DIS-Couragement March 18, 2010
Posted by Donna K. Woolam in Uncategorized.Tags: belief, courage, disappointment, discouragement
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I love words and how powerful they are to tell us things about ourselves. The little hidden meanings of things. This morning I got up and started thinking about the word DISCOURAGEMENT and took it apart to get to the heart of it’s meaning.
Courage = the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc. without fear; bravery; the source of emotion.
Dis = apart, asunder, away, utterly; or having a negative or reversing force.
DIS-COURAGEMENT then is being apart from, away from, or being reversed from that quality of mind or spirit that makes us able to press through the fear, the disappointment (another word I love — being separated from your appointed placed), or the source of emotion that enables us to go forward.
A lot of things will bring us to the point of being DIS-COURAGED…but for our sake and point of reference, let’s just talk about business things.
- Cancellations — we become afraid that if we have 1 or 2 that means ALL our parties will cancel.
- Low Attendance — well, if 1 or 2 or 3 parties in a row all have only a couple of people, I guess that I’m not ever going to have a high enough attendance to have a good party and get bookings.
- Little Family Support — if my family won’t suppor me in this, why should I expect strangers to help or believe in me.
- Recruits that quit before they’ve even really gotten started — why should I continue to recruit? I must be a bad sponsor because I couldn’t help them do better and be happy about this business.
- Missed Achievements – I can’t believe I missed it AGAIN! I guess I’m just no good at this!
On and on the list goes and it becomes more and more powerful, until we find ourselves saying to ourselves, ‘I just don’t think I want to do this because I can’t seem to make it work.’
Of course what we tell others around us is that we’re just too busy. But in reality we’ve become DISCOURAGED, and FEAR has taken over.
Fear of failure
Fear of looking silly
Fear of not making money
Fear that people don’t like you
Feat that you can’t learn the skills needed
Fear
Fear
Fear
Of course we all know that FEAR is defined as False Evidence Appearing Real.
Remember the Cowardly Lion of the Wizard of Oz? He thought that if he could get to the Wizard he could get all the Courage he needed. The truth — he’d just lost sight of the fact that the courage was inside of him, he just had to have a big enough reason to bring it forward.
What is YOUR big reason? What is your APPOINTMENT?
Discouragement and fear breed like crazy when you separate yourself from those who believe in and support you.
Even if you don’t believe in yourself right now — I do.
Donna
Donna K. Woolam
