Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
Walt Disney

Still on courage, here.

As I think about how courage relates to getting things done, I realize that I have alot of work to do.

This is a very hopeful place to be, actually, because I'm at a turning point where I realize what work needs to be done. I can see that I get blocked when my courage faces confusion.

Confusion is that point in any project when I need to find a new path, learn a new skill, or get past a self-doubt to move forward.

Confusion is that point in learning or doing when I don't know what comes next and I can't seem to figure out what to do right now to move on. It is the phase, I think, before this:

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I'll take my Ecotour Trip Report as an example. That was such a huge goal for me to take on because I first had to learn how to upload photos and place them into a trip report. I'd put off completing the report, which is something I really wanted to do, because courage hit confusion.

When I set the goal on this blog, I sat down and did a little research, found simply stated directions here:

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To be honest, this was a little confusing at first, basically because I was sparking new gray matter, and that is always like hacking through a jungle path with a neuron machete.

Eventually, though, I got here:

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where guides are just waiting to assist. Try it out! Ask a question, and they come and answer it!

Now, every time I upload photos, all I have to deal with is how slow my laptop works. There really is no confusion at all. And once the confusion factor is removed for me, the other factors Walt mentioned:

curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence.

are free to create.

I can be a lion when courage meets adversity. I can be a champion when courage meets injustice. I can be a pioneer when courage meets new territory. I can even be a conqueror when courage meets a battle that I find worth fighting.

But when courage met confusion, I shrank. I'm changing that now. I've missed too many opportunities to not get past this.

They say we teach best what we need to know, so there you are!

Has confusion interfered with something you are trying to accomplish?