Nix Negativity
Living life more powerfully requires a shift in how we view ourselves, how we view our lives, and the actions we choose to take or not take!
It’s important, especially in challenging times, to be complete with where you have been, in tune with who you are committed to being, clear about where you are going, and powerfully unstoppable in your own behalf! Yes, I do realize that might sound impossible, but it isn't! Please read on...
We talk a lot about others needing to be held accountable. However, it is time for us to take a good hard look inward and take on accountability ourselves. We have to stop pointing our fingers at the world! You see, no one can be powerful and unstoppable for you, but YOU. No one can be in action for you, but YOU. No one can be more committed to having the life you say you want than YOU! Does this mean that everything will always be all rosy? No. However, the way in which you approach every single aspect of your life (by being either positive or negative in your thinking) affects your view and the eventual outcome of your life.
Steps for Reclaiming Your Power and Nixing Negativity
Step 1: Reclaim Your Power – Be Complete
With so much negativity around us, it is hard not to be present to our missed goals. Yet, when we allow such negativity to infiltrate our being, it overpowers the great things we have (and have accomplished) in our lives too! If you want to get back to living powerfully, you've got to ditch the negatives and get present to the positives! So, get complete with where you’ve been and get present to how great you are. I strongly recommend you write yourself a letter that acknowledges your accomplishments, and don't just look for the positives in the realm of finances, but also consider what you've done to make a difference for another; the love you've given your children; the awesome garden you grew; your mastery of cooking; or the joy you now get from taking time to do nothing! No accomplishment or positive in your life is too small to celebrate!
How does this exercise serve you? When you are down on yourself for what you haven’t accomplished, you can’t be powerful anywhere… for anything, for anybody, and especially not in your own behalf. So, instead of being negative, you need to give yourself credit for what you have accomplished and what you do have. When you do so, you instantly create a whole new, POSITIVE way of thinking.
Step 2: Know Where You are Going
Create a plan for what you want to accomplish moving forward. Without a plan, negativity will take you over each and every time! Only you have a say in how your life turns out, and if you don’t have a written plan that verbalizes what your “say” is, chances are it won’t happen.
Step 3: Commitment… Believing in You
Making a commitment to be more powerful in your own behalf boils down to this: YOU choose every day, every minute, whether to use your power in a positive way, or not. YOU choose to act consistent with your power, or not. YOU choose to be the predominant creative power in your life, or to shrink in negative emotions. It is up to YOU to CHOOSE to commit to being powerful in your own behalf. No one else can do it for you.
Step 4: Build Your Team
In order to be as powerful as you can be, you need a team. You need a team of people who support you; who know what you want; who you are willing to ask to hold you accountable, and who aren’t afraid to hold you accountable.
Remember: If you could get to where you are going by yourself, you’d be there already!
Step 5: Choose to Be Unstoppable
Never give up, never give up, never give up! Life will always be full of ups and downs, but the key to not getting caught up in negativity, and instead being powerful in your own behalf, is to stay present to your power! You can stay present to your power by being present to what you DO have and what you HAVE accomplished, having a plan, and being committed to not only your plan but to an unstoppable and positive way of being.
So my challenge to you is to:
Get present to your power… and use it wisely!
Know what you want and have a plan for getting it!
Teach others how to use their power wisely too!