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📆 Daily Issue 93 | ⏱️ Read time: 2 min

Surrendering to Personal Power: Owning Your Journey to Strength and Influence

This morning after boxing class, I left with one thought:

I want to be more powerful.

Not powerful over other people, but powerful over myself.

I want to fully own my life experience. I want to fully own my time. And I want to fully own who I am capable of becoming.

I think people associate power with malice and injustice. But in my experience, it’s the exact opposite.

It's the people without power who become desperate. It's weak men and women who inflict pain on others to feel superiority. It's people who perceive themselves as victims who destroy their own lives and consequently the lives of everyone around them.

Personal power, when combined with strong values and character, allows you to change your life and change the world.

Personal power allows you to become someone you are proud of.

Personal power allows you to hold your head up high.

As I walked to my car from the boxing class, I reflected on the part of me that feels safe being weak…

But being weak has destroyed me.

Being weak has caused me to reach for power in toxic ways.

Being weak has caused me to outsource all of my decisions and have an external locus of control.

Being weak has caused me to shy away from the challenges and habit changes that have the potential to change our lives.

We are all scared of power, because on a subconscious level, we feel that people around us are threatened by empowerment. We feel their judgment on a sub-perceptual level and it makes us want to shrink to obtain their approval. We would rather be accepted than be strong. We would rather be part of the pack than embark on our own path.

But no man has changed the world without feeling empowered to do so.

So we must resist the urge to be liked and accepted, and instead accept the part of ourselves that wants to stand up, make decisions, and be fully seen.

You came here to be powerful. You came here to leave your mark. You came here to make a difference.

Never doubt yourself. And never stop holding your head high.

Keep inspiring,

Nicole