“And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears,” Mark Anthony.  We all need a little reminder that we are bad ass.  The only thing that keeps us where we are is ourselves, specifically how we view ourselves.  When we recognize our power we unlock the door to tremendous possibility.  Let’s talk about ways we are badass, I’ll go first.

I’m badass for working all the projects that I do.  There are days it drives me crazy and I feel like I am more ADD than human, not as productive as I want to be.  But I am a highly driven and ambitious person and I know with a little (a lot) of focus I can get where I want to go.  Put actions to dreams and soon the alchemical process of manifestation occurs and it’s all real.  I have a taste for dreams, I have a lot of dreams, things I want to do, see, accomplish.  With the effort I know I can get there.

I’ve been hurt by some of the people closest to me and I am still able (and WANT) to love.  Everyone has been hurt at some point in their lives, felt devastated, cut up.  But there are events that really come out of left field and the people you thought you could trust turn out to be the ones feeding you poison.  It takes a lot for us to pick up the pieces and move forward from stuff like that.  Trust is one of the strongest things in the world but also so incredibly fragile, it only takes one moment to destroy it.  To pick up again after that is a gift.

I’ve started over, over and over again.  There was a long period of time I wasn’t sure what direction I wanted to go in.  I thought I could be everything and everyone to everyone at all times and I had no real direction of what I wanted to do.  I stopped and started a million times thinking I could do whatever—like be a dog trainer or handle dispatching, setting up POS sales equipment, be a massage therapist—whatever.  I had different ideas, a lot of them didn’t pan out, like I would start and they didn’t feel right and the things I really wanted to do I didn’t think I could succeed so I held off as long as possible.  Starting over into the thing we are meant to do takes courage, especially after failing at other things we don’t necessarily love but things we took a chance on.  It takes guts to begin again and I have done it.

I’m allowing my creativity to take center stage.  I’ve always felt a pull to speak, to share my information, to share words, to discuss, to create new things.  But I’ve always fell back into what I thought I was supposed to be doing and prioritized my job (even if I didn’t like it) because I felt that was what I should be doing, what I was supposed to do.  But the creative pull is strong and it will continue to call until we respond.  Starting anything based on a hunch or a calling alone is terrifying because we have no idea where we are going, we just know we need to go “that” way.  I have absolutely confirmed that once we start walking in the right direction, the path starts to clear.  We can’t get where we want to go if we continue to wait for the way to be clear and things will not build themselves.  We must answer that call.

I know I am capable of doing things on my own.  I used to think I needed permission to do things or to get started, or that I needed agreement and consensus to do what I wanted to do.  Even something as simple as running to the store—I would wait until I heard from everyone around me before I would go just in case they wanted to come with or needed something.  It got to the point where I couldn’t go alone.  Events over the last weekend have shown me that others do NOT have the same consideration for me.  They don’t even trust that they can tell me what’s happening or what they want in their lives so they behave in secrecy, do it behind my back.  They aren’t waiting for my permission—and I do not need theirs.

When we remember our power we are unstoppable—the world has their views of who we are and it is irrelevant.  We need to know who we are and we need to own our power.  For all that we allow to hold us back, we are capable of burning it away.  Release the ties to whatever it is we think we need to do.  It is incredibly badass to own our power and authenticity and our identity.  Don’t let discomfort create fear of what we are called to do.  We don’t need permission, we need courage and understanding of our soul.  That is all it requires to live an untamed, free, powerful life.