Are you afraid to be bold?

I just saw Drew Barrymore in a Cover Girl commercial and it hit me:

Successful people aren’t afraid to be bold.

Boy, inspiration can hit at any time, can’t it?!  And it’s got me thinking…what does it mean to be bold?  So I looked it up in Dictionary.com and I like what I see.  Bold is…

1. not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or rebuff; courageous and daring: a bold hero.
2. not hesitating to break the rules of propriety; forward; impudent: He apologized for being so bold as to speak to the emperor.
3. necessitating courage and daring; challenging: a bold adventure.
4. beyond the usual limits of conventional thought or action; imaginative: Einstein was a bold mathematician. a difficult problem needing a bold answer.
5. striking or conspicuous to the eye; flashy; showy: a bold pattern.

I hope this definition fires you up, because your Calling requires you to be bold.  You must be courageous and daring.  You must not hesitate to break the rules.  Your inevitable success is asking you to break the rules.  So you get to let go of all of those “have to’s” and “supposed to’s” because bold is to do your own thing regardless of what others are doing.  You must dare to be yourself and share your message no matter how far beyond the conventional thought it goes.  And to top it all off, you get to be showy.

Wow.  That’s hot!  And bold.

Oh I’m so inspired right now and ready to be my bold self.  Let’s do this together.  Here are some questions to answer in moving towards your boldly successful business:

1. What does bold mean to you?
2. Where in your life are you already bold?
3. How can you translate that into business development?
4. What kind of things does a bold person say and do?
5. What are 5 simple things you can do to practice being bold?

Post your answers as a comment as I would love to learn from you and with you.

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