Courage, energy, effort: Shaping Your Future

As we grow into adulthood and progress through life, many of us start to better understand that a blueprint for success does, in fact, exist. That’s not to say that the blueprint shows us the exact steps we need to take to live the life we want, but rather it shows us how to do the inner work needed to reach success.

In today's episode, I talk about three things that I believe are crucial to being able to get what we want out of life: energy, effort, and courage. Three simple words that hold a magnitude of power. I discuss how each of these words has applied to my life as well as the lives of three monumental and influential African American women: Mary McLeod Bethune, Anna Julia Cooper, and Septima Poinsette Clark.

Tune in and listen to the fifteenth episode of I Can Do This Show Me How! to be inspired into your own journey, led by energy, effort, and courage.

In this episode, you will learn:

• What three words we can use to shape our future (0:50)
• What courage meant for me (6:04)
• What courage meant for Mary McLeod Bethune (6:58)
• About the importance of practicing self-reflection (12:52)
• What energy is and how to find ways to replenish it (15:19)
• About Anna Julia Haywood’s journey (17:11)
• How I define courage and what it’s meant to me through the years (24:32)
• About how Septima Poinsette Clark understood the power of sustained effort (25:40)

Resources

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

Freedom’s Teacher by Katherine Mellen Charron

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• Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) www.score.org
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