277 You Are Powerful

"Just imagine how much you could do if you called all of your power back to you." - Lewis Howes If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes and more at http://lewishowes.com/277 Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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• 0:00Lewis Howes?

  This is Five Minute Friday, episode number 277. You are powerful. Gary Zukav said, "The creation of authentic power is the creation of a life of joy." Have you forgotten that you are powerful? We come into life as a whole, complete person. As infants and children, we are also small, helpless beings dependent upon our caregivers to keep us alive. A baby can scream so forcefully that it can hold an entire plane full of people hostage in its grasp for hours on end, as if to say, "I may be tiny, but you can't stop me."

• 0:42Lewis Howes?

  If you have ever watched a toddler throw a temper tantrum or scream "no" at the top of their insanely loud little lungs, then you have seen the face of personal power. No matter how small a person is, their power can be gigantic. A young girl named Anne Frank, who died at the age of 16, was also powerful that her diary alone has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to live authentically since 1945. Ferdinand Foch said, "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." So when did you forget how powerful you are? Because you do have the power to create the life you desire, the relationships, the

• 1:27Lewis Howes?

  income, the lifestyle, the health. Gary Zukav also said, "Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it." One of the biggest blocks to success in your business or your life is when you give your power away, even for a short time. What does this mean to give your power away? Let me break it down. We cannot choose what happens to us, but we can choose how we react to it. We can spend hours, days, even lifetimes inside a victim's story of our own making.

• 2:10Lewis Howes?

  Let's say someone hurts me, and I reflect and mourn for years after. I have spent precious life, energy, and time on that incident that happened ages ago. Chances are, the bully has completely forgotten their transgression, but I am still stuck in the past, giving power to it. Because I am stuck in an endless loop of hurt and not forgiving, my personal power continues to be drained by this incident, years and years after it has ended. We have these power leaks all over history. Like when the energy efficiency expert comes and takes a scan of our home to see where the heat leaks out. We have things in our hearts and minds that continue to drain us of efficiency because

• 2:55Lewis Howes?

  we haven't resolved them. For example, if you were bullied as a kid, you may hold on to pockets of anger, defensiveness, and bitterness that keep you from fully being close to a friend, or opening up to someone you are in relationship with. This is because you gave away your power long ago to the bully who you allowed to make you feel worthless. Just imagine how much you could do if you called all your power back to you. If you were able to let go of those past hurts, and even let go in the present relationship where you feel abused or walked on. When you give your power to anger, anger multiplies.

• 3:36Lewis Howes?

  When we are angry, we feel more powerful, but that is not true power. The anger actually has power over us. Think about it, have you ever been so angry that you scared yourself? A powerful book everyone should read is "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. In this book, the author describes his real-life experience of losing everything he loved in his life, and being locked in a concentration camp during the Holocaust, stripped down to his naked essence. Frankl said, "The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

• 4:16Lewis Howes?

  The last of one's freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance. And, when we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

• 4:31Lewis Howes?

  You have all the power within you that you need to make whatever you wish happen. You just have to remember to be unapologetically yourself and choose it. You are powerful. As Viktor Frankl said, "Between stimulus and response, there is space." In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Thank you all so very much for tuning into this special Five Minute Friday. If this is your first time here, make sure to subscribe to the podcast. Go to iTunes, Stitcher, or SoundCloud and click on the subscribe button. Also, if you enjoyed this, share this with your friends.

• 5:14Lewis Howes?

  LewisHowes.com/277. Share it out online on social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and let your friends know that they are powerful as well. I appreciate you guys. We do this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Some incredible guests coming up, and I want you guys to have an incredible weekend. Hope you enjoy this one. You know what time it is. It's time to go out there and do something great.