Empower Your YOUniqueness
Empowerment: to give power or authority to …
Giving power to who you are is one of the best and most freeing things you can do.
Do you have a memory (or not) of when you stood so strongly and confidently in who you are and what you had to say? Was it a time when you didn’t “worry” about what anybody thought or what their opinion was? It feels great, doesn’t it? Wouldn’t it BE great to BE this way all of the time?
I recently read a book called This Thing Called You by Ernest Holmes. In fact, it speaks so much to what I know and believe that I read it in its entirety (writing in the margins and highlighting with my yellow marker!) on my recent flight back from my Leadership Retreat in California.
Ernest Holmes says “Every blade of grass, every crystal, every drop of water, like every individual, is a little different from any other one of its species. You are to believe with utmost simplicity and with complete faith that there is a pattern of your being, or a real spirit of you.”
What is your YOUniqueness? What is your spirit? Wouldn’t it be empowering to stand strongly in WHO YOU ARE? There is no other individual alive on this planet that is like you. You are different from any other person who ever lived. Stand powerfully in the joy and YOUniqueness of ‘this thing called you.’
Are you still trying to discover WHO you are? Look back to when you were a child. What did you love to do? How did you spend your time? In your life now, what do people compliment you on? What is your special knack? What would your life be like if you stopped trying to please others and pleased yourself?
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are poawerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who Am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
Go out today and be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous!! Celebrate, make BIG and empower this thing called YOU!!
Ideas for finding your YOUniqueness:
- Gather old pictures of yourself and create a collage. Look for a theme to help identify your essence of WHO YOU ARE.
- Ask a few of your closest friends to give you feedback of who they see you as—sometimes we have blindspots.
- Make a list of your gifts and find a way to express them ie. take a dance class, join a choir, ask for a promotion.
- Create an affirmation for yourself—Ernest Holmes says “The prayer of power is an affirmation so completely believed in that there is no longer any conscious or subconscious denial of it.”
Example of an affirmation:
There is nothing in me that hinders the Spirit from manifesting Itself through me in joy, happiness and peace.
It is the law of my life that wherever I go I shall meet with joy, with love, friendship, gratitude, compensation—with a complete opportunity for the expression of every talent and ability I possess.
Every door is open.
Nothing can go forth from me but goodness, truth, love, kindness; therefore, nothing less than goodness can come back to me.
Here’s to your YOUniqueness!
Linda Wisler Luft
Your Fireball Coach and Consultant
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