Dash of Courage: Table of Potential

"Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself."- Roy T. Bennett

There's always one guest at the Table of Potential: Resistance.

That invisible force that shows up the second you try to do something meaningful.
Write the book.
Start the business.
Speak up.
Create something real.

It always arrives right on cue--armed with self doubt, delay, and distraction.

It whispers:

"You're not ready.”
“You’re not good enough.”
“Try again later.”

And if you listen long enough...you'll believe it. 

1. Resistance Only Shows Up Where Potential Lives

Resistance doesn't waste its time on the easy stuff.

It only visits the places where it smells potential.
It never knocks on the door of mediocrity.
But the second you sit down at the Table of Potential--it pulls up a chair.

It wants you to quit before you begin.

It wants you to fold before you play.

Because Resistance knows something you haven't full admitted to yourself:
You're capable of more.
And that terrifies it.

2. The Lie We All Buy

"When we're ready the Fear will disappear". It won't. 
Fear doesn't disappear.

You just get tired of letting it call the shots.
Action isn't the reward for confidence.
Action is what creates it.

Take action.
Consistency. Then velocity.

Just start.
The conversation.
The launch.
The blank page.
The first step.

If it didn't matter, Resistance wouldn't bother with it. But it does.
And so you must.

3. Your Seat is Still Open
There's a seat at the Table of Potential with your name on it. 
But it won't stay open forever.
Pull up a chair.

Let Resistance talk.
Let it rant, and shake, and try to rattle you.
And then -
Get to Work anyway.

Dash of Courage: The real fear isn't that you'll fail. It's that you'll never find out what you were capable of becoming. Have a Dash of Courage to pull up a seat to your Table of Potential and take the first step...today. As the line from my favorite movie Good Will Hunting says: "you're sitting on a winning lottery ticket, you're just too afraid to cash it in." 

Cash it in,

Garrett