Courage is a battery that charges while you use it. Spend a little today.

Nerve does not deplete with use the way people expect. Each time you do the frightening thing and survive it, the next one costs slightly less, because you have evidence rather than only imagination about what happens. Avoidance works the other way: every postponement makes the same act larger, and nothing was actually saved.

Do one small frightening thing today rather than waiting until you feel ready. Send the message, ask the question, say the unpopular sentence. The capacity you want later is built entirely out of small attempts made before you felt prepared.