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    Quiet Courage: Conquering Fear and Despair with the Stockdale Paradox: Healing For Life, #2
    Quiet Courage: Conquering Fear and Despair with the Stockdale Paradox: Healing For Life, #2
    Quiet Courage: Conquering Fear and Despair with the Stockdale Paradox: Healing For Life, #2
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    Quiet Courage: Conquering Fear and Despair with the Stockdale Paradox: Healing For Life, #2

    By Suzanne Grosser

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    About this ebook

    If you have ever felt like a prisoner of your circumstances, this book is for you.

     

    It starts with the story of Admiral James Stockdale. He spent seven horrific years in a POW camp. Once the commander of ships, suddenly he was subject to the whims of his captors. Yet his spirit was unbroken. The wisdom he gained that led him to triumph over this trauma has become known as the Stockdale Paradox.

     

    The book offers practical advice to apply his wisdom to your situation and create a better life.

     

    Learn how to:

    Gather the energy to do what you need to do.

    Never waste any of your power.

    Steer your life onto the right path.

    Find peace in small victories.

    Create the future you and your loved ones deserve.

     

    There are small, but important things you can do, today, to make your life better. 

    Let this book unlock the Quiet Courage within you. Start today! 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSuzanne Grosser
    Release dateDec 14, 2016
    ISBN9781386664826
    Quiet Courage: Conquering Fear and Despair with the Stockdale Paradox: Healing For Life, #2
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    Suzanne Grosser

    The only thing I ever wanted to be when I grew up was a writer. (Except for a brief period when I was three years old and decided I would be a fire fighter because I really wanted to drive that fire engine.) My parents read to me every day. Children's books, of course. But poetry and bits of the classics, too. Story time was my favorite part of the day.   Left alone to play, I enacted elaborate dramas with my stuffed animals. I told my dolls stories while I jumped on my bed. For some reason, the plot lines flowed better when I was jumping. (For the record I no longer do this. My knees are not as forgiving as they used to be.) When I was five, I was so obsessed with stories, that I was even willing to give up my play time to go to school. My parents promised I would learn to read, so it seemed a fair deal. My plan was simple. Once I could  read, I would not have to wait for someone else to read to me. Best of all, I could learn anything I needed or wanted to know.  I figured I  would not even have to go to school anymore. Brilliant! That is when I learned that life does always follow your plan.

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      The author used stories of heroes to convey a message of hope, encouraging perseverance and courage in all our affairs. The changing of ones perspective and aligning their life to principles not condition is something that has served me. My prayer and wish for you is that, if you choose to read this, that it will serve you as much as it served me.

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    Quiet Courage - Suzanne Grosser

    Introduction

    Courage can be dramatic as facing down an armed gunman, or dashing into the path of a car to save a puppy. It is the stuff of superheroes, historical legends, and a few individuals whose valor gets splashed across the headlines. It is tweeted, shared, liked, and then thrust aside for the next dramatic story.

    This book is not about that type of courage. I admire those brave souls, but I am not one of them. I am more of a flight, rather than fight, kind of girl. That is if I can un-freeze long enough to move my feet.

    I am not a brave person, yet I find a way to do what scares me when I know it has to be done. I am still terrified, holding it together by sheer force of will. I refuse to quit, usually because I can see no other way through the danger except to face it head on. I do what has to be done. If my hands are shaking, well, most people won’t notice.

    The Exception

    There is one exception to my flight rather than fight predisposition. My children. If you have children, you know what I mean.

    Growing up, I had an uncle who terrified me. He had never done anything to me but, I was afraid. Despite the reassurances of other adults, I still felt a twisting in my guts when he was around. So, I avoided him - flight! I did nothing to call his attention to me - freeze!

    Years later, I attended a family reunion. I was all grown up with two children of my own. I had a baby in my arms, and a toddler at my side. I saw my uncle. He was heading my way. But I was not afraid; I was something altogether different.

    The hair on the back of my neck stood up. My eyes narrowed. I could almost feel my lips curling back into a snarl. I did not feel fear. I felt aggression, a desire to pounce and destroy this threat. Whoa! Where did that come from?

    The arrogant smirk he always had for me, slid off his face. He changed direction. He never spoke to me. He never got any closer to me or my children, and I never let them out of my sight until we left.

    Was he a threat? I don’t know. But I know I was not going to find out at the expense of my children. I don’t know if that is courage. It might have been a combination of instinct and priorities. But I never considered any other course of action than fighting that threat to my children.

    Brave People

    I am grateful that there are those people who are both brave and strong, people who are willing to be heroes. I am grateful that there are people who wake up every morning, willing to rush into a burning building, walk a beat, or stand guard duty. Knowing they exist makes me feel safer in this world. They can inspire us all to stand a little taller when facing our own fight.

    But as I said, this book is not about that kind of courage. This book is about a less dramatic type of courage. It is about getting up every morning and facing the what needs to be faced. This courage battles demons and fights against larger-than-life foes. Hopeless odds. Altered bodies. Ruined relationships. Financial disasters. This is the courage to quietly take small steps in the right direction, every single day,

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