Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity.
~ Karl von Clausewitz, 1780 – 1831

As someone holidng Canadian, Australian and British citizenships (yes, I’m an international man of mystery) … I was nonetheless engrossed by Barrack Obama’s inauguration.

His speech was typically stirring (and written by a 27 year old to boot), and it brought to mind Obama’s biography The Audacity of Hope.

Audacity is a juicy word, and it’s useful in today’s quote to see its shadow, timidity.

One of the exercises in Find Your Great Work is about asking: what does full commitment look like, and this discussion plays in the same arena.

With this quote, the coaching questions are:

==> Where in your life are you being timid?

==> If you were being audacious – bold, courageous, firm – what would you do differently?

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