Daay 33 - Power - Impotence

 Power  (Goal Number:         )                                     Impotence

effectiveness, potency, vigor, competency, able, virility                          helpless incompetent, victim, powerless, ineffectual

AWAKE TO THE GENUINE VALUE

Your power emanates from within you, from a deep place. You don’t have to display grand gestures of power to be a person of power, you are simply confident. You are effective in what you do, often quietly getting things done. You have a potency about you that people feel. You have energy and vigor and are full of vitality. You are extremely competent, able to accomplish tasks and live life to the fullest. You move forward over and past obstacles, often amazing onlookers. Your power is about being the best you that you can be, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with power over others. It is power over your own life. As a result of your effectiveness, you may find yourself as someone who has others working under them, but you treat them not as less than, but as unique individuals who deserve respect.

 PARTIALLY ASLEEP TO THE GENUINE VALUE: 

You stumble here and there over yourself. Your power from within is still developing and not fully potent. You are variously effective, but do doubt yourself sometimes and so pull back. You have a need to call attention to your accomplishments, rather than let them speak for themselves. Your energy level is not constant. Some obstacles seem too much, and you feel you don’t have the strength and energy to get past them. You are moderately effective most of the time, sometimes very effective, and sometimes you sort of fade away.

LIVING IN THE IMPOSTOR VALUE: 

You live a mostly impotent life, having lost touch with your inner power. Often, you feel helpless, and you see yourself as a victim of so many circumstances and people. You do not feel competent to do most things, although you may have an area where you are skilled. But you play the victim even there and sour it, You believe you are powerless. Taken to the extreme, you either give up or do some dreadful thing to prove you are powerful after all.

Look at your life. Which is the most true for you?   ____ 1   _____ 2  _____ 3

What to do:

DECISION

Choose. Which do you want for yourself and your world? Which way would you like life to be?

FOCUSING YOUR MIND

Going for the target you have chosen

To shift in the direction of power, select some or all of the following and copy them in order to have them with you. Live with them. Think about them. Absorb them.

·  My power comes from within naturally and gently.

·  I am confident in myself.

·  I am effective in the way I approach life. I am effective in all I choose to do.

·  I am filled with vitality.

·  I am able to do helpful, kind, and even great things with my life.

·  I am a powerful person.

REINFORCING BEHAVIORS

Action steps to take to get off the log

·  Remember a time when you felt effective and powerful and then lost it. What was going on? What led you to moderate your power? What do you need to do to allow yourself to be confident and powerful again?

·  Take something you want to be able to do skillfully and develop it. Practice it, take lessons, watch YouTube videos on it, read up on it, join a group that does that thing. For example go to Toast Masters, join a guild, find a friend to share your practice. Keep going until you feel competent, then continue as a competent person.

·  Practice good posture, Stand up and walk in a confident manner. Say to yourself as you walk, “I am a confident and powerful person.”

·  Take Aikido lessons.

· Realize real power is not about subduing others, but it is about knowing yourself and being fully you with no fear.

Remember Power