Ep161. Unlocking Emotional Courage: Emotional Triggers, Skydiving, and the Power of Discomfort.

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In this episode, Mike Kitko delves deep into the concept of emotional courage, challenging listeners to confront their fears, anxieties, and discomfort head-on. He shares personal stories, including a life-changing skydiving experience, to illustrate the power of stepping out of your comfort zone. Mike emphasizes that true growth requires embracing all emotions, not just the pleasant ones, and how this emotional courage is essential for advancing in life and business.

Key Takeaways

• Emotional courage is the willingness to feel any emotion and still move forward.
• Growth often feels uncomfortable, but it's necessary for expanding your comfort zone.
• Avoiding difficult emotions keeps you stuck in the past and prevents future growth.
• Emotions are markers of your belief system, and they reflect where you've been, not where you're going.
• True courage isn’t about the absence of fear; it's about taking action despite fear.

Notable Quotes

1. "Courage is not the absence of fear. It's your ability to feel fear and still move towards the objective."
2. "Your emotions are markers of the past. If you always work around your emotions, you're preserving your past instead of rearranging your future."
3. "You can't be courageous and grow while staying comfortable at the same time."

Music Credit: "What's Left of Me" by Wes Hoffman & Friends

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Mike Kitko is an executive self-mastery coach, speaker and author. He found external success through powerful titles, incomes, and material possessions. He ultimately fell into depression, toxic abuse of alcohol, and the near collapse of his family before he began a journey of internal happiness and success.

Bölümler

1. Ep161. Unlocking Emotional Courage: Emotional Triggers, Skydiving, and the Power of Discomfort. (00:00:00)

2. Inner Wealth Podcast (00:00:03)

3. Overcoming Fear Through Skydiving (00:06:39)

4. Emotional Courage in Growth Cycle (00:20:53)

5. Expanding Comfort Zones Through Emotion (00:27:17)