Be An Audacious Annie

When you have the audacity to do something then it means you have the ‘nerve’ to do it.

Audacity can come in two ‘flavours’.

There’s the audacity that equates to being sassy and brassy. This is the brazen and brash type that comes across all cocky, lippy and disrespectful. Rude!

Negative audacity tends to get all the air time and is over-reported.

But there is another audacity to broadcast.

In the more positive sense of the word, audacity means that you have the bottle to do something. It extends from being adventurously bold to recklessly foolhardy.

In between the two is where I think the best sort of audacity resides and that’s the raw courage variety, the raw coping brand. This is the inspiring type of audacity because it is often heroic, innovative and unifying.

The adjective audacious comes from the Latin word audacia and means daring, boldness, courage.

We have to be audacious in life. We have to take risks. We have to be bold. We have to bell the cat.

Why?

Because it is liberating.

It helps us to explore and evolve.

We cannot tolerate a paucity of positive audacity, we have to cultivate it.

It is always better to make a courageous move and risk slipping on a banana skin than it is to sit idly by while life, or a scene passes you by.

For some people, being audacious is a way of being and a daily act. For example, those of us with long-term or incurable illness have to find the daily core courage and daunting spirit to live and give it our best shot and that is far from easy.

Being audacious is confronting perhaps a fear, a situation, a person or a thing with grit and backbone. There’s a risk element to it and that’s good because risks can catapult your personal growth. This takes you way beyond the comfort zone and into the magic zone.

Being an Audacious Annie is what we see in Harold Gray’s  ‘Little Orphan Annie’, the story of a tough red-haired orphan from New York City.

Annie is a feisty, perky and charismatic character that symbolises positive audacity because of her optimistic spirit and indomitable resilience – she is a symbol of hope and courage in the face of adversity. She’s a strong-willed little girl who brightens everyone’s world today.

Qualities required to be an Audacious Annie

• gutsy
• plucky
• ballsy
• brave
• determined
• optimistic
• hopeful
• humble
• tough
• competent
• independent

An Audacious Annie is the catalyst of courageous action. Being positively audacious is where we can weather and withstand the storms with our own shield of tenacity.

Annie is one of those tough-as-nails characters whom everybody wants to claim as a blood relative. But you don’t have to. You can be Annie.

You’ve got all of these qualities and if you think you haven’t then I bet your bottom dollar you have! It’s in your blood and your genes.

Now have the full-hearted audacity to be yourself.

Have the audacity to live your best life.

Have the audacity to make lots of little positive impacts on the world.

Embody audacity.

Live the audacity of hope.

Have the audacity to change.

Have the audacity to make mistakes.

I have the audacity to believe that we can be bold without losing our dignity.

What will your next audacious act be?

Have you got the nerve to bell the cat?

Audacity isn’t shy but it might need Annie to kick it up the rear end to get it moving.

You don’t have to be loud to be audacious, you just need to be bold. Being audacious will be your legacy.

Have the audacity to be positively audacious.

The dare starts from within and once untethered there is no limit to your audacity.