EVERY TIME & EVERY CONNECTION. to be real. FINDING THE courage
We invite compassion into our lives when we act compassionately toward ourselves and others, and we feel connected in our lives when we reach out and connect. And it’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off.
We’re all human, imperfect, and vulnerable.
Courage is like - a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming.You learn courage by couraging.
What Dr Brene Brown discovered however, is that the stress of not being the real deal is far worse. The fear of living every day believing that we are not quite enough is the fear that fuels disconnection. In her twelve year study of thousands of adults ‘playing roles’ in their lives, she found that by midlife, men are more likely to feel increasingly disconnected with the ever-present fear of failure becoming paralysing. And women are simply exhausted, seeing perhaps for the first time, that the expectations were impossible.
- DR BRENE BROWN
We learn compassion and connection by being compassionate and connecting. Practising courage, compassion, and connection in our daily lives is how we cultivate our worthiness - our deeply personal feeling of being ‘good enough’. It’s how we feel good about who we are. And the key word is practice. Being brave enough to speak up when it feels difficult, or step up even when you might fail, gets easier with practice. And research tells us that the braver we are, the more capable we feel, the more able we are to cope with change, and the better we become at creating and maintaining high quality human connections.
TRY IT NOW
Trading your authenticity for someone’s fleeting approval is always a mistake. Keep your authenticity safe. At Accor, being the real deal is not about working sixty hours a week trying to be ‘enough’. We know you’re enough. That’s why we chose you.
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