Its all about COURAGE!

I just returned from the Christmas break and had the most amazing trip of a life time and fulfilled a life long dream of surfing the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii where we ( my wife Kathryn, 8 year old daughter Jazmin and from the band Stand & Deliver drummer Nick Cunneen) rented a house on the beach at Banzai Pipeline.

I gazed out the backyard every day at the Courage and ability of these mostly professional surfers paddling into monster waves on a very shallow threatening reef and getting either smashed or the ride of their life, there is only one word to describe and that is sheer COURAGE !!

“ Everyone brings their COURAGE to the North Shore”

JD Haliewa surf school and Broadcast Director Triple Crown surf contest webcast and Filming

I use to wake up early every day to hear the pounding of the ocean 100mt from our back door and wonder if we were going to end up with collateral damage to ourselves or get the wave of our life, luckily no injuries and yes we did get some amazing waves that will never be forgotten, until the next trip anyway.

I began to think where does courage come from and how it comes in many different forms, an example is that we have clients that find the courage to say yes when we have pitched the most out there concept on an event that may shock them, however they get the COURAGE to say yes lets do it !  I too have had the Courage to even suggest the idea or one of the DG team has.

There is courage in starting your own business or booking an act you haven’t seen ( usually advise against that one) creating a different layout to the way you have had the room set up for the last 6 Gala Dinners and on it goes, there is courage in every aspect of business and life.

Recently working on the Australian Open we saw that amazing courage and determination from Nadal & Djokovic which did great things for the game and there are too many stories in every form of sport to go into.

“What Djokovic and Nadal did last night for Tennis can’t be measured.  Take that sort of fight into any walk of life, the possibilities endless”
Ken Sutcliffe Ch 9 Sport tweet

So I guess the philosophy to this story is we all find the courage in sport, business or day to day life, sit back sometime and think about the times you had the courage and I guarantee there will be numerous times as courage is in all of us, some a little more like the big wave surfers on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.

If you can do what they do you can do anything in life especially business!!!

MD
Dave Green