How You Can Develop Personal Power
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
What Is Personal Power?
What would it mean to you if you were able to create the life you want?
Is it about having a career that provides you with job satisfaction and stretches you to your full potential?
Is it about having the option to travel the world whenever and wherever you please?
Is it about having an income stream which enables you to spend more time with your family?
Or is it about having meaningful and fulfilling relationships which have eluded you in the past?
The only thing stopping you from ever achieving any of these goals is YOU!
“The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.”
~Wallace D. Wattles
Personal power is being able to alter the direction and path that you have taken, gain control and change your behaviour and evolve. It is all about self-mastery not mastering others.
Once you gain control of your thinking, it will allow you to be more effective in your communications and relationships with others. It also enables you to become a competent leader who can exert influence in a meaningful way.
You need to have strong intent and focus and an intense desire to achieve success. If you analyse your present situation and make a decision on what you want, you need to take action to bring it into your reality.
” Personal power is the ability to act: the ability to take action and produces results.” – Anthony Robbins
Having Personal Power Is Based On Positive Traits
You can strengthen your own personal power by….
1. Being responsible for all aspects of your life…. no-one else is responsible for the decisions you have made and now make in your life, only YOU!
2. Accept, respect, value and love yourself…. once you are able to do that, your live will magically begin to transform.
3. Set personal boundaries….be self-aware and don’t allow others to sap your energy…. it is easy to allow others to manipulate and make you feel obligated to do what they want but there comes a time you need to step up and say “NO” to their demands.
4. Be more assertive in your communications with others…. let them know how you feel so as to get a better understanding of your viewpoint. If you believe in something, let them know!
5. Confront your fears head on to enable personal growth…. if you do the very thing that you fear, you will find that it will empower you and assist you in tackling other things that you have avoided and this will certainly enrich your life.
You can regain your personal power and transform your life if you take action. You will become empowered and achieve the freedom and the fulfillment that you crave.
“It doesn’t matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power”- Carlos Castaneda