Philosophy

Everyone continuously warns girls and women of the dangers of the world – we endlessly hear the cautionary tales of somebody who ended up dead in the woods or in a ditch. Tellingly, that is that’s the story I heard at the end of my little solo walk into a quaint little ancient French village to meet friends a few weeks ago, about some pretty girl they found dead somewhere recently. The intention comes from a heartfelt place – to keep people we love safe and alive. But the effect is that we hide, we’re scared, we can barely move, as if death or disaster is around every corner, every bend of the trail.  Our world becomes smaller by tiny, barely discernible increments until we can hardly breathe within the confines of our own skin.

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

Robert Collier

The good news is that this is how we push our sphere of influence in the world back out as well, in tiny, manageable bite-sized pieces.  Everything is about stretching our boundaries – in pressing ourselves to be comfortably uncomfortable, not in blowing out our boundaries in some area of our lives, but in continuously making ourselves a little bit uncomfortable, until that becomes our new normal, and then stretching ourselves again from there.

And this is how we reclaim our lives, our volition, our arete.

My philosophy is that CONFIDENCE COMES FROM COMPETENCE, and that COMPETENCE CAN BE BUILT METHODICALLY, EFFICIENTLY, SAFELY!!