#empower

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#life #life

If you can transcend from the dark rut of disempowered thinking to the bright light of an empowered agreement with reality, you will see opportunities not barriers. You will see the finish line, not the hurdles. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#opportunities #success #life

Once you feel nice about yourself, you have planted the first seed to develop self-confidence. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence #self-help

Self-confidence is contagious. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence #self-help

Certain situations need a Jedi-like approach. One of these is when you are in a strange environment, usually where you feel unsure of yourself. You would be surprised how, if you walk with confidence and meaning, people will see this as a mark of confidence, yet you are perhaps shaking inside but outwardly you have the gait of a confident Jedi Knight. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence #self-help

A Master Jedi feels emotions, but they do not allow them to influence their reasoning. Yoda told Luke that he would know the good from the bad when he was 'calm, at peace. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence #self-help

Your self-confidence is simply the part of your brain that tells you whether or not you should try something different or new or believe in yourself, and just as a Jedi truly believes that it is within their power to control their thoughts and stay in the Light, so can you. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence-image #self-help

Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals. ↗

— Stephen Richards

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The excellence and efficiency of any nation or of our global community at large is driven by the collective empowerment of individuals. Gross consumer waste, haphazard bureaucratic spending, and the careless consumption of natural resources are all reflections of the mismanagement of personal power common within the average citizen. ↗

— Scott Edmund Miller

#societal-progress #nature

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#cannot #conservatives #control #debate #empowers