SELF-EMPOWERMENT INSTITUTE

Meeting With Yourself is an Absolute to Gain Clarity and Empower Yourself

You have no chance to consistently be the captain your life if you don’t take time out regularly to meet with yourself. These are moments when you can:

-           assess your beliefs and values,

-           become clear about your desires, your emotions, and your intentions, and

-           answer the following questions: what is my vision? and what is the meaning of my life?

I like to use the example of firefighters. This is a profession that is, quite rightly, highly regarded within our communities. However, what most of us don’t appreciate, is the amount of time firefighters spend at the Firehouse and how precious this time is for the remarkable job that they do on the fire-ground.

At the firehouse, firefighters spend their time inspecting their equipment to ensure that they are always in good condition; they run practice sessions to learn new technics and they spend lot of time on group bonding exercises to ensure that they operate as one team on the fire-ground. By the time they are on the fire-ground, firefighters know precisely what is expected of them and operate with great discipline. They have great clarity about their mission.

In our busy lives, most of us feel like firefighters trying to put out fires that break from every corner of our existence. So here is my question to you: If you really feel like constantly firefighting, how much time do you spend at the firehouse? Are you clear about which fire to put out first? Which equipment do you need? You can properly answer these questions only at the firehouse, not on the fire-ground.

You are the firefighter; the fire-ground is your workplace, your household, your community, etc..; the fires are the multiple demands that you juggle with such as an important project that you are working on at work, or a broken relationship that you try to repair with your children or your spouse; the firehouse is the space where you come to meet with yourself and be prepared to be effective on the fire-ground.

During your firehouse time, ask yourself questions to seek clarity again and again: Who am I? If my life ended today, how would I be remembered? What impact do I have on the life of people around me? Set priorities that are aligned with your purpose and build a strategy and action plan to be effective on the fire-ground.

Meeting with yourself is an absolute to gain clarity and empower yourself. It is during that time that you prepare yourself for all the other steps of the Self-Empowerment strategy.

 - Max

P.S.: Students of the Self-Empowerment Institute receive effective tools to make the most of the time they spend with themselves. Through their regular practice they gain more clarity, become more self-disciplined and accelerate their growth