1779: A Birthday Lesson by Adi Redzic on How To Be Courageous & Be Your Authentic Self

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🗓️ 24 October 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Adi Redzic shares a birthday lesson. Episode 1779: A Birthday Lesson by Adi Redzic on How To Be Courageous & Be Your Authentic Self Adi Redzic is an award-winning life, business, and leadership coach, entrepreneur, author of two books, and motivational speaker. From a war-torn childhood to meetings at The White House, Adi has proven the possibility of change and growth. The original post is located here: https://www.adiredzic.com/journal/2019/3/30/a-birthday-lesson Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily episode 1779, a birthday lesson by Adi Redzick of AdiRedzick.com
0:07.6	and I'm Justin Malik, your very own personal narrator today and every day.
0:11.6	It's not a typical podcast or are no interviews,
0:14.2	and is short almost always fewer than 10 minutes.
0:17.1	So with that, let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.
0:24.5	A birthday lesson by AdiRedzick of AdiRedzick.com
0:30.3	Apparently age only matters if you're a cheese.
0:33.9	I am pretty cheesy, so every year at my birthday I do the cheesy thing and reflect on the lessons
0:38.6	from the year before. Last year I wrote 31 lessons for 31 years.
0:43.0	It was my birthday last Monday, but instead of writing another list, this year I asked myself
0:48.4	what is one theme that I've thought a lot about and experienced as essential to a life well-lived?
0:55.9	Courage. I've come to understand that courage is the greatest
0:59.3	expression of love. My angel said, quote,
1:03.4	Courage is the most important of all virtues because without courage you can't practice any other
1:08.4	virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently
1:14.1	without courage. End quote. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the
1:20.0	changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. That change took courage.
1:25.7	Making no mistake, courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is staring fear in the face,
1:31.0	and still doing what scares us the most because that is exactly what leads to the fulfillment of our
1:35.2	greatest purpose and creation of a truly full life. I've experienced this firsthand. I've been
1:41.2	scared a lot. Many nights I found myself afraid and overwhelmed, eyes filled with tears.
1:47.2	Fear can seem very real. This past year was especially hard and scary, but facing my fears even
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