Based on a podcast by Shane Krider
How to own your power – seems like such an easy concept. But this is how I can frame it up in my own experience to try and show you how it can exists in your own life.
I was struggling financially becauseI couldn’t handle my finances. But eventually what I realized was it’s never about the money. You think it is, but it isn’t. I was earning $35K/yr working 80hrs a week and it wasn’t enough to take care of my family and our basic needs. I thought if I could be one of those people who made $100K/yr then I would feel like I was ‘owning my power’.
But after interviewing over 10,000 people of wannabe entrepreneurs, I figured out it’s always the same story. People are just looking to move to the next category of income to claim that are owning their power. People making $200K are looking at people who are earning $750K they’re owning their power. The cycle is never ending until you own your power!
Owning your power is something different than obtaining that next category leap. It’s a way of being, of perceiving yourself and seeing yourself as a creative force that has the ability design and live your extraordinary life.
You can create an amazing existence with these six points that will definitely move you in the right direction.
- Make a list of all the reasons of why you can’t
Sometimes the most basic life circumstances that don’t seem bad can hold you prisoner and overcoming those average obstacles is the hardest thing to do because you don’t have any motivation to get you out of there. Call them for what they are – excuses.
That’s the first step. You deserve to acknowledge that which is holding you back, label them as excuses and target them as the enemy and systematically destroy them. Or they will always take your power.
2. Act as if you can succeed
Act as if you can create your life. This is the rubber hitting the road. ACT AS IF YOU CAN. For me – I was pissed off and sick and tired, and could only see my life getting worse. I wanted to be an entrepreneur but there was so much I didn’t know, like the logistical business acumen required to start. Let me tell you, if you need to know it, you learn it as you go. It was an excuse, so I went ahead and did it anyway. Just get out there and do it.
- You will find what you already know is out there
The trick of the mind is: whatever you believe exists, is what you will find. Pre existing beliefs are more influencing than you can imagine. Nothing is real to us, until we see it is real to somebody else. So take on the beliefs that are win-win and take you where you want to go. What a fun journey to be on!
- Get over the cop out
What does that mean? Essentially, it means ‘I can’t.’ The difference between successful people and those who don’t make it is they pick themselves up one more time to achieve the goal. Just do it! Make moves NOW.
- Confront the negative messaging in your life
You hear negative messaging in everything you read / hear, even when you’re unaware. It has an effect on what you allow yourself to become. Whatever category you put yourself in, don’t align yourself with a perceived persona to adhere to media messaging.
- Hold open the option of possibility
Cling to the possibility you can create your most extraordinary life and hold that opportunity open. Reality will test you – amidst it’s insanity – you must frame it up differently and kept that possibility open. This is a story to tell yourself to stay on track. True or not true you will benefit from the story. It works. Hold the opportunity open.
Adhere to these steps and you will achieve what you seek in your life. How do you own your power? Take control in the moment with best attitude, and these six steps are a good way to utilize it and implement daily.
Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.