Courage

"There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in." ~ Erma Louise Bombeck

Erma Bombeck definitely wasn’t a woman that keep her dreams in little box. She went after them with gusto… writing 13 books over her career, becoming a principle player in the final implementation of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1978, participating in Good Morning America from 1975 until 1986, writing columns in various newspapers and magazines from the time she was a student in Junior High until her death. She was a woman that was full of courage.

Where can we get courage like that? Do we need to find something that we’re missing or do we need to lose something that we’re holding on to in our lives?
What would happen if we went after our dreams with the same passion that Erma Bombeck went after in hers? Well, one of two things…

We SUCCEED or we FAIL. Both of those results can fill us with fear.

If I succeed – what then? What will people expect from me from that point forward?
If I fail – then what? Will everyone think “I knew she couldn’t do it anyway”?
These are thoughts that went through my mind when I considered starting this Blog. And then I realized - in both of these instances, I was worrying about what other people would think. I was going to let other people keep me from my dreams!

I decided to go for it and I haven’t turned back. I hope you do the same…