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Article Series: Empowerment
I Want To Feel More Empowered...NOW
From
Disempowerment To Empowerment
With These 3 Tips
When it comes to making decisions, a chronic
sense of disempowerment often results in feelings of helplessness
or hopelessness that can affect the choices you make and determine
your quality of life.
When
you live your life as a disempowered person, you often
feel like the majority of your life experiences are out
of
your control. You allow other people or events to determine
what you think, say and do; how you spend your time, and even
the general direction your life takes.
Transitioning from disempowerment to empowerment is a simple
matter of realizing that few things are truly out of your control
when you exercise your right to choose.
Are you ready: YES / NO ?
Below you’ll find three tips for building a stronger sense
of empowerment through conscious choice:
1.
Realize that you always have choices
It’s easy to feel like you’re powerless in certain circumstances,
but powerlessness is most often a perception, not a fact. Even
if you’re incapable of physically altering a situation, you
at least have the power to choose your outlook, attitude and
reaction to the things that happen to you.
More often when you believe you have no choices, you’re really
saying that you don’t like the choices you do have. But that’s
very different than not having choices at all! When you affirm
that you have no options, you contribute to a sense of powerlessness
that can cause you to act in destructive ways rather than seeking
a more balanced solution.
Do you feel powerless sometimes? How will you change that: ____________________.
2.
You are not responsible for anyone else’s happiness
Have people in your life ever made you feel like you have
to go along with their decisions in order to keep peace? This
is common in controlling relationships, but even healthy relationships
can experience decision-related conflicts.
True empowerment is having the strength to make the decisions
that are right for you, even if others don’t always agree with
them. When other people will be affected by your decisions
it’s a good idea to work cooperatively with them, but you may
also be tempted to allow others to influence decisions that
involve only yourself. Most often this is done in an attempt
to avoid conflict or disagreement, but it doesn’t serve you
in the long run. When it comes right down to it, you are not
responsible for keeping anyone happy other than yourself, and
you can empower yourself to make the choices that are right
for you – regardless of what others may say or think about
them.
What important choices are right for you in your life now: ____________________.
3.
You are in charge of your own happiness
Just as you are not responsible for others’ happiness, neither
are they responsible for yours! Disempowerment can often make
you believe that you are reliant on the words or actions of
others for your sense of happiness and contentment, but this
type of attitude only keeps you stuck in feelings of helplessness.
Instead, use your power of choice to do the things that will
make you happy. These decisions might relate to your work,
residence, relationships and more – and they may not be easy
decisions to follow through on.
What will make you happy: ____________________.
What choices and decisions can you make right now to feel empowered: ____________________.
However, just knowing that you have to make the choices that
are right for you or live forever dissatisfied is usually enough
to provide the courage to affect positive change.
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by SolveYourProblem.com
: 2008
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