Values

Let’s talk about values.

What drives you?  What measuring stick do you use to determine your worth? 

Is it a large bank account?

Is it a certain car?

Is it a cushy job?

Did you get elected to that coveted position?

Here’s the point. 

What if you don’t achieve any of these marks in your life?

What if life pretty much sucks right now?

Is life over?

Are you valueless?

In the middle of all that life hands us, it is good to remember these wise words from one of my favorite authors.

“Shame resilience is the ability to say, “This hurts. This is disappointing, maybe even devastating.  But success and recognition and approval are not the values that drive me.  My value is courage and I was just courageous.  You can move on, shame.”

~Brene Brown Daring Greatly

I love that. 

A while back, on another blog site, I posted a poem entitled “In the Arena.”  Here it is again.

“It is not the critic who counts;

not the man who points out

how the strong man stumbles,

or where the doer of deeds could

have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man

who is actually in the arena,

whose face is marred by dust

and sweat and blood;

who strives valiantly;

who errs, who comes short again and again

Because there is no effort without error

and shortcoming;

but who does actually strive to do the deeds;

who knows great enthusiasms,

the great devotions;

who spends himself in a worthy cause;

Who at the best knows in the end

the triumph of high achievement,

and who at the worst, if he fails,

at least fails while daring greatly.”

~Theodore Roosevelt

Sometimes referred to as

The Man in the Arena)

Daring greatly is all about courage and values!

You care so much for what is right that you dare go into the arena and face the giants just because you believe in something worth believing in. 

May the ranks of mankind swell with those who dare greatly!

P Michael Biggs

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