9 Building Blocks of Personal Empowerment

Enhancing your own sense of personal empowerment will ensure you live a

fulfilling Life. Print out & work your way through this process to build your reserves

of personal strength. You’ll solve problems, work harder, Love more, & achieve your dreams!

1.) Resolve to succeed:

On a scale of 1-10, with 1 = the lowest & 10 = the highest, how would you

rate your level of self-confidence? _______________ 

If your score is lower than 7, take an inventory of your positive characteristics.

What do you do really well?

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What does the word “success” mean to you?

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Now, personalize it. In order for you to classify yourself as “successful,” what

would you be doing?

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2.) Believe positive things will happen:

What are the chances that you’ll achieve your Life goals?

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Name 3 people whom you see as positive & successful.

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What is it they do that makes you label them as “positive?”

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3.) Keep your dreams fresh:

What are *your* dreams for your Life?
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Do you do something each day to move toward accomplishing your Life goals?
If not, conceptualize what things may jump start the progression.
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What will you do today, tomorrow, & the next day to progress toward
your dream Life?
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Name 3 people you can talk to about your Life goals.
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4.) Change your Mind to change your Life:

How do you feel about your Life right now?
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What would you like to change about your Life?
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Select one thing you want to change and do a pros/cons list on it below.

Pros
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Cons
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What change will you make first and when will you start the change?
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5.) Take action: go after what you want:

□ Share your dreams for the future with your partner or a close friend
and then check this box.

□ What personal work could you do that’s related to some of your Life
dreams? Undertake some of that personal work & then check this box.

What kind of support will you require to go after what you want in Life?
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Who can you physically ask for that support?
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Create a step-by-step list to achieve the Life of your dreams. Start with the
first thing you want to do, then the second, & the third and so on.

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6.) Be willing to work hard:

What complaints do you have about your job?
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Can you do anything to change these things? If so, write it here.
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If changing these things isn’t in your Power, can you resolve within yourself that
you’ll let go of the complaints?
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What can you do to step up your work performance?
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7.) Do something: starting small is better than not starting at all:

Take a Leap of Faith & do one thing to move toward your dreams. What will it be?
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Are fears preventing you from working on your Life goals? If so, why?
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Make a promise to yourself related to your dreams.
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8.) Keep moving forward:

Make a list of the daily, weekly, & monthly tasks you’ll do in working toward
your goals. Look at your schedule now. Block off time each week to proceed
with your new Life. You’re worth it.

9.) Avoid giving away your Power:

What was the most recent personal crisis you experienced?
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How did you handle it?
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Have you given your Power away in the past by thinking, “I’ll never be happy
now” or “My Life can never be what I want it to be because of ...”
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If so, explain.
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What will you do to avoid giving away your Power to others?
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Delve into your Life’s greatest passions & pursue them with a vengeance.
When you empower yourself, you’ll have all the tools you need to construct the
Life of your fondest dreams. There’s no better time to get started than now!

Evil Eye

The Graeco-Egyptian god Serapis (Σέραπις) was specially invoked to defend his devoted followers against the Evil Eye under its abstract title of φθόνος. A look at this most ancient superstition formulates an appropriate prelude to the Power of the amulets of antiquity.

All ancient nations held the universal belief in the Power of the Evil Eye of a spiteful person, counteracted by amulets of antiquity. Apollonius Rhodius adhered to such a notion, manifesting the death of Talos, Bronze Protector of the shores of Europa, by Medea's serpentine gaze. Even Saint Paul accounts for the action of the Soul as it works through the bodily windows in sins of malicious origination: "being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips," -Romans 1:29, NASB

The detailed description of operation upon the inflicted is explained best in the following passage from Heliodorus (Æthiopica 3:8):

"Tell me, my good Calasiris, what is the malady that has attacked your daughter?"

"You ought not to be surprised," I replied, "if at the time when she was heading the procession in the sight of so vast an assemblage of people, she had drawn upon herself some envious eye."

Whereupon, smiling ironically, "Do you then," asked he, "like the vulgar in general, believe in the reality of such fascination?"

"As much as I do in any other fact," I replied, "and the thing is this: the air which surrounds us passing through the eyes, as it were through a strainer, and also through the mouth, the teeth and the other passages, into the inward parts, whilst its external properties make their way in together with it--whatever be its quality as it flows in, of the same nature is the effect it disseminates in the recipient, so that when any one looks upon beauty with envy, he fills the circumambient air with a malignant property, and diffuses upon his neighbor the breath issuing from himself, all impregnated with bitterness, and this, being as it is of a most subtle nature, penetrates through into the very bone and marrow. Hence envy has frequently turned itself into a regular disease, and has received the distinctive appellation of fascination (βασκανία). Consider also, my Charities, how many people have been infected with ophthalmia, how many with other pestilential diseases, not from any contact with those so affected, or from sharing the same bed or same table, but merely from breathing the same air. Let also (and above all the rest), the origin of love be a support to my argument, for that owes its first origin to the sight which shoots like arrows the passion into the soul. And for this there is very good reason, for of all the senses and passages of the body, the sight is the most easily excited, and the most inflammable, and consequently the most susceptible with regard to external emanation, in consequence of its own natural fiery essence, attracting to itself the visits of love. And if you wish for a proof drawn from Natural History, recorded likewise in the Sacred Books, the bird, the yellowhammer, cures the jaundice, and if a person so affected shall but look at that bird, the latter at once tries to escape and shuts its eyes; not as some think, because it begrudges the benefit to the sick man, but because, if looked upon by men, it is forced by its nature to attract his disease into its own body, like an exhalation, and therefore shuns the glance as much as a blow. And amongst serpents, the basilisk, doth not he, as you may have heard, kill and blast whatever comes in his way by means of his eyes and his breath alone? And if some give the stroke of the Evil Eye even to those they love and are well disposed towards, you must not be surprised, for people of an envious disposition act not as they wish, but as their Nature compels them to do."