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# Start your week with courage
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/start-your-week-with-courage/
- Published: 2026-06-22T06:00:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-21T19:08:30.000Z
- Description: What if courage wasn't something you had to *do*? 💗
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Thought realisation, #re-use, Self-confidence, Quick insight, Psychology, Metaphor, MECHANICS, Attention

How would you feel if I told you I wanted you to start your week with real courage?

Sounds a bit scary, doesn’t it?

But did you know the etymology of the word ‘courage’ comes from Latin *‘cor’* and Proto-Indo-European *‘kerd’*, both of which mean ‘heart’?

❤️

Like the one in this diagram, for instance:

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2026/06/Stick-Man---TR---IH---The-two-insights_frame.jpg)](https://www.gilespcroft.com/tag/insight-series/)

You can read a series of posts looking at how these two insights landed for me, [linked here](https://www.gilespcroft.com/tag/insight-series/)

That there is a hand drawn picture from me to you, that describes the *entire* human experience.

There’s nothing outside of that - that’s it! It’s everything you need to know, and anything else we might say about the human experience is just needlessly complicating things.

(And boy, we’ve got *very* good at that, haven’t we?!)

Put simply:

💡

In every moment that unfolds, we get a felt awareness of life.  
→ And we’re either **in* it / being carried by it.  
→ Or we’re being distracted from it, by the activity of the mind.

**And the more we notice the latter** (= thought realisation)**, the more we experience the former** (= innate health).

Which is what these Daily Reminders are all about. And what I heartily recommend doing.

You could say I’m… (wait for it)… ‘en-couraging’ you.

😃

Giles

p.s. See? You take cour-age with you, wherever you go!

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Just in case your mind is protesting right now.