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I will be the first to say, I love power. My family knows it, my friends know it,and I know it. If it was offered as a discipline in college, I may have minored in it. I believe having power can help you paint your ideal life.When your thoughts are emitted out to the world you will soon see how it plays harmoniously with your actions, like a fine tune that is echoed from the cords of a piano-- it will start take form. It deals with actually seeing your ideas -- observing them as it transitions from thoughts to something visible-- something easily attainable.

It's like sweet Ambrosia.

There is power in words and if used properly you can sway even the most stubborn of minds. I had a professor who once said, " Words are the pipelines to your brain". I am still a pupil in that department. I understand it fully with the several projects I had done in the past. I had to gain trust before I was granted any action. It took power in words and presence. You have to work in confidence within yourself before you can think of getting anything in life. Why should I do this? Why should I grant you this? Who are you?.... . Reflecting on the last entry, you have to be bold.


I have several books! I place value on books more than the shoes on my feet or the clothes on my back. I've started reading, " The 48 laws of Power", by Robert Greene. He is rather frank about power in is recent best-seller. It almost seems evil at first but I see truth in it as he examines several events in the past where power was displayed.


Niccolo Machiavelli: Renaissance diplomat and courtier states,

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to ruin among a great number who are not good"





The gains of attaining power are countless. When one bends to your will without even realizing it, is what I call: Power laced with traces of seduction. Robert Greene has another novel called, The Art of Seduction. My mouth is watering by just thinking of getting my hands on that book!


Greene also says in order for one to be in track with power, you must not allow emotions to crowd your way of thinking. Anger clouds reason while love blinds self-deserving interests. We are encouraged to reflect on Janus, a Roman deity, who literally had two faces--we must look forward toward the future and have a face to look backward to the past. In order to live a sound life and assume power in the present, we must calculate all possible permutations. That is the only way we can guarantee a life that seems controlled.This will result in you always maintaining your composure because you would have already thought of every resolution for everything that could go wrong. A person in power does not falter or break down when something does not go right.We can always identify a powerful person by how composed he/she is. They maintain their level of composure because they have already expected all flaws in their work and have already calculated the best route to solve them effortlessly.


We can assume power by taking it on strong and steady. We are the conductors of our own orchestra called life.

I woke up early this morning and took control and said, " I will run today.I did run!I went out for a long 3 mile run. That was powerful for me. It was better than lounging around and saying, " I wish I could go..".


Power hungry or not. LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE Your way!

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