Eight distinctions for a powerful life

INTEGRITY: Being whole and complete. Honoring your word by giving your word to what you are willing to do beyond the circumstances of what happened.

RACKET FREE: Give up being right.

BEING POWERFUL: Be straight in your communication and take what you get.

BEING COURAGEOUS: Acknowledge your fear and then act. Authentic fear is when the threat is eminent and towards your physical well-being. Inauthentic fear is fear that is imagined and a fear based on the past.

BEING PEACEFUL: Give up the interpretation “there is something wrong here.”

BEING CHARISMATIC: Give up “in order to” and trying to get somewhere.

BEING ENROLLING: Share your new possibility in such a way that they are left touched, moved and inspired by that possibility.

BEING UN-REASONABLE: Choosing what is so and living such that the reasons of your past do not effect how you are living in the future.

RESPONSIBILITY

Responsibility begins with the willingness to be cause in the matter of one’s life. Ultimately, it is a context from which one chooses to live.

Responsibility is not a burden, fault, praise, blame, credit, shame or guilt. In responsibility, there is no evaluation of good or bad, right or wrong. There is simply what’s so, and your stand.

Being responsible starts with the willingness to deal with a situation from the view of life that you are the generator of what you do, what you have and what you are. That is not the truth. It is a place to stand.

No one can make you responsible, nor can you impose responsibility on another. It is a grace you give yourself – an empowering context that leaves you with a say in the matter of life.