Quotes About Empowerment

Así pues, ¿cómo ofrecer sentido a nuestros clientes potenciales? De manera no muy diferente a como les brindamos la oportunidad de ser generosos, lo que hacemos es invitarlos a participar en algo que es más grande que ellos mismos. Un movimiento. Una causa que promover. Una lucha valerosa contra un malo real, ya sea de carne y hueso o una filosofía perjudicial.

when giving a speech, position yourself as Yoda and your audience as Luke Skywalker.1

honors the journey of the audience and positions us as a leader providing wisdom, products, and services our audience needs in order to thrive.

La gente siempre elegirá una historia que la ayude a sobrevivir y prosperar.

The strategy she recommends to her clients is simple: when giving a speech, position yourself as Yoda and your audience as Luke Skywalker

How are you helping me win the day?

After reading this paragraph, they suddenly know what's been troubling them, how to overcome whatever has been troubling them, and what steps they need to take to move forward. Their world, as it relates to your product and service, now makes sense.

What if the story of our lives is less about what we build and more about who we build up?

But that's done now," Jason said, shaking his head. "No girl who plays the role of a hero dates a guy who uses her. She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while." Part Two A Character

People will always choose a story that helps them survive and thrive.

I've found that people work harder when they are held accountable, and their confidence level rises along with that.

Demand the best from yourself and be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched interests and failed power structures.

It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one's own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that's why we're so anxious to lose them...

small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch for the open door.

Before, I was paralyzed, though I didn't really know it," he said. "It was because I thought too much, lived too much in the mind. It was hard to make decisions. I felt immobilized.

That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.

Joan of Arc had led armies when she was hardly older than Harriet. Yet, for Christmas last year, Harriet's father had given Harriet an insulting board game for girls called What Shall I Be? It was a particularly flimsy game, meant to offer career guidance but no matter how well you played, it offered only four possible futures: teacher, ballerina, mother, or nurse.

Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves our of despair.

Because—isn't it drilled into us constantly, from childhood on, an unquestioned platitude in the culture—? From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from Rousseau to Rumi to Tosca to Mister Rogers, it's a curiously uniform message, accepted from high to low: when in doubt, what to do? How do we know what's right for us? Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: "Be yourself." "Follow your heart.

It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one's own.

She was young still, and the chains had not yet grown tight around her ankles…Whatever was to be done, she would do it.

You'd be surprised, Theo. she said, leaning back in her shawl-shaped chair, what small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch for the open door.

I don't want you to help me.' She raised her head and looked at me: her gaze hit me hard and sweet as a shot of morphine.

From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from Rousseau to Rumi to Tosca to Mister Rogers, it's a curiously uniform message, accepted from high to low: when in doubt, what to do? How do we know what's right for us? Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: "Be yourself." "Follow your heart.