Don’t read this if you’re a wimp.

There’s no avoiding it – there is a degree of risk attached to everything we do.

• We could slip in the bath and break our necks…
• We could be thinking of something else and accidentally put a spoon in the toaster instead of the bread…
• The brakes on the car could fail on a steep hill…
• We could get a cramp mid-bonk…
• Yarditty-yarditty…

Give me a break.

If we go through life expecting the worst, that’s what we are looking for and that’s what we’ll likely find.

If we let our doom and gloom imagination take control, it’s a sure way to find unhappiness, by the bucket load.

The reality is, the mega-possibilities just don’t happen. We have challenges, sure, but somehow we survive most of them and if we’re still breathing, we’ve got a head start on those who aren’t.

There’s no magic cocoon that will shelter us from all the hassles that come our way by the thousands each day. Most of them we ignore because they did not happen to the extent that they became a catastrophe.

Does it take courage to keep going? Most time it takes determination and persistence and if they are the essential ingredients of courage, then I guess the answer’s “yes”.

Pretty simple formula – just keep going.

The only way to be a wimp is to give up on yourself.

Here’s to lovin’ and learnin’.