{"id":11003,"date":"2019-04-29T17:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T23:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=11003"},"modified":"2019-04-28T19:09:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T01:09:22","slug":"twenty-seconds-of-insane-courage-or-recognize-that-in-standing-still-we-can-lose-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/twenty-seconds-of-insane-courage-or-recognize-that-in-standing-still-we-can-lose-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Seconds Of Insane Courage Or Recognize That In Standing Still We Can Lose The Most"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201dYou know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of\ninsane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And\nI promise you, something great will come of it.\u201d \u2013 Benjamin Mee in movie\nWe Bought A Zoo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was taking the long five hour flight back from New York\nCity to Salt Lake yesterday when just after takeoff the stewardess announced\nthat the wifi wasn\u2019t working.  There wasn\u2019t\nmuch else I could do but pick a movie to watch and enjoy the downtime. As I\nscrolled through the list of films offered I came across \u201cWe Bought A Zoo\u201d.  I remembered that title from several years ago\nwhen my daughter saw the movie and loved it because of the message shared in my\nopening quote of today\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you haven\u2019t seen the movie before I highly recommend\nseeing it. It\u2019s a feel good movie that\u2019s based on a true story of a man whose\nwife died so he and his two kids are trying to move forward with rebuilding\ntheir lives. The message of the movie is about having the courage to follow your\nheart and just go for it, even when you are terrified to do so. The Dad shares\nwith his kids that having a moment of insane courage is how he met his wife.\nThat\u2019s what led to his two amazing children coming into his life. And it was\nthe Dad having insane courage that led him to leave a secure job to go and buy\na broken down zoo that allowed him and his kids to create something incredible,\nit helped them rebuild their family, and led the Dad to be able to find love\nagain. None of those things would have happened without the Dad having many moments\nof insane courage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the movie ended I thought about the joy and happiness\nthat came to this family because they chose to have courage and didn\u2019t let\ntheir fears and insecurities or heartaches stop them. I thought about how it\nwas their moving forward that led them to a place of incredible joy and happiness.\nI also couldn\u2019t stop thinking about how if they hadn\u2019t moved forward they\u2019d have\nmissed out on all of that joy.  That\u2019s\nwhen it hit me \u2013 the thought of them missing out on that joy was far more terrifying\nto think about then the courage it took them to move ahead in the first place! And\nit struck me that perhaps we ought to think more about that when we have our\nown fears or heartaches or insecurities \u2013 perhaps we ought to consider it would\nbe far MORE terrifying for us NOT to move forward, because by not moving\nforward, we\u2019re going to miss out on that immense joy and happiness that could\nhave been ours!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe we don\u2019t actually need insane courage \u2013 maybe we just need to recognize that in standing still we might actually lose the most! \u00a0Life is meant to be lived in forward motion. It\u2019s meant to be a series of tries and fails and picking ourselves up and continuing to try again. We are meant to move past our heartaches and overcome our insecurities. We are meant to move ahead. That is what’s going to lead us to joy and happiness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201cWhat Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business & Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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