If you're still on the fence about reclaiming your inner power (or you're thinking taking on your power is "selfish"), think about this. Power not only helps you live a better life, it enables you to better help others too.
1. Three ways it helps you
You can stand up for what you're truly worth, what you truly value, and who you truly are. When you're secure in your own power, for instance, you are more secure in negotiating in the workplace for the value of your skill. You feel more comfortable keeping it on your radar to track what you're worth in a competitive market, and to work with your employer for a win-win that ensures your compensation is really tracking with what you're worth. If you're a talented professional, you owe it to yourself, i.e. "the business that is you", to make sure you are getting top dollar for your excellent work. Contrast that with feeling powerless no matter how talented you are, fearing you have to keep your head down and simply accept what you're given so that you don't rock the boat or make waves, even if that's much less than you're worth.
You can get out of bad, toxic, or destructive situations faster. When you feel powerful even a little, you're far more likely to exit a bad situation than if you feel worthless, powerless, or that you'd rather stay in the situation than face the unknown (even if the unknown would be better than what you've got). When you can wisely, gently, and securely exit a bad situation, you can save YEARS of your life that you might otherwise have spent hoping or wishing it would get better.
You can create real happiness, peace, and prosperity in your life. When you feel powerful, that power core of yours is good and active all the time. You wake up interested in life, knowing you have phenomenal coping skills and can deal with whatever comes your way, and knowing that you are the one creating what's around you. Rather than living a proactive life of worrying, repeatedly waking up anxious, stressed, or in fear, having your good nature taken advantage of, or letting others' drama yank you around, you come from a position of strength, naturally and every day.
2. Three ways it helps you help others.
You're able to hold space when others need you. This type of non-prescriptive listening (i.e. deep listening that doesn't try to fix things) is a HUGE craving today in a life where we rarely feel heard. When you're secure in your own power, you're able to come from a deeply stable emotional center. You can hold space as the calm individual in a crisis, creating a strong, secure, safe and stable arena in which a friend or colleague in distress such as frustration or anger can be heard, understood, and begin to realize they can find the answers from within. (To imagine holding space, think of a time when you really, seriously needed to vent and just needed a wise friend to listen deeply, without trying to tell you you were wrong or trying to explain it away, until your venting ran out and better solutions began to occur to you on your own. Your friend is the one who's holding space.)
You're a role model for expansiveness. When you model strong behaviors such as wise boundaries, standing up for your own value, managing opportunities as win-win, looking for expansive growth in life, even you simply doing this is an inspiration to the people around you. To imagine this, think of someone who's one of YOUR role models in showing you there's far more to life than you've dreamed.
You're able to improve the world, even in small ways. Being powerful means you value yourself, and when you do that, you begin to help others find their value too. Your decisions in the workplace, among your friends and colleagues, and in your professional or entrepreneurial groups will reflect this new dimension of your inner knowing as you begin to come from a place of wisdom and security.
"When you model wise boundaries, standing up for your own value, managing opportunities as win-win, looking for expansive growth in life, even you simply doing this is an inspiration to the people around you." Click to tweet.
Extra Credit: Can you think of three more ways being powerful will help YOU and help you HELP OTHERS?
Let smallness go today, and believe you are powerful.
Keep Growing,
