The Greatest Love - Finding Your Personal Power

As I’m sitting down to write this article Whitney Houston is crooning about “The Greatest Love of All” (I want to say it’s the radio but sadly, I’m playing her Greatest Hits CD... I’m a sucker for a feel good song) and it’s triggered some thoughts for me.  Whitney is specifically referring to the love we have for ourselves as the greatest love of all, but what does that mean exactly?  We’ve all heard the old adage “you can’t really love others until you love yourself” and yet most of us struggle, in real life terms, with being comfortable saying (out loud) “I love me!”

In The Secret Bob Proctor portrays the idea of loving yourself by enthusiastically kissing his own hand!  What does it feel like to be THAT sure of who you are? I can tell you right now... it feels fabulous!  It’s been a crazy journey to get to where I am today but I can honestly tell you that I love who I am, I’m proud of the woman I’ve become and I’ve earned this feeling.  It came through blood sweat and MANY tears.  But it is SO worth it.  I wouldn’t change one single part of that journey.  I am truly alive everyday of my life.

Katrina (Wilton – Co-Founder of Glow Health & Wellness) and I attended a Leadership workshop in 2002 where we took part in an exercise about discovering your ‘personal power’, it was challenging and frightening and it went something like this... One by one we took turns at standing up in front of the entire group and we had to yell as loudly and strongly as possible a phrase starting with ‘I am’.  It had to be something relevant for us and we had to stick with that word and keep yelling until such time as the group unanimously clapped us to sit down.  If even one of them wasn’t convinced then we had to keep going.  How did they measure they’re conviction?  Goosebumps.  Yep that’s right... goosebumps.  When you come from your true place of personal power, you can really feel it and, so can those around you.

Why do I tell you this story?  To invite you to step up to your own personal power. Too often I see people living luke warm lives and believing that’s all there is to it.  They stop expecting things to be different because they don’t know HOW to change them.  We don’t always have the answers, we don’t always know the ‘how’ (honestly, we RARELY know the answers), but that’s the joy of life!  Go out there and find the answers.  Don’t do your best – DO WHATEVER IT TAKES.  Being happy is worth it.

Dare to be Fabulous!™