforms our perspective and how we live with some of our fears.

Nerves can be excitement, fear can be uncertainty.

We can choose how to experience and understand the things that are uncomfortable, so that they don’t feel as scary.

We can choose to take pride in the strength and merits of our decisions. To do hard things, because of the people we are becoming. To let go of focusing on the things we can’t control, and attend to the things we can.

We can choose to experience pride and growth, instead of being scared or feeling fear.

All of us have been brave before. And we will continue to choose to do so again. Knowing why we make a decision to do something, to act - we can shift the focus to who it says we are becoming, rather than noticing what it is we are fearing. We can let go of the fear and focus on the growing.

We can choose to see a brave person, following a purposeful and courageous path. A person who has decided to choose to be braver.

A Day In The Life Of Being In The Collective

Membership to the Be Braver Collective is about so much more than learning to Be Braver. It’s about connection, collaboration, partnership, friendship, accountability. Not about #livingyourbestlife but about living a lie of purpose, meaning, intention and growth. A courageous life.

Choosing Courage

Choosing Courage

The behavioural outcome of not choosing courage. Where avoiding personal development becomes the enemy of business development. Where the emotional discomfort we don’t know how to handle hijacks our growth and hinders our futures.

Be Curious. To Be Braver.

Be Curious. To Be Braver.

As this Meta-analysis suggests programmes, like the Be Braver Practitioner programme that seek to raise curiosity can have the effect of increases in #creativity, #innovation, life satisfaction, life meaning, #performance and job satisfaction.


In Be Braver - we start with curiosity to explore how we gain the #clarity pertaining to our role, vision, values and ambitions so we can apply this to both personal and professional contexts.


Driven by this unique blueprint, we seek to critically appraise what this shows us in respect to our confidence as a leader, our skills, competences and beliefs about the self and others.


Creating #connection comes from a place of curiosity about the world, environments and emotional connections with have to the abundance of resources and relationships available to us.

To build on our vision, to support making values aligned decisions. To grow confidence.

Clarity, confidence, and connection fuel our commitment in the moments where we need to choose courage - it is our curiosity to see what we find on the others side of our courageous values- aligned decisions that can make all the difference as to whether we listen to the risks of avoiding or the risks of taking action.


Stay curious.

Ask yourself the difficult questions.

Choose courage.

Be Braver.


If you really want to ask your self the questions that can make the biggest difference - try our Be Brave questionnaire

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12144-022-03107-w.pdf

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Feeling like you would like to be braver and make changes happen? This week Karen is joined by Caroline Pankhurst, founder of Be Braver, and on a mission to help women realise more of what gives value and meaning to their personal and professional lives. While this episode started with Caroline outlining the Be Braver program to which she is generously offering a discount to the WiD community, it quickly got out of control and turned into a very personal conversation and a coaching session around bravery. Get ready to embark on a journey to identify your limiting beliefs and to walk away from them. You will also hear about Caroline’s work, discover the main traits of people who are perceived as courageous and try out 2 simple exercises to realise how courageous you already are.