Feeling courage.
It seemslike courage should feel good.

After all, courage is a good thing.

A noble thing.

But courage does not feel good.

Courage means you are doing something you are afraid of doing.

Think about what’s going on when you need courage.
You are in a pickle.

Maybe you are having money problems and you need to have a talk with your partner about it.
That can feel scary.

You are feeling fear anyway, so why not try a different flavor of discomfort?

You can choose the discomfort of money problems or you can choose the discomfort of feeling courage.

Seems like an easy choice when you think of it that way.

We came to this world to evolve.
And evolving comes with uncomfortable emotions.

Doing the things that take courage feel so gratifying when you finish because they are hard.

So as you step into your courage and do the hard things to evolve and reach for your dreams, know that this is the way awesome things are supposed to feel.

They are supposed to take courage.
And you will become an even better version of yourself for it.

Changing your relationship with money takes courage.
And it’s uncomfortable.
And that’s OK.

You may feel ashamed of carrying debt.
You may feel less-than because you have debt.

But you are not less-than.
And that shame filled thinking doesn’t serve anyone.

Debt is not inherently bad.

Thinking badly of yourself because you are in debt doesn’t get you out any faster and often does just the opposite.

Instead of beating yourself up about debt, think of it this way:

Debt is just something we have received and we haven’t paid for yet.

Like a meal before the check comes.
Like a bill from your dentist.

People don’t hang their head in shame when they buy a house.
And a house is probably the most debt you will ever experience.

Debt is not a scarlet letter.
Debt is not a reflection of how good you are.
And debt is not something to hide from.

Debt is just debt.
And you are still glorious you.

What do you feel when you feel wealthy?

It might be pride or abundance or many other things.

But to create true wealth, it comes from a place of peace.

It all starts from peace.

Wealthy starts when you get to your place of peace and want for nothing more in that moment.

That peace expands and creativity adds traction.

You must get up from where you sit and serve the coffee or engineer the software or manage the people.

You must put value out into the world.

Don’t worry if you fall out of that soft cozy place of peace because our brains are designed to continually want more.

That’s part of what keeps us alive.

We want more.
Then we get it.
Then we want more.

But we can continually bring ourselves back to peace.

THAT’s where we find wealth.

It’s the merger of peace and flow… the state of doing something so absorbing you lose track of time.

Peace, flow, creativity.
Rinse and repeat.

I find the graspy, scarcity places of my brain put the kibosh on wealth.
Freaking out about money scares away wealth.

But I have created a habit of continually guiding myself back to peace.

Always back to peace.