Take Back Your Self Empowerment

By Sheri Falcone

Have you gone through periods of your life when you felt helpless and hopeless about your circumstances and destiny? I believe we all have.

Many of us have experienced the tragedy of physical or emotional abuse, broken relationships or the death of loved ones. The first thing we want to do is blame others or outside influences for our state of mind, financial stresses, relationship stresses or just life.

It's so easy to blame the abusive person or the person who broke our hearts for destroying our ability to love or trust again. You're placing on others the responsibility of your life, your emotions, your self worth, and happiness. However, blame is the easy way out and is a very disempowering emotion.

When we are thinking of making changes in our lives, we have a tendency to look externally. We think if we change our outsides, then we will be happy. We are waiting for the circumstances to change before we can be happy. However, true happiness comes from inside out; taking control of our own lives, being responsible for our own emotions, making the right choices for us.

The simple choice of taking responsibility for your self and life is the first step towards picking up the pieces of your life and starting over. When you focus your attention on making positive changes in your life, the constraints of the past are removed and you can be, do or have anything you desire. The power of deliberate positive thoughts will literally change your reality.

True empowerment is not just about taking control, fighting injustices or passing new laws that we think society needs to change the world. Empowerment starts within us first. It begins with our willingness and acceptance to be responsible for what is happening in our own lives.

I'm sure at some point in our life; we are all face with challenges and adversity. Some of us want to point the finger at others or outside situations, while others own their responsibility, making necessary changes to grow and learn from those challenges and get on with our lives. The sooner we realize this lesson, the sooner we will find life happier and with less stress. The way we handle our pain and these challenges and let it transform us makes the difference between winning and losing life's battles. The realization of this and the appropriate action makes you the true master of your own destiny. Isn't this what we all desire?

So I say to those who are still playing the blame game, it is time to take back your own empowerment and start living the life you so richly deserve. A life of choice and freedom.

About the Author: Sheri Falcone is a novice author, student of personal growth, and entrepreneur who enjoys helping others become truly empowered and achieve their dreams. She has turned her passion into a lucrative personal development, home business, http://www.setnolimits.info This business system provides all the tools you will need to create greater prosperity and joy in your life. Her enthusiasm is contagious and she believes laughter and appreciation are our emotional healers.

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Be Happy With Who You Are

By Shilpan Patel

"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission." - First lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

We often have thoughts of "Why don't I look like this movie star ?" or if we see some-one's nice looking spouse and a thought instantly comes to our mind "Why don't I have a good looking spouse like this?". You are trying to be someone who you never can be. This thought process is the most destructive to your inner and outer personal growth since this thought simply makes your subconscious mind to believe that you have no confidence in your own destiny. Have you ever driven a car that you believed not reliable to take you where you want to go ?. Your life will not reap fruits of dreams if you lack self-esteem and love for your mind, body and soul.

If a roof is improperly made or in disrepair, rain will leak into the house; so doubt enters the mind that is improperly trained or lack roof of self esteem. Indeed, there is nothing more dreadful than the cloud of doubt. Learn to appreciate the fact that god made you as an unique individual who can never be replicated, you are born to be who you are. If you bought a boat, you realize that a small rudder controls navigation of your boat. You are the captain. If you learn how to control rudder, you can sail the world. A garden looks beautiful due to variation of plants and their colors. So, is our life. World is exciting place to live because we all are different in our looks, our thoughts and our dreams. You do not always have to look handsome to be an actor. You do not have to be a perfect communicator to be a journalist. All you need is to try best for the work that pleases you most.

There has never been and never will be another you. We feel happy when we meet with people who we hold high in our assessment. You take time to learn their talents and beauty as a person but do you ever assess own self-worth ? Do you ever consider yourself as talented or as beautiful as your idols ? Who is stopping you from doing that ? It's no other than yourself. It is no other than your own thinking. Over the years you allow external circumstances and opinions of others to stereotype a low self esteem syndrome as many of us do. Start thinking positive, start believing that your mind can achieve what it can conceive. Start feeling that you have what it takes to control your destiny, you are steward of your dreams and just when it seems that you're out of luck, universe will come through with opportunity if you never doubt your ability to achieve dreams. Loving yourself will make you feel happy from within. That happiness will transpire in your attitude and your view of the world around you.

In "Acres of Diamonds" a legendary short novel, Russell Conwell talks about a farmer in South Africa. This farmer learns the riches found in diamond mines in his country and decides to find his own riches. He sells his farm in search for one with diamonds. He never found what he looked for and eventually drowned himself in a river. The person who purchased his farm found a marvelous shiny stone, a diamond. He found not one but thousands of diamonds in the farm that the owner sold is pursuit of what was in his own possession. What we learn from this is that every human has what it takes to achieve inner happiness and dreams regardless of circumstances. Start planting thoughts of positive feelings in your mind and you will reap positive results. If we betray our own body, mind and soul then no one else will plant seeds of faith in our life.

"You must get rid of thought of competition. You are a creator not a competitor" - Wallace D Wattles. What this means is that when we try to imitate someone who is good looking or successful, we are planting seeds of jealousy and competition. Creator has created abundance. You can get abundance without being an imitator. All you have to be is a creator of your own success. When you remove thoughts of competition, you are abandoning thoughts of self doubts. This will help you to start searching for what you want to be within you. Don't search for what you want to be in someone else since acres of diamonds exists within you.

Shilpan Patel

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