Your Courageous Life
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I want to be clear about what I'm sharing as my vision for Courageous Living, and I wanted to offer free resources for you to try out. I don't believe that Courageous Living is about sprinkling fairy dust and reciting affirmations (though hey, don't knock that until you've tried it...). Rather, I see Courageous Living as being about embracing all that comes into the circle of your existence. Courageous Living is about making space for the hurt and pain in addition to--and to create more--joy and passion and alive-ness (and, hey--affirmations and fairy dust if that's the way you roll, or more laughter over martinis with friends, or more sketching in a notebook in the grass, or more window shopping at Anthropologie, or more sipping kombucha while reading a design magazine. Seriously--all of it). There's a lot of discomfort in our society with "all of it." We tend to want to pick and choose so that we only have the experiences that we say we want to have, and I think that this tips things out of balance. It also makes the things we say we don't want feel more unpalatable, and creates a culture of people who look for ways to disconnect (usually through substances). (Not to put too fine a point on it.) So, then, I created this wee e-book on Courageous Living. It started out as a brainstorm and then as I was sitting at the desk it took on a life of its own, and before I knew it I was scanning pages and hitting "save as > PDF." Funny how those things happen, isn't it?
If, after reading the e-book, you find that you're all about Courageous Living, too--you're all about not pretending to be anywhere other than where you are; all about stepping outside of the comfort zone to shift or try something new; all about connecting with other people in real ways; all about tapping into your passions and having fun with them; all about feeling 100% fully alive; all about excited to get out of bed in the morning... ...then go ahead. Declare it. If you have a blog, Facebook, or MySpace profile, use these images. Say it loud and proud:Right-click on this badge, save it to your desktop and add it to your Facebook, Twitter or MySpace account, linking to www.yourcourageouslife.com.   
If you're using Blogger or Wordpress, simply implement the image into your blog and click on the picture to edit options and make it a clickable link that directs to http://www.yourcourageouslife.com. If you use standard HTML formatting, copy and paste the code below into an HTML file to embed the image: <a href="http://www.yourcourageouslife.com" target="new"> <img src="courageousbadge.gif" alt="your courageous life" border=0 > </a> You can also download a free 2010 calendar, which asks a series of courageous questions on various days, offers inspiring quotes, presents invitations to participate in courageous events, and gives you heads-up 7Up advance notice for when registration will be live for any e-courses or start dates. The final page of this calendar asks you some good questions for how you can get focused and stay focused as the year goes along. Turn to the last page of the calendar for details.
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