Quotes About Empowerment

A) TRY TO GET THE PEOPLE WORKING FOR YOU TO BE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN YOU

We can no longer afford to rely on others and repeat the same mistakes from our pasts.

what if you have a job? Get rid of it. You ultimately don't need it. You ultimately will be pushed out of it.

Freedom to help ourselves so that we can help others. Freedom to live the life we choose to lead, instead of having to live the life that has been chosen for us.

Both of these stories are about the same thing, even though they seem completely different. Gandhi chose himself. He once said, "You must first be the change you want to see in this World.

You need to build a positive base: physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Once these four "bodies" are working in harmony, you can reach out into the world. You build the foundation for the house you want to live in.

we can choose the life we want for ourselves. You choose that life by doing the best you can right in this moment. Right now. By being bold in this moment. Right now. There is no other moment to wait for.

you choose your family, your friends, your colleagues, your tribe, your life.

If you think, "Everything would be better off if I were dead," then think, "That's really cool. Now I can do anything I want and I can postpone this thought for a while, maybe even a few months." Because what does it matter now? The planet might not even be around in a few months. Who knows what could happen with all these solar flares.

But one thing is for sure: if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will. There's

The ethic of the Choose Yourself era is to not depend on those stifling trends that are defeating you. Instead, build your own platform, have faith and confidence in yourself instead of a jury-rigged system, and define success by your own terms.

You no longer have to wait for the gods of corporate America, or universities, or media, or investors, to come down from the clouds and choose you for success. In every single industry, the middleman is being taken out of the picture, causing more disruption in employment but also greater efficiencies and more opportunities for unique ideas to generate real wealth. You can develop those ideas, execute on them, and choose yourself for success.

This desire will enable you to seize every opportunity and create the life you want to live.

The day and age of the massive corporations that take care of us from beginning to end are over.

if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will. There's

Rejection—and the fear of rejection—is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

It's one thing to know "The Secret" or take whatever life-affirming steps you've read about in order to bring positivity into your life, but it's something else altogether to actually create opportunities for yourself. You're definitely not going to find them reading a book.

Kamal's excellent book close this chapter: If a painful memory arises, don't fight it or try to push it away—you're in quicksand. Struggle reinforces pain. Instead, go to love. Love for yourself. Feel it. If you have to fake it, fine. It'll become real eventually. Feel the love for yourself as the memory ebbs and flows. That will take the power away.

You must first be the change you want to see in this World.

The key is building the foundation underneath. And then taking a positive action: to choose yourself.

But the most important thing these rejections gave me was a sense that NEVER AGAIN should I rely on the whims of one person to choose my success or failure in any endeavor.

Defining freedom in different ways (reducing expectations, increasing sources of income so no one source controls you).

That's when it clicked. When everything changed. When I realized that nobody else was going to do it for me. If I was going to thrive, to survive, I had to choose myself. In every way. The stakes have risen too high not to.

The day and age of the massive corporations that take care of us from beginning to end are over. But that is exciting news. It means we can choose the life we want for ourselves.