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Your Most Courageous Self: Tapping into your inner bad-assery
There's a problem, says writer Kate Swoboda: too many women are reigning in their deepest desires and settling for a life of obligation and "have to" because they don't believe in their own self-efficacy. They see limitation, instead of possibility, and they routinely tell themselves to "be realistic" about their dreams.
What's behind this problem? Fear, and a backwards approach for dealing with it. Your Most Courageous Self is a guide for anyone who has always felt that there's got to be more to life than getting stuck in self-doubt or hesitating before making a bold move. In this guide, you'll clarify and define what your Most Courageous Self wants, the voices that hold her back, and get some straight-talking support around perfectionism, dealing with naysayers, and waiting to "feel motivated" before you can begin.
Writer Kate Swoboda has been a life coach since 2006. She's the creator of the website Your Courageous Life, where her readers regularly learn how to step into more courageous ways of being as Swoboda delivers "pragmatic wisdom, with love." Swoboda is also the creator of the Courageous Living Program and the Director of the Courageous Living Coach Certification, a life coach training program based in her methodology. The website Greatist has named her one of their top 50 picks for bloggers who write about happiness and Swoboda's work has been featured on Entrepreneur, Business Insider, MindBodyGreen, Lifetime Moms, ProBlogger, the Entrepreneur on Fire podcast, and in publications such as the Intelligent Optimist. Her work explores courage as it intersects with habit-formation and research-backed strategies for creating lasting behavioral change, and has been applied to relationships, creativity, communication, entrepreneurship, business and the corporate sector. Learn more about Kate at http://www.yourcourageouslife.com
What's behind this problem? Fear, and a backwards approach for dealing with it. Your Most Courageous Self is a guide for anyone who has always felt that there's got to be more to life than getting stuck in self-doubt or hesitating before making a bold move. In this guide, you'll clarify and define what your Most Courageous Self wants, the voices that hold her back, and get some straight-talking support around perfectionism, dealing with naysayers, and waiting to "feel motivated" before you can begin.
Writer Kate Swoboda has been a life coach since 2006. She's the creator of the website Your Courageous Life, where her readers regularly learn how to step into more courageous ways of being as Swoboda delivers "pragmatic wisdom, with love." Swoboda is also the creator of the Courageous Living Program and the Director of the Courageous Living Coach Certification, a life coach training program based in her methodology. The website Greatist has named her one of their top 50 picks for bloggers who write about happiness and Swoboda's work has been featured on Entrepreneur, Business Insider, MindBodyGreen, Lifetime Moms, ProBlogger, the Entrepreneur on Fire podcast, and in publications such as the Intelligent Optimist. Her work explores courage as it intersects with habit-formation and research-backed strategies for creating lasting behavioral change, and has been applied to relationships, creativity, communication, entrepreneurship, business and the corporate sector. Learn more about Kate at http://www.yourcourageouslife.com
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Kate Swoboda
7 books38 followersAuthor, The Courage Habit. Creator of YourCourageousLife.com and Director of the Courageous Living Coach Certification (https://TribeCLCC.com). Triathlete and endurance junkie.
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April 4, 2018
What an uplifting and inspirational spring read!
I haven't read non-fiction books in a while, but I was gifted "The Most Courageous Self" for Christmas from a friend, and thought "hey, why not?" Always ready for new reading experiences, I downloaded the PDF file and began this guide to "unparallelled bad-assery".
𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓬 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓼? 𝓛𝓮𝓽'𝓼 𝓰𝓮𝓽 𝓸𝓷 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓲𝓽!
This self-help book is...
1. Engaging and fun
I didn't expect much from this guide, but rather, I approached it with an opened mind and hope to learn something new about myself. I ended up loving it! This book is full of quirky text and quotes that are easy to relate to and feel involved in. The guide offers simple exercises that evoke new thoughts and ideas.
2. Realistic
While reading this guide, I didn't feel like I was reading some form of false lies or propaganda to make me feel better. Rather, this guide acknowledges that there are limitations and boundaries in life, but offers ways to combat the challenges and shares words of wisdom. The guide doesn't promise to magically change the quality of the readers life, but promises to offer a new perspective about fear and personal limits, which it does.
3. Short and succinct
This guide is less than 80 pages and reader friendly. While I felt like I gained a new perspective, I didn't experience feelings of overwhelm or fullness. The short, simple nature of this guide makes it approachable and lovable.
𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓽 & 𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓲𝓽!
Some of my favourite quotes:
"But you also have to get your arse off the seat of indecision and decide: here’s what I want to do, in my life, so I’m doing it, and that’s that, and that’s what’s happening. This. Is what. I’m doing."
"But also? Yes, raise your glass and take a drink to celebrate your living, breathing existence, and your right to be here, and take up space, too."
"I think that you already know what life is asking of you.
I think you know that something better is available to you.
I think that your most courageous self is alive inside you."
I haven't read non-fiction books in a while, but I was gifted "The Most Courageous Self" for Christmas from a friend, and thought "hey, why not?" Always ready for new reading experiences, I downloaded the PDF file and began this guide to "unparallelled bad-assery".
𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓬 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓼? 𝓛𝓮𝓽'𝓼 𝓰𝓮𝓽 𝓸𝓷 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓲𝓽!
This self-help book is...
1. Engaging and fun
I didn't expect much from this guide, but rather, I approached it with an opened mind and hope to learn something new about myself. I ended up loving it! This book is full of quirky text and quotes that are easy to relate to and feel involved in. The guide offers simple exercises that evoke new thoughts and ideas.
2. Realistic
While reading this guide, I didn't feel like I was reading some form of false lies or propaganda to make me feel better. Rather, this guide acknowledges that there are limitations and boundaries in life, but offers ways to combat the challenges and shares words of wisdom. The guide doesn't promise to magically change the quality of the readers life, but promises to offer a new perspective about fear and personal limits, which it does.
3. Short and succinct
This guide is less than 80 pages and reader friendly. While I felt like I gained a new perspective, I didn't experience feelings of overwhelm or fullness. The short, simple nature of this guide makes it approachable and lovable.
𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓽 & 𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓲𝓽!
Some of my favourite quotes:
"But you also have to get your arse off the seat of indecision and decide: here’s what I want to do, in my life, so I’m doing it, and that’s that, and that’s what’s happening. This. Is what. I’m doing."
"But also? Yes, raise your glass and take a drink to celebrate your living, breathing existence, and your right to be here, and take up space, too."
"I think that you already know what life is asking of you.
I think you know that something better is available to you.
I think that your most courageous self is alive inside you."
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