What I call the “personal power outage”
Feeling powerless to make changes and take chances is the other big cause of not getting the things you want in your life. Belief in yourself is the most important part of this equation. So many of us have personal power outages because we’ve gone through life never acknowledging all of the amazing things that we’ve done. We’re so busy looking at what we need to accomplish that we ignore everything that we have accomplished.
Do you know what I call this? Emotional Anorexia. You are starving yourself of your own validation and approval and expecting yourself to move forward in life without the fuel of positive reinforcement. This is a very insidious form of self sabotage. Of course you don’t think you can accomplish anything, because you haven’t acknowledged what you have accomplished. You’re too busy looking ahead that you forget to look back. You must look back and let yourself feel good about all that you have done.
One of the things I love about Coaching is that it leads people straight to their personal power. Kind of like the Yellow Brick Road, but a bit more direct.
Did you know there is a coaching scene in The Wizard of Oz?
Toward the end of the film when Dorothy finally gets the ruby slippers back from the wicked witch and she’s desperate to get out of OZ and go back to Kansas she pleads with Glenda;
Can you help me, will you help me?
My dear, you don’t need my help, you’ve always had the power to go back home.
Always? Then why didn’t you tell me before?
Because you never would have believed me, you had to learn it on your own.
You have the power now and you had it all along. You have only chosen not to see it. Look at everything you’ve done and accomplished in your life. Let yourself acknowledge that and be proud of it. Don’t forget to look back once in a while. Take it in, take a deep breath and own what you’ve accomplished. That’s the power that will take you where you want to go.
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