Brave isn’t a jacket you put on before the moment. It’s the mud on your shoes you notice after.

Courage rarely announces itself while it is happening. In the moment it feels like being uncomfortable and continuing anyway, with no soundtrack, and you only recognize it later when you notice you did something you would have dodged a year ago. The people you think of as fearless mostly did not feel it either.

Stop waiting to feel ready before you act, because that feeling tends to arrive afterward if it arrives at all. Look back over the past month and find one thing you did that scared you. Work from that evidence instead.