Taking Your Personal Power Back- Part 2

In August, we are focusing on Personal Power. Last week, we defined Personal Power and explored the variety of ways that power leaks can get in the way of our success. These are the more conscious ways. But what about the unconscious ways? 
 
This week, we are looking at the unconscious ways we give our power away. You will learn how to locate them so you can patch them up. These are good to be aware of if we wish to elevate our potential and understand how to elevate others!

PART 2: Mindset Power Leaks
There are conscious and unconscious power leaks. The conscious ones we can "catch ourselves in the act” like my mentor Sandy Hogan used to put it. The unconscious ones are our default patterned ways of being. These are harder to catch because we aren’t yet aware they exist.
 
The good news is that we have the capacity to bring the unconscious to the conscious! 
Below is a list of unconscious patterned ways of thinking that end up as power leaks.  

• Justification
• Assumption
• Catastrophizing
• Generalizing
• Minimizing
• Self-Depreciating
• Projecting
• Exaggerating
• Pessimism
• Rigidity / Absolutes
• Black & White Reasoning 

Notice in your thinking if any of these are showing up and when. We can catch our blind spots as we look at when these patterns most come to life. For example, under stress I default to assumptions. Now I’m aware of this pattern. Bringing the unconscious way of being into the conscious, I know to look for assumptive thinking under stress and rein it in. This saves me mounds of additional stress caused by limiting thinking.

As a matter of fact, all of these pitfalls are limited in their thinking and therefore become the limitations that bind us. 

It is a substantial list, so I recommend spending one day at a time observing and watching out for one of these patterns. Notice. Catch yourself in the act. 

Since we’ve spent the last two weeks noticing and locating power leaks, next week we will explore what to do with them and how to patch them up.

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