⚡ Power ⚡
Power is not something you are born with, it can be learned. Power is being true to yourself and knowing what you want. Power is saying what you mean without remorse.
Power is owning when you are wrong and standing up for what is right. Power is doing the right thing with courage. Power is strong yet playful. Power is the ability to be dangerous.
Power is not about “being an asshole”, but sometimes it can look that way.
This shouldn’t bother you. If you’re always trying to do the right thing and you’re not putting other people’s needs above your own, you are bound to get a few haters along the way.
It’s the price of power. And it’s absolutely worth it.
Four Power Questions to Reclaim your Power
Not achieving the results you want? These 4 questions may reveal why.
1. Have I allocated the necessary space and time to complete the task?
If not, what can I eliminate to makes space for it? Life is all about choices. It's no mystery that some of the busiest people also accomplish great feats. Thousands of single mothers still find the time to achieve their goals. If I want to know what's important to you, all I need to do is look at your calendar (or your bank account).
2. Do I possess the necessary knowledge, prerequisites, or resources to complete the next HIT?
HIT = High Impact Task. It's the next thing you need to do to move your project forward.
POWER by Werner Erhard (March 21, 1983)
Your power is a function of velocity, that is to say, your power is a function of the rate at which you translate intention into reality. Most of us disempower ourselves by finding a way to slow, impede, or make more complex than necessary the process of translating intention into reality.
There are two factors worth examining in our impairing velocity, in our disempowering ourselves.
The first is the domain of reasonableness. When we deal with our intentions or act to realize our intentions from reasonableness, we are in the realm of slow, impede and complicate. When we are oriented around the story or the narrative, the explanations, the justifications, we are oriented around that in which there is no velocity, no power.
Results are black and white. In life, one either has results (one’s intentions realized) or one has the reason, story, explanations, and justifications. The person of power does not deal in explanations. This way of being might be termed management by results (not management for results but management by results). The person of power manages him or herself by results and creates a space or mood of results in which to interact with others.
The other factor to be addressed is time. Now never seems to be the right time to act. The right time is always in the future. Usually this appears in the guise of "after I (or we) do so and so, then it will be the right time to act"; or “after so and so occurs, then it will be the right time to act”; or "when so and so occurs, then it will be the right time to act." The guise includes "gathering all the facts," "getting the plan down," "figuring out ‘X’," "getting ready," etc.
Since now is the only time you have in reality and now will never seem to be the right time to act, one may as well act now. Even though "it isn’t the right time," given that the "right time" will never come, acting now is, at the least, powerful (even if you don’t get to be right). Most people wait for the decisive moment, whereas people of power are decisive in the moment.
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