Courage is an evolutionary imperative. If we are going to evolve our lives, grow, shift, change, we’re going to have to do it with courage—and if we deny our fear, we cut off the path to change.

Just who do I think I am, anyway, to be writing all of these direct blog posts, these confrontational questions? I am just like your life, with your problems, your struggles, your mistakes, your challenges, your walls of resistance and fear. I am the girl who writes a love letter through every blog post.

Here is the no-fail plan for doing what you say you're going to do, it is simple and direct. Believe it or not, despite the directness, I say this out of love.

Courage is: feeling afraid, diving in anyway, transforming. Practicing courage is how we put those pieces into actual ACTION. Here’s how.