Each and every one of us have the power to make a difference.

We are powerful beyond measure.

You may not be able to change your spouse. Your parents. Your friends. Or your boss.

But what you can change is yourself.

This is the ultimate power. The ability to change you.

By changing yourself you will have an impact on those around you. By changing yourself you change your world, and in doing making a difference.

In order to truly lead others you must first be able to lead yourself.

This is the power that no one can take from you. This is what you are in control of.

Part of owning your power is to take full responsibility for YOUR life. Sometimes trying to get another person or thing to change seems easier, as it diverts the attention away from what you most need to change in yourself.

Responsibility can be a scary thing at times. Once you own this, there are no longer any excuses. Victimhood is no longer an option.

If you want to do your part in making a difference on the planet. Start by taking inventory. Take an honest look at your life, and acknowledge where you are not living in alignment. Be truthful about where you are not living in integrity. Also, acknowledge the patterns, addictions, behaviors, that no longer serve you and stop you from being your highest self.

Perhaps it’s an addiction to a drug, an unhealthy pattern, such as drama, lying, manipulating, fear, or critical self judgement. Or to an abusive relationship. Perhaps your house is a mess, or your finances.

What is it that you need to shift?  What is it that you need to let go of? What is it that you need to embrace more of and love about you? What is it in yourself or your life that you have the power to change?

You may not be able to change what is outside, but you can definetly change what is inside yourself. You may not be president of your country, but you are president of your life.

It is great to protest for peace in the streets. But let us remember to bring peace and compassion to the dark places we despise within ourselves. It is great to clean up the environment, but let us also clean up our consciousness, and our toxic thoughts.

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“It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities”

– J. K. Rowling

“Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.”

– Nathaniel Branden

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

– Viktor Frankl, was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor.