5 Steps for Growing Boldness
Growing boldness gives you the fortitude to push through the demands of the world. When you know what you are doing and why you are doing and how you are doing it, then you begin to create the momentum for getting it done.
It’s one step at a time, one change at a time, one intentional action at a time. But when you do, then you will!
You have to be serious about the change you are creating because change always comes at a cost.
You are designed to live the abundant life, but you have to make the intentional choice to walk it out.
Honest Evaluation
The distractions and the chaos of the world will try to hold us back from our path of purpose. If we are going to get serious about changing from where we are to where we want to be then we have to be honest about how we are investing our one limited resource.
- Evaluate your time
- Weigh the true desires of the heart
- Compare actions with wants
- Make a plan for intentional actions
- Review to celebrate and correct
Nobody can evaluate the journey but you. Only when you are open and honest about the steps you take and the goals you dream will you be prepared to walk boldly into your purpose.
Serious About Change
If you want to change from where you are to living your BIG DREAM goals then you have to get serious about change. You can’t stay where you are and go. If you could, I’d have been there a long time ago., Growing boldness requires change and change requires being seriously intentional about doing things differently.
- Change takes time. Set aside the time to do the intentional things.
- Daily actions make the way for change. Doing things even when you don’t want to do anything.
- Accountability comes from a daily written record of how resources are allocated.
- Use the records to evaluate the results (and make the adjustments to get the results you want).
- Connect with others to expand accountability and insight.
Every one is designed to live the abundant life, but it requires the right choices to walk it out. Getting there requires honesty, accountability, and change. If you are going to change then you have to be serious about making the better change for your life.
Willing to Be Uncomfortable
Walking outside your ordinary and expected will be uncomfortable. It’s unknown. You can only be so prepared for what you don’t know. But being a little uncomfortable is the only way through to the boldness you need to live your unique design.
- It can’t be the same. You have to move and adjust to get out of a rut.
- Different is the only constant. It has to be different if it’s going to be bigger and better than right now.
- An investment is necessary to build the abundant life – of time, of energy, of emotions.
- Sacrifice makes room for the more.
- Bold change expands bold Faith.
Change comes with bold steps. Each step leads closer to the abundant life. I have to be willing to create the change if I want to live change in my life.
Bold First Step
All it takes to begin living the BIG DREAM goals is to take the first step. But that first step feels like its the biggest and therefore the hardest. Taking the first step declares to all who are looking that you are going for it. Sheer will drives the first step because there is no momentum behind it.
- There is nothing to look back to when taking the first step so the first step is often the hardest.
- The first step will be blind because you don’t know what is there.
- It’s scary stepping out into the unknown so expect the first step to be a bit unnerving.
- It is a challenge to take the first step because it is new to you.
- The first step will make others look at you (often like you have lost your mind).
No matter what, step anyway. Take your first step into your unique purpose with bold intention. Like it or not, you have to take the first step to go anywhere.
Consistent and Persistent
No two words annoy me more than consistent and persistent, and yet no two words are more powerful for building a purpose life. Purpose doesn’t just show up on the front porch. We have to actively engage in life to begin living the possibilities waiting out there.
- Consistency grows with each step because the momentum from the last fuels the next.
- Momentum remains only with the consistent investment of more.
- Persistent pushing breaks through resistance.
- One more thing consistently done moves us one step closer.
- Anticipation of the next step unlocks the drive of consistent and persistent habits.
There will always be an excuse holding us back – if we take it. Very good reasons to stop standing on every corner, if we accept them. The consistent and persistent pursuit of purpose will move us beyond the excuses and reasons into a possibility focus.
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Growing Boldness Makes Room for Purpose
The only way there is to go. If you want to live the live you were created to live then you have to make the choices to do what needs to be done.
It is simple
It is frustrating.
It is still the basic truth.
Growing boldness helps create the fuel you need to live your best life.
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