Tuesday
Sep252012
40 Things That Are Brave To Do
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 This list goes well with a couple of other fear and bravery lists I've written before. Check out 25 Things of Which I Am Afraid and 25 Things That Make Me Feel Brave.

the Palinode over lunch
- Stand alone in front of people and sing, act, be funny, or deliver a talk
- Have a dissenting opinion and voice it
- Share your smallest, everyday fears
- Ask for help
- Go to the dentist
- Quit a comfortable job
- Have faith in something
- Tell someone you love them
- Stand up for someone else
- Defend the rights of someone you dislike
- Face a review of your work
- Risk your own life to save another
- Be ordinary
- Stop talking and listen
- Eat unfamiliar food
- Tell people what you are good at
- Forgive someone...
- ...and, even more difficult, forgive yourself
- Admit when you are wrong
- Walk away from something that hurts you
- Parent a child
- Feel afraid but take the next step anyway
- Move to a new city
- Confront the person who has hurt you the most
- Ask for what you want
- Give up something you love
- Volunteer to help people in hard situations such as palliative care or homeless shelters
- Get married
- Go out by yourself in public
- Audition
- Learn to live through, and sometimes beyond, grief
- Come out of the closet
- Spend time on a nudist colony
- Accept criticism without shooting the messenger
- Set out your boundaries and be firm about them
- Let go of anger and resentment
- Admit that you don't know how to do something
- Cry
- Be satisfied with what you have
- Live mindfully
I need to acknowledge that this list has about a hundred co-authors, because after I'd worked on it for a while, I asked the fine people of Twitter what they had to add, and they had a lot to say.
And you? What do you think are brave things to do?













































