Thursday, 20 September 2012

Understanding The Power Of Personal Empowerment

By Casandra Newton


Most individuals do not understand the meaning or even the importance of personal empowerment. In order to achieve it, it is important to develop personal skills of influencing the activities around you and the people that you interact with. Here it means the ability of taking control of an individual life.

The short-term goals are those that are not complex and would only require a shorter period of time to fulfill. But the long-term individual empowerment techniques are the complex ones that require a longer period of time to accomplish. However, this does not mean that an individual short limit their dream by setting less ambitious goals. A set of objectives will encourage you and motivate you to adhere to the set objectives that are not within your means now.

However, while setting goals it is important to set achievable goals but those outside our immediate means can be addressed later. Just as they say that failure to plan is planning to fail, a set of individual goals will encourage an individual lead a focused life. Nonetheless, setting of goals does not mean that we set less ambitious targets but it means we can set even bigger targets that we can achieve over a long period of time. Support from friends, and relatives are paramount in achieving empowerment.

Remember to keep striving to better your fate however, hard and difficulty it maybe. The power of persistence makes an individual emotionally strong and a sense of self satisfaction is gained. Eliminate any feeling of the negativity, be patient since this would take time.

Also the participant need to think in advance and realize that goal setting will ensure that you became discipline. In fact, it helps one to achieve more in life. Therefore, setting realistic goals is very essential.

Nonetheless, remember there are the times that the body will became weary and the need to give up overwhelms us. It is thus important to keep pushing on and always remain optimistic. Constantly, remember to shun off any pessimistic feelings that are mostly fuelled by negative thinking. Nevertheless, patient is another virtue that an individual should have because most of the time a sense of hopelessness and being a failure will always be bombarding our heads.

Here will call for careful selection of friends and activities that will always be uplifting our souls whenever we are discouraged. Mark out an action or a group of actions that would deal with the many encountered obstacles. Many are the times that barriers will alter or delay our positive progress towards achieving personal empowerment. It is also important to turn any negative feelings into positive feelings and as well replacing pessimism with optimism.

This is the time that the feeling of pessimism should be replaced with a feeling of positive thinking. Thus the need to select and associate with positive minded individual is paramount. However, most of the time a person will encounter barricades that will threaten to change our destiny and thus the need to have friends who will positively encourage us.




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