A brief discussion on personal power and power sharing—the obsession with power and how all of our fallouts have come down to power and wanting to control people and outcomes.  Myliek Packett discusses her perspective on how power has shifted our views, beliefs, and actions in this world and all of those things, the search for power has created nearly all of our issues.  I thought this was a good follow up to our discussion on being made mean by our circumstances yesterday in that we are made mean when we all ow others to influence how we feel about ourselves.  When we give in to their opinions and beliefs about who we are and what we are supposed to do, we abandon who we are and then we seek ways to fill the voids we are missing, including seeking power.  In short, the desire for power in our own lives, even the desire to reclaim our power, is part of what makes us mean.  When we get mean and jaded we seek power in other places.

Power is something we’ve gone over a lot as well: we feel the most power when we are fully honest with who we are and we allow others to be who they are.  We understand that we attract what we need and what matters by being exactly who we are meant to be—and that’s far easier than trying to make the world bend to who we are.  In Packett’s discussion, we also understand that sharing power and encouraging power in others, we ignite and increase the power faster than giving our power to someone else or exerting power over them.  We help each other achieve through understanding that all success helps others succeed.  The expansion of it helps others grow and growth is good for all of us.  It’s safer to share power than to hoard it because when power gets out of control it hurts us all.  We are in full control of our emotions.  We can’t let the rawness of what happened change who we are—we need to keep perspective.  We are meant to lighten the load for each other, not hurt each other, and if the goal is growth and improvement, we do that better together.