Apparently, I’m not President Obama, Bill Gates, Wang Jianlin, or even Beyoncé, but I’ve been blessed to humbly profit from my hard work and achieve what I’ve achieved. Achievements do not negate hardships or a challenging journey towards realizing your power.
Eight grade—after lunch—as I was walking to my next class, a fellow classmate “humorously” knocked me to the ground by ramming into my shoulder. Often “bullies” source their self-esteem from a perceivable power or confidence of another—robbing another of their strength to build their mental muscle.The fall happened fast and I got up equally as fast, while still processing what happened; but one thing for sure, his attempt to steal my confidence or steal my “power,” he failed.
Earlier on in my life, I learned that a major 🔑 to succeeding was understanding that my power to achieve didn’t depend on the actions of others, but my power was most easily exercised through how I chose to act and react in all circumstances.
What is your power?
Identifying your power may be difficult, but earlier on in my life, I began to understand that I was fully capable of achieving what I put my mind to. Within myself, I am a vessel where capability, creativity, courage, tenacity, and perseverance reside. All of those aforementioned things converge when I dig deep and employ those values to strive and thrive. You too are a vessel, what qualities, characteristics, and values define your power?
How to find your power?
Finding this power transpired through (and continues to transpire) trial and error—trying different things that require the application of the creativity, courage, tenacity, and perseverance. Nevertheless, the key to finding and maintaining your power is KNOWING you have the capability to apply the values, qualities, and characteristics that make you, YOU! For me, finding my power stemmed from finding out what differentiated me from others—strategic creativity, speaking, dedicated hard work, and ability to infuse empowering perspectives into various endeavors. Seeking what makes you different is essential to identifying what your power is connected to!
Who is the source of your power?
Who is the source of my power? I believe we are vessels for an arrangement of qualities, characteristics, and values that conspire to give us fuel to enact our calling, purpose, or pursuit of our goals. Personally, I attribute my calling and purpose to the plan God has for my life. Identifying the ultimate source of your power provides insight on where to turn to when you need to fuel for that power and when you need guidance on how to implement that power.
Why are you powerful?
Understanding why you are powerful is essential to maintaining a healthy framework of your power. I believe I’m powerful because I’m called to inspire, uplift, and encourage through creative endeavors. When we lose sense of why we our powerful or when we lose sense of the impact our power makes, we may stray into dangerous territory for ourselves and for others. Understanding why we are powerful gives scope to our capabilities and efforts when exercising our power.
We all may have varying perspectives on what power means and what it means to us specifically. We all have a capacity for power; our daily duty is to be mindful of how we use that power…it may breed accomplishment or detrimental failure!
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