Don't wait on your cape. Go pick it up.

​As we start the second week of a new year, many of us are well on our way to living out the superhero journey we had in mind at the close of 2023. Many of us, though, are starting to wonder if we didn't imagine a story a little more super than we're actually capable of writing.

If you're the latter, if doubts are creeping in, maybe that's because you've made some healthy changes to your life but Amazon hasn't delivered your cape yet.

And you're beginning to lose confidence they ever will.

Let me remind you, a superhero journey is never about confidence. It's always about courage. It's never about knowing the cape is going to show up, it's always about having the courage to quit waiting and go pick that cape up yourself.

Too many of us are starting to wait around on a feeling. The feeling of I KNOW I can do this. The harsh reality is, I KNOW I can do this NEVER comes before having the courage to try something you have no clue you can do.

Confidence isn't going to carry you through the bumps in your 2024 superhero journey. Courage will.

Whether it's a relationship or a project you want to take on or a physical challenge you've put out there, knowing those things will work out well is totally out of your control. Having the courage to go after them having no clue if they will, that is absolutely in your control.

Confidence is overrated, because it's fleeting. Confidence can be stripped from you with one bad day or one bad performance or one bad argument.

Courage, on the other hand, no one can ever take that away from you. Not if you're a courageous person.

And courage IS a choice.

I'm here to remind you. We have 358 days left in this year. You can wait on confidence every single one of them. And it may never show up.

But courage, you can declare today, it has arrived. You don't need to sign for it. You don't need to tip for it. You don't need to do anything for it. Just declare its arrival.

Declare your courage, put your cape on and go live out your story.

Don't let confidence convince you that you aren't ready for that cape; I'm here to tell you that you are.