If personal power is meant to the point, why are so many powerful people so unfulfilled? The founder that gets the exit, but feels empty. The actor who wins the Oscar, then wallows in depression. The achiever who keeps leveling up, but never seems to arrive…
The bulk of the psychological and transformational world exists to help people heal, to pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and realize that instead of the world happening to them they can take responsibility for recreating themselves and their lives. This is awesome. I love this and celebrate this and the world desperately needs this…
And, it’s not enough. Or more accurately, it’s too much! Endless todo lists, more decisions, more responsibilities, more complexity, more challenges. More, more, more. Delegation and optimization aren’t enough to stem the tide – the more ‘empowered’ you become, the more it feels like fulfillment is slipping through your fingers.
What if the problem with personal empowerment is that we’re just taking it too… personally?
Who would you be if life wasn’t about hard work, achievement, and mastery? I don’t mean collapsing into powerlessness. I mean stepping up into a view of life where empowerment is merely a tool, not an identity.
Your life is too big to be taken personally. As you look beyond your personal capacity, you begin to tap into something greater – something that is even more you, something that wants to move through you.
Join me for this conversation about the virtues and limits of personal empowerment, and what lies beyond – a world that is more easeful, authentic, purposeful, and weird.
“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature.”
– George Bernard Shaw