Summary of The Courage Habit

Do You Want to Change?

Have ever felt stuck – or wanted to improve your career, marriage, health, or relationship with yourself? Whatever your impetus, you might fear change and what it can bring. The “Courage Habit” model provides specific steps you can use to understand what you truly want to change, why changing can be difficult and how to overcome the fear that blocks change. To achieve change, you must change your relationship with fear and with your internal critical voice, and then address some decades-old truths about life.

“Liberated Day”

To pinpoint specific elements of change, describe – by writing it down – a Liberated Day, a day when you live the life you want without limits. Be free with your thoughts, dreams and ideas while detailing what it would be like from morning until night. This exercise is not an action item list. It facilitates what living courageously as a state of being would look like for you.

A second writing exercise, “Honoring the Value of Courage,” explores what various areas of your life – family, friends, career and body – would be like if the...