There were times in my life when I felt things were going off the rails or a situation was bad and I felt powerless. Maybe it was a persistent disempowering relationship that I didn’t want to disrupt, but at the same time I was being disrespected or kicked around. Maybe it was an employee who had some good qualities, but bad ones that offset it. Maybe it was something that was no good for me or my spirit but hadn’t done anything about yet.
Sound familiar?
I got my power back by (finally) making a decision and taking control. By speaking up and acting. Maybe you have to be fed up enough and hurt enough, and maybe you just have to stop delaying the decision. Either way, make a decision for you, even if it won’t be a popular one for someone else.
Take your power back.
When we are finally done with bad relationships or unhealthy work environment, or even disadvantageous partnership and we make decision to leave we are called selfish, often by those left behind. We are finally free and its time to build ourselves back, build back self-worth, self-esteem. It was very hard decision, we had to suffer long enough, exhaust all the options to make it work and admit that we failed and its time to come to terms with it. The hardest times I think is afterwards, we know we failed and we blame ourselves, we dig in memories trying to find mistakes we made. Its hard to leave, usually takes years, but its much harder to start over. Will we be able to believe, to open up, to trust again? Will we believe we are worth it another chance? That’s the hardest part because bad experience holds us back. What makes us think we will succeed next time if we failed trying so hard in the past?