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Soul’s Purpose and Empowerment: Inner Peace and Power [Be a Rockstar]

MAIN POINTS:

1. Inner peace is a state of being at peace with yourself, your life and your surroundings. It brings you calm despite any storm.

2. Spiritual practices have proven to benefit both mental and physical health as well as bring you inner peace. In turn, this brings you clarity and empowerment.

3. You can achieve inner peace by meditation, reflection, self-love, kindness to others/yourself, laughter, gratitude, living in the present and letting go of any outside influence.

4. All this is part of self-care. It’s empowering and energizing to take care of yourself. This looks differently for different people but filling your cup helps you see more clearly.

5. Inner peace doesn’t happen overnight and can take a lot of work, but it will be worth it in the end because of how empowering it is.

TRY THIS: Try different self-care practices, including spiritual ones, to see what helps you disconnect and bring you inner peace. Keep doing it.

POST IT NOTE: I will achieve inner peace

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Internalizing Empowerment: Needs, Wants & Power

MAIN POINTS:

1. Your needs are limited, essential, immediate however your wants can be unlimited, non-essential and future. We all have needs and wants, but what differs when it comes to empowerment is where you focus your attention.

2. An empowered person can balance both wants and needs giving them each their proper place. For example, they focus their main core energy on needs and use wants as a goal post for where they want to be.

3. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs discusses humans’ “needs” as a precursor of pursuing “wants”. At the bottom of his pyramid are physiological needs (eating, etc). Then safety needs. Then come social, self-esteem and self-actualization.

4. Some examples of needs vs wants: buying cloths is a need, buying a designer purse is a want; packing a lunch meets your needs while buying lunch everyday is more of a want; wanting to meet someone who has similar family values is a need while wanting someone who comes from royalty is a want.

5. Living a grateful life helps you focus on your needs rather than your wants. Being happy and grateful where you are at will open doors to the things you want. Focusing on wants too much takes away your power because you are not in a realistic realm.

TRY THIS: Write down your life goals and put them in two categories, need to have and want to have. Focus your energy on the need to have and look at the want to have as a bonus.

POST IT NOTE: I will focus on my authentic needs

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Internalizing Empowerment: Free Will & Power

MAIN POINTS:

1. Free will is the freedom and ability to act the way you choose without any impediments. This does have moral, ethical and societal implications, however.

2. We must accept responsibility for our thoughts and actions. This is empowerment. When we take full control of ourselves, we can make the best choices for ourselves without the influence or validation of others.

3. While free will can mean the ability to choose, freedom of choice means possibility to choose. Some people, for various reasons, cannot choose what is happening to them but they CAN choose what they do with it.

4. When approached with a challenging situation, we can either approach it with gratitude for the learning opportunity or approach it as a victim with full pity party regalia. That is our free will. This is one of the ways we work to define and empower ourselves.

5. In the world of psychology, the concept of “free will” is still up for discussion, most will say that human behavior is determined by influences within or outside themselves. That would mean that regardless of our free will, we can’t help but be influenced by our circumstances. Nevertheless, it’s up to you what you do with it.

TRY THIS: Use your free will to choose approaching all situations and thoughts from an empowerment angle, while not everything is within our control our thoughts are.

POST IT NOTE: I will use my free will to choose good

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Internalizing Empowerment: Your Thoughts & Power

MAIN POINTS:

1. Countless thoughts go through our minds on a single day. These thoughts have the power to empower you or drag you down an endless rabbit hole.

2. Once you are able to “control” your thoughts then you will be in better shape to control your life and all the experiences that you encounter. You can do this by taking a deep breath and focusing on the moment.

3. Recognize what events trigger negative or hurtful thoughts and work on it with a professional or a trusted friend because these thoughts take away your power and hold you back.

4. Accept that you cannot control everything, that life happens, that you make mistakes and that every life event can be a learning opportunity for your good. Keep moving forward. Stop overthinking about things out of your control.

5. Starting each day with an affirmation will put you in the right frame of mind for the day. Likewise, ending your day with gratitude will help close the loop on the day and will help you sleep better without overthinking.

TRY THIS: If you have many negative thoughts, take up meditative practices to help you focus on more helpful thoughts rather than hurtful ones. Journaling can help as well.

POST IT NOTE: I will match my thinking to my desires

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MAIN POINTS:

1. Motivation is that power that makes you do the “stuff” that you need or want to do. It is your driving force.

2. Every person has different motivators in their life and it is something very personal. You have to be aware of what motivates you and use it to your benefit. This will empower you.

