Okay me, listen up:
Don’t work up the courage.
Work on understanding yourself and your world to the point that courage isn’t necessary.
These days, I don’t work up the courage to do anything.
I work to understand myself and my world in such a way that it’s perfectly natural - and emotionally effortless - to do it.
If it’s not emotionally effortless, then it is not perfectly natural for me to do it. Better to let Nature take care of it some other way.
If it feels scary, then I’m confused about myself and my world. The fear is my signal that I have some work to do.
So pause, clear up the confusion, and then continue in perfect alignment with myself.
It’s okay if it takes decades.
It’s okay if it never happens.
Because, no matter how confused I am about the world around me and my place in it, everything is always as it should be and I am always doing exactly what needs to be done.