Is it possible to increase your own personal power? Are there exercises or systems that can be applied daily to help you become a more powerful person? And maybe even more interesting is the question: can you decrease your personal power? Can you actually get less able, less powerful over time by not pushing yourself and exercising your personal power?
I believe you can do both! Why would your personal power be any different than let’s say your ability to bench press or squat heavy weights, or your ability to think under duress or your ability to compute complicated math equations for that mater? The more you practice and focus your mind and energy on it, the better, faster, stronger you become.
So here’s my point, I’ve been setting a lot of goals for myself lately and actually holding myself to them. It starts in the morning with being super productive early, then hitting a set number of miles on the treadmill or number of reps or pounds pressed at the gym. Then later in the day it’s setting a goal to time block and finish a project or to contact a certain number of clients, then when at home being “present” for my family. At the end of the day, if I’m really focused I can hit virtually all of those little goals. What I’ve found is after a few days of hitting all those micro goals they seem easier and easier to accomplish.
The real challenge is to set little challenges and then hit them. Naturally you’re going to set a goal and something is going to come up, a side ache, an emergency, something trying to distract you from your goal. You must push through, you must hit your little personal challenges. By doing so, you will become incrementally more powerful.
This does not mean I don’t have tough days when things don’t go as planned, this is planet Earth after all. But, I’ve found if I can set little goals and make myself hit those goals, my personal power or ability to accomplish tasks seems to grow.
Try it out, set a few micro goals throughout the day, make sure you hit them and then build on that everyday. Watch what happens, you get on a roll and things just seem to happen a little easier after a while.
P.S. Everyday is easier after a 5 or 6 mile run in the morning!