3. Being self-motivated helps you keep going regardless of set-backs, to take advantage of opportunities, and to be committed to your goals.

4. Self-motivation equals control and power. When you are able to do this effectively, you are empowered to do and be better.

5. Your daily affirmations will help motivate you to reach your goals. Gratitude helps you appreciate each experience so you avoid being demotivated.

TRY THIS: Start each day with a specific affirmation that will help you get through the challenges of your day. End your day with gratitude for each experience.

POST IT NOTE: I will be motivated to empower myself

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MAIN POINTS:

1. Defining yourself starts with knowing who you are, confidently knowing what you stand for, being away of your beliefs, your values and what you stand for.

2. Many of us define ourselves by our relationship status, by what others think of us, by what we see in the mirror as well as by our past and this only takes away your power.

3. Empowering yourself begins with being able to define yourself truthfully using factual statements. Even the experiences you perceive as negative tell you something honest about yourself.

4. Growth means evolving yourself where you are at in your life and making the best of each experience. This is how you take your power back.

5. Being grateful plays a big part in this because when you are grateful for every experience you embrace it full as being a part of you.

TRY THIS: Reflect on how you define yourself. In your journal write what words come to mind when you think of yourself and why.

POST IT NOTE: I will define myself positively

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Life Empowerment Coaching with Suzie online @ www.DivaOfLove.com

MAIN POINTS:

1. Living your truth, admitting your truth takes you a long way and results in your empowerment.

2. Living your truth means fully embracing yourself as a person in the most authentic way possible.

3. Answering truth statements such as “the real reason I am not happy or I’m single or I don’t reach my goals, etc is …” factually will help you get to the core of why you are not where you want to be.

4. It is only by being truthful with yourself that you can grow and move beyond the things that are holding you back.

5. Journaling will help you recognize trends and it is an important way to truly embrace your truth.

TRY THIS: Answer your truth statements about those things that you feel are holding you back by journaling.

POST IT NOTE: I will be true to myself

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MAIN POINTS:

1. Acceptance has three facets – self-acceptance, acceptance of others and acceptance of a situation.

2. When you accept yourself as you realistically are. You see your imperfections, recognize and accept where you are at in your life, and then seek out ways to do better and be better.

3. Accepting others is about looking for the positive in them instead of the negative. It is about understanding them according to their world-view rather than yours.

4. Accepting and appreciating your current reality will bring you peace and help you understand it better. Once you have a clearer vision, you can create the life you desire.

5. Personal empowerment is rooted in acceptance in all forms because you stop focusing on the “shoulds” and you focus more on creating the life you want by using your reality for your own good.

TRY THIS: Write down all the things you do not like about yourself and why. Now write down the same things but reflect on how they can serve you positively and how you can use them.

POST IT NOTE: I will accept and embrace my reality

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Accountability and Power [Be a Rockstar]

MAIN POINTS:

1. Accountability is essentially taking responsibility for your thoughts, actions and words. It is owning your behavior.

2. However, accountability is not only taking the blame it is about being responsible for a commitment to do better and be better.

3. Personal accountability includes empowering yourself by acknowledging the role that you play in your own life’s journey – the good, the bad, and the ugly. You are not a victim of your circumstances; you are in the lead role!

4. Journaling helps you break down your actions each day, learning from your experiences and being grateful for them. Affirmations help you make

5. Being an accountable person is empowering because it demonstrates that you are open and willing to continuously grow and learn, to be better and do better.

TRY THIS: Take accountability for a bad choice in your past. What can you do to learn from it and make amends?

POST IT NOTE: I will be accountable for my actions

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Perception and Power [Be a Rockstar]

MAIN POINTS:

1. Perception   is the way you see, understand, or interpret something which is typically   based on your world-view, experiences and feelings. It is how we view our   reality and often influences our thoughts and actions.

2. Each   person’s perceptions are different. Each of us sees the world in our own way.   This is why it is important to clarify your perceptions and compare them with   other people’s realities to get the true picture.

3. When   something you perceived dominates your feelings about a person or situations,   take a step back and ask questions, looking at the situation objectively.

4. Expressing   gratitude bring power to perception because it helps us focus on what is real   and tangible in our life and shifts our perspective of all events in our   life.

5. Becoming   aware of our perceptions versus reality makes us better communicators and   empowers us. By contrast, relying only on our perceptions gives them your   power.

TRY THIS: Look at an   interpersonal situation in your life that you are not happy about, then take   note of your perspective, then look at it from different perspective.

POST IT NOTE: I will   change my perspective

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