The Direction of Intention

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Join me in inspiring truly powerful people. Each day I will add a new thought, story or idea to support your quest and mine.

Truly powerful people inspire others to be powerful because they are operating from a clear center. In the simplest terms this means that they are being by their intention and not by their circumstance.

Circumstance is a force in every person’s story and if you are not careful circumstance becomes the story. As the brilliant coach Alan Seale has taught me, you may not have control over your circumstance but you have infinite control over how you are with in your circumstance.

The word “control” is the operative word. Hurricane Katrina happens; tsunami’s and earthquakes are out of our control. I can blame, shake my fist at the sky and ask, “why me?” I can be angry at the hand fate has dealt me and simmer my life away in a stew of self-pity. Or, I can choose to step toward life. I can embrace “what is” and work with that. I can look for opportunity. I can offer my gifts regardless of circumstance. I can control how I am within any circumstance or I can let circumstance control me.

What if you recognized that your circumstances were just circumstances and had no power over what you choose to see or the actions you choose to take? Who would you be?

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