Owning Your Personal Power NOW

Owning your personal power is the essence to living and creating the richest life possible. When I speak of personal power, I don’t mean physical power. I mean stepping into a place where your time is spent living from your heart and being connected to your creative energy, speaking your truth, making high value choices and taking actions towards your goals. I completely encourage you to make a shift out of the old paradigm that states, "It’s bad for a woman to be confident, assertive, decisive and completely happy." Shift into a new way to be, live and lead your life. Imagine how you might feel by fully embracing your unique gifts, and how making this shift will bring better results to your life and business.

I’d like you to answer this question: Are you consciously aware of your personal power? If so, do you embrace it or push it away?

How many times has someone told you that you are amazing, that they love your artwork, or your teachings? That your sales numbers are on track? How often do you push them away saying, "Who me?" "No. I’m really not." "Sales could be a lot better." And you think, "If they only knew the real truth"

My client Jill is a great example of someone who pushes her personal power away. She used to think her six-figure success was just a mistake, like she stumbled into it or she was just in the right place at the right time. She didn’t claim she created it by her dedication, effort and her own brilliance. She pushed her personal power away and thought her success was something outside herself. Being in this place of disempowerment inhibited her ability to fully absorb, to fully taste her success. She would spend a lot of time thinking she wasn’t doing enough. She watched everyone else doing things she should be doing, instead of fully engaging in the results she had created. Here she was, having achieved exactly what she had wanted but believing she wasn’t good enough for the job and acting like her success was some fluke.

Another client I coached named Susan pushed all compliments away in regards to the awards she received for her outstanding performance. When someone would walk into her office and comment on her achievement plaques hanging on the wall, instead of saying thank you and fully feeling her success, she would think, "If they only knew the real truth." This place of disempowerment kept her playing small. She focused on what she didn’t have versus what she had already created. Because she was disempowered, Susan struggled to complete the daily tasks that would have allowed her to move forward. Rather, she distracted herself to avoid the progress that would propel her toward success for fear that someone may "find her out".

One of my favorite lines from Marianne Williamson is, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

What Jill and Susan didn’t know was that living your life and running your business comes from the same power source: you, because they are made up of you. We bring ourselves to everything we do: disempowered or empowered.

Are you ready to boldly go to an area you may not have considered? Imagine stepping into your personal power. What would your life look like from this view? What choices would you make?

I would like you to create a New Healthy Vision of Your Personal Power. The first step is to take note of the areas where you are disempowered.

Examples of disempowerment:

• I don’t acknowledge my areas of success.
• I help other people to avoid looking at my life and creating my own personal success.
• I say yes when I mean no.
• I hide behind my truth.
• I stay in a place of overwhelm.

Then create a list with a new vision to step into your personal power:

• I acknowledge my areas of success.
• I look directly at the areas of my life that overwhelm me and find the resources I need to accomplish my goals.
• I say, "Yes" to only the people and things I want to say, "yes" to, and I say, "No" when I mean, "no".
• I empower myself to move beyond my place of overwhelm.

Start to adjust your thinking and your lifestyle to your new vision of personal power. You’ll be amazed at the impact it will have on your life and your success!

I would love to hear from you – please share with us how your are embracing your personal power by posting a comment on my blog.