This year I want to feel powerful.

Every year I choose a couple of words to serve as my “theme”. It has been a simple and effective tool to keep me on track. In 2011 I chose “Love & Magic”…that year I met The Handsome Sweetheart and we’ve been making magic together ever since. 🙂

This year as I took some time to choose my theme, I decided to choose words that expressed how I want to feel this year. Instead of a couple of words I had FIVE words pop up for me. They all seemed important, none of them wanted to be left out, so I adopted them all. The first word was “powerful”. And when I talk about feeling powerful, I’m talking about personal power.

I will explain what it is to have personal power, but first – what it isn’t.

Having personal power is NOT having power over others.

It will allow you to have power with others.

Personal power is not attached to anything outside of yourself. It is not a result of having a title, or having wealth, or vibrant health, or being married to someone powerful, or being famous, or earning a degree. Those things might come as a result of personal power, but when you’ve really tapped into your own personal power, losing those things will not diminish it. This power is yours. It comes from within you, not from outside of you.

And it makes you incredibly attractive. If you are wanting to create an amazing life full of wonderful people and opportunities, developing your personal power is the place to begin.

So, here’s a secret to developing your personal power…and it’s actually pretty simple.

Do what you say you’re going to do.

That’s it. That is how you start developing personal power.

Personal power is a result of active integrity. Basically that means that when you say you’re going to do something, you do it. If you say you’ll call, you call. If you say you’ll be to the meeting by 7:00, you’re  there by 7:00.

This not only builds your own personal power, it builds trust.

You can totally begin setting yourself up for success by practicing this one thing.

And if you forget to do something you said you would do…own it. Make it right. It might sound like this: “Hey there, I apologize. I said I would call and I dropped the ball. I totally forgot. I take full responsibility for missing the boat on that one. Let’s try again. When would be a good time to call you this week.” <—(THEN CALL ON TIME.)

Everyone makes a mistake once in a while. Sometimes things come up that are out of our control. We all forget occasionally. We’re human.

Having personal power does not mean you’ll never change your mind, or make a mistake, or forget an appointment. But it does mean that when those things happen, powerful you will be big enough (and vulnerable enough) to correct course quickly.

To be a powerful human we own our mistakes, we make amends, we have integrity, we do what we say we’re going to do.

How would it feel to find your personal power this year?

What other feelings would you like to experience?  Do you have a ritual of choosing a theme or a word for the year? Let me know in the comments below and I may just write a post dealing with some helpful tips for getting there!

Love & Magic,

P.S. If you’d like some help and support creating your reality this year, check out how we can work together. I’d love to support you!