You Need Never Be Without Personal Power

10/14/21 • 16 min

Viktor Frankl, the great psychiatrist imprisoned for years in a Nazi death camp, gave us the tools to unlock the God-given, indestructible reservoir of power inside each and every one of us. It can be tapped in the face of any amount of pain—if you know it’s there and resolve to use it.

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Remember Your Metaphorical Cup of Coffee

Sometimes it really helps to remember that the creative and economic stresses that those of us who are fortunate enough to be able to pay our bills can still feel, along with the sense of impending doom that visits us despite relative peace and prosperity, are created by us. We conjure them up. It’s almost as though we suspend disbelief and generate a false narrative of our lives that makes it seem life threatening if we don’t climb the next rung on the ladder of success or meet rather artificial deadlines or milestones.

Sometimes, we should just sit back, realize there are no holes in our jeans (unless we bought them that way or like them that way), remember that we won’t be at a loss to buy our next $4 cup of coffee and let our lives and hearts and minds breathe a bit.

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They Want to Cut Your Vocal Cords

What do you really GET for speaking your mind, even if so many people in America want to shut you up? You get stronger. You get a spine of steel. Everything that works against resistance works better, in the end. So, don’t be muzzled or (as Anthony Fauci did with dogs) have your vocal cords cut. Say what you think. Mean what you say. And don’t back down for anyone.