The Gifts of Standing in Your Power

Are there days when you don't have all the confidence and focus you need to achieve your goals? If so, I'm going to assert that it's because you're not standing in all of your power. But what if you knew in your heart that a bountiful treasure of the deepest and most personal gifts (including confidence, productivity and self-esteem) were well within your reach? Would you make the courageous choice to please yourself, rather than seek the approval of others?

As we explored last week, every time we step over our truth in order to please someone else, we diminish our essential connection with ourselves and deepen the voice of self-doubt - tearing away at our self-confidence and self-esteem. And the impact doesn't stop with us. We may think that by helping others we're being good to them or protecting them in some way. For example, how many times have you "helped" your children, when what they really needed was to take more responsibility? The moment we relinquish our power to please another, we disempower them as well. Standing in our power not only allows us to evolve and grow, but it supports those around us in evolving and growing too. When we are willing to take risks, to step outside of our conditioned beliefs and behaviors, become comfortable with confrontation, and tell the truth about who we are and what we want (even if it disappoints someone else), a whole new world opens up.

The way into this new world can be so simple - and so sweet. When you're willing to listen to your own voice and trust yourself enough to follow your heart, you encounter your true power - a power marked by courage and vulnerability. Any moment you offer a whole-hearted "Yes!" to your own truth, you are infused with the power, self-worth, self-respect, self-esteem and confidence that will give wings to the best year of your life.

Take Action Now!

With an attitude of kindness and gentleness toward yourself, practice standing in your power this week when life presents you with the following opportunities:

Someone asks you to do something that you don't want to do -

Simply say, "I'm very sorry, but I can't. How can I support you in getting that done without me?"

You see that you're seeking someone else's love -

Ask youself, "What can I do right now to love myself? What can I do, or what can I tell myself, that would leave me feeling so filled up inside?"