Courage doesn’t always feel heroic. Usually it feels like your stomach dropping and you saying “okay” anyway.

Nobody gets the swell of resolve they are waiting for. The inside of a brave moment is mostly a dropping stomach, a dry mouth and a short flat sentence that commits you anyway. That gap between how it feels and how it looks from outside is why so many people conclude they are not brave: they are checking for a feeling that does not exist and missing the thing they actually did.

Lower the bar for what counts. Notice this week where you felt no courage at all and acted regardless. That is the whole mechanism.