Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: COURAGE

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: COURAGE:   COURAGE “Courage is grace under pressure.”              Ernest Hemingway “Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.”       ...

COURAGE

 

COURAGE

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

            Ernest Hemingway

“Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.”

            John Wayne

Courage is knowing the right thing to do and doing it even when it is

hard. Courage is the will and discipline to prepare. Courage is something

we are born with, but we must recognize the courage is there. We

must look for it. Cultivate it. Grow it. Courage is not arrogance, stupidity

and doing foolish things. There is a difference between courage,

bravery, and foolishness, we must recognize the difference. Courage

is standing up for what you know is right. Pursuing the right things.

Doing our best. Making good choices. Taking care of ourselves and

taking care of others is courage. Sometimes courage is not always

saddling up anyway and doing something, it can also be restraint or

temperance and not doing anything. Self- control. Courage is setting

aside your own doubts, what other people may think and doing your

best, no matter what. Courage is in us. It is in there. It may not always

feel like it, but trust yourself, know that you have the courage. Everyone

is scared, nervous, apprehensive, excited, anxious, whatever label

you choose to put on it. If you do not have butterflies in your stomach

or your stomach does not feel like a bowl full of jelly it means you do

not care or your dead inside. Take the energy. Take the excitement,

the “butterflies” and use it to your advantage to stay focused, do

something in the moment, breathe deeply and relish the experience.

You are well prepared. You are unique. You have the skill. You have

the power. You are plenty capable of getting the job done. Who cares

what other people think about how you look, your hair or whatever

imagined up fears or concerns you have? You have the power, and

it ought not to be wasted. Rise to the occasion. Banish all self-doubt.

Without courage we cannot practice kindness, honesty, generosity,

or truthfulness. Courage. What is courage to you? It means standing

up. Being resolute in what you know deep down in your soul is right.

Courage is not puffery, recklessness, or being foolhardy. Courage is

being prepared. Courage is not giving in to what others may try to

force on you when you know it is wrong. Do the right thing. Do your

best. That is courageous.

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is

going on when you don’t have the strength.”

            Theodore Roosevelt

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Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: KEEP GOING

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: KEEP GOING:                                                               “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort an...

KEEP GOING

                                                 

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands

in moments of comfort and convenience, but where

he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

                                        Martin Luther King, Jr.

The going gets tough sometimes. There is a lot of tough going in life,

and when we feel that way we just need to keep going. It will inevitably

get better. We will be the better person or better for it because we kept

going. Struggled through and never faltered. It is like mile two in a 5K

race or mile nine in a half marathon or mile 18 in a marathon, there

is always a tough stretch, a wall, but if we push on, we will reach new

heights. New horizons. New levels. We will get the job done. It is not

given to us on a silver platter. It is not worth it if it was. We must earn

it. Then the reward is worth it. Then we feel the sense of worthiness.

The sense of accomplishment. We did it. As Winston Churchill said,

“we have just got to keep buggering on!”

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Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: MOTIVATION

Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: MOTIVATION:                                                     “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”                                     ...

MOTIVATION

                                         

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”

                                        Ralph Marston

We do not always feel motivated. In fact, some days we may go out

of our way to avoid the task at hand. This is when our discipline must

kick in. We are not always motivated so we must be disciplined. As

usual it comes down to just getting started. Once we get started, we

find our flow. On those rare occasions we just do not even find our

flow, when we complete the task at hand, when we are done, we feel

better about ourselves than how we would feel if we skipped out on

the workout, work, or whatever job needed to be done. We are going

to have to get it done at some point, so why not just get it done? The

satisfaction of a job well done, or even just getting it done is way better

than the feeling of guilt or regret of not doing it. Lack of motivation can

be just another form of resistance we need to overcome. So, step up

to the start line and just get going.

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BE A GIANT

 

                                            

“If I have seen further, it is by standing

on the shoulders of giants.”

                            Isaac Newton

Everything builds on itself. Nothing is new. Our thoughts. Our ideas.

Our actions, which all may seem original, or we may think they are,

but consciously or unconsciously we are taking the seeds of someone

else’s thoughts, ideas or work and growing them. Improving them.

Making them bigger or better with fresh insights and new points of

view. Different environments that are more receptive to ideas or work.

History repeats itself for sure. Make no mistake, many critical thinkers

and “inventors” have come forth with fantastically new concepts, ideas,

and improvements, but all this is building on someone else’s foundational

work. New breakthroughs and “improvements” may come, but

for all the unheralded or long forgotten work of many, many others

that started the ball bouncing down the path, the breakthrough innovations

would have been much delayed. We all rely on those who came

before us and around us. Give credit where credit is due and be that

giant for someone else in the future. We learn so much from those

who came before us, or we should if we only look. As it is often said,

“history repeats itself.” Technology may be vastly different, but the

underlying principles, problems, issues, human nature, rarely change.

Chances are someone has been there and done that. Learn from

other people’s mistakes. Improve upon them and make them better.

Learn from other people’s experiences and wisdom. There are so

many people in the history of the world that we can gain insight and

lessons from. Whether it be “ancient history” like Marcus Aurelius and

Seneca or “modern times” like people who are alive today, over the

last few decades and centuries. Learn from the best. Stand on the

shoulders of giants. Gain fundamental insights into what great minds

have learned before us and then look at it from our own point of view

and how to make it better. Adapt to our own environments. If you just

stand on their shoulders, you will see further than the crowd.

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