Margie Warrell is a Coach, Speaker and Author of “Find Your Courage! Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want”  Originally from Australia, Margie is recognized internationally as an expert on courage as it relates to leadership, communication, relationships and life!  Margie is passionate about empowering people to pursue the goals that inspire them with greater clarity, confidence and courage.
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8. The Courage to Persevere
Resist succumbing to resignation in the face of adversity for any dream worth pursuing requires its share of determination and perseverance.   Mistakes don’t define who you are; they are merely part of the learning process. Stay connected with what tugs at your heart remembering that it matters not that you reach the summit, but that you had the guts to embark upon it. The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life.

9. The Courage to Say No
Sometimes you need to say no to the good in order to make room for the great. Finding the guts to say no first requires first being clear about what you most want to say yes to.  This will empower you to rise above your desire to ‘people please’, to set boundaries and honor priorities when being pulled simultaneously in conflicting directions.  Saying no may never be easy but the rewards that flow from honoring what is most important to you ensure that it will always be well worth your effort.

10. The Courage to Live with an Open Heart
Life’s deepest fulfillment comes from being as open to experiencing its pain as deeply as its joy. Only by letting go anger, granting forgiveness and making yourself vulnerable to others and to life can you ever taste the richness of connecting with others openly and compassionately.  Find the courage to lower your defenses, reveal your humanity and make yourself available for others to truly know, love, care for and connect with. Nothing is more nurturing to the human spirit.

11. The Courage to Let Go
Happiness comes through giving life your best whilst simultaneously detaching yourself from the outcome of your efforts.  Put your faith in the wisdom that created you, trusting that within you is all you need at any moment to take on the challenges life presents you. Giving up trying to be perfect and resisting what you cannot control and going with, rather than against, the flow of life will make you available to enjoying the present moment. Finding the courage to let go will not impede your ability to achieve what you seek most from life, it will enhance it. For when you hold on control you bound possibilities, when you let go you unleash them. 

12. The Courage to Be a Leader
Leadership is not a position; it’s a choice.  Every day you have opportunities to be a leader – to inspire others to dream more, do more or become more. By taking the path of integrity, responsibility and courage you will automatically shine your light so brightly that it will reveal to others the majesty of their own.  You are capable of more than you think. Only by finding your courage to be all you can be will humanity, as a collective, find it’s courage to lead the world into a future filled with possibility and opportunity for all to fulfill their individual potential and experience their own unique greatness. 

1. The Courage to Take Responsibility
You can’t always choose your experiences in life, but you always get to choose your experience of life. Only by taking full responsibility for your life can you effectively address those aspects of it which aren’t as you’d like. You will never solve your problems by condemning them so resist the impulse to blame your woes on others and make the decision to own each and every aspect of your life.  

2. The Courage to Live with Integrity
Placing integrity at the cornerstone of every decision you make, requires doing what is right above what is convenient or politically expedient.  At times this means veering off the safe easy path onto a riskier one. Only by having alignment between your deepest values, what you are doing and who you are being can you ever enjoy true peace of mind. There are many paths you can follow in life, integrity is the only one upon which you can never get lost.

3. The Courage to Challenge Your ‘Stories’
You do not see the world as it is, but as you are.  You do not own the truth, just your version of it.  Have the courage to question your assumptions and beliefs and open your mind to alternative perspectives. Doing so will open up an array of new possibilities freeing you to make new choices and take new chances that will lead to better results and experiences in every area of your life.  

4. The Courage to Dream Bigger
You can never have your dream life unless you first find the courage to ask yourself “What do I really want?”  Dare to create a vision for your life that is bigger and more meaningful than the one you’ve had until now - in your relationships, career and life in general. The greater danger is not that your dreams are too lofty and you fail to reach them, but too small and you do. Your life is as big as you dare to dream it!

5. The Courage to Be Yourself
In a world that pressures for conformity it takes courage to be who you are.  Give up the never ending quest to impress and express yourself authentically in every relationship and in every encounter. When you fail to be authentically yourself you keep from others that which makes you most attractive; when you conform all you have to offer others is your conformity. Be genuine, humble and, unpretentious but most of all, just be yourself. There is nothing more attractive.

6. The Courage to Speak Up
Dare to express your concerns, give voice to your feelings and to ask for what you really want. Don’t choose the certainly of never addressing an issue or fulfilling a need over the possibility that you may have an awkward conversation or a request declined.  What isn’t talked out gets acted out as unresolved resentments fester.  Speaking up in ways that honor dignity will build more meaningful and rewarding relationships.

7. The Courage to Step Boldly into Action
Nothing changes if nothing changes.  Trade resignation, procrastination and excuses for a commitment to being a person who will do whatever it takes to make the changes and take on the challenges that inspire you. Life rewards action so whatever the risks you face in your endeavors, the greatest risk is to take none at all. Fear regret more than failure.