Increase Self- Mastery, Increase Your Personal Power!
In The YDBG we define Power as the ability to influence life, self, and others. In this game, there are two types of Power:
- Internal Power i.e. relationships to life, self, and others, health and fitness of your Body Vehicle (5 wheels - mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, and social), etc.
- External Power i.e. money, status, vehicles, etc.
In The YDBG, anytime we refer to health, generally speaking, we are really referring to the Body Vehicle because health is not just limited to the physical body. Your physical health is simply a manifestation of the health of the other four wheels. Day encourages us to ask ourselves "How healthy and fit am I mentally? How healthy and fit am I socially? Spiritually? Physically? Emotionally?" And remember, health and fitness are two distinctive entities yet they overlap at energy as it takes energy to be healthy and it takes energy to be fit. Health is your consciousness, how you relate to life and your habits around each wheel and fitness is your ability to exercise those habits that empower growth in each wheel.
The key is to align the wheels of your Body Vehicle for balance and to keep them aligned you want to make sure you are doing these three things:
1. Minimize leakages in areas that you may be giving your power away or making dis-empowering choices in.
2. Maximize storage in areas that you are making powerful choices in.
3. Optimize usage in areas that you may be less effective in utilizing by choosing healthier habits to increase your conduit and play for greatness.
Where ever you may be losing power, put a tourniquet on it then add healthier habits to increase your power in that area(s).
So often, we measure success by the "things" we accumulate externally rather than our level of mastery over self. That is easy to do in the society we live in where if we want something now, we can usually get it now. Many people want things upfront and are willing to pay the debt of those things later like credit cards or maybe certain unhealthy food choices, etc. It is much easier to attain external power than it is internal power. Things like credit cards, the lottery, and living wills make external power an easier and quicker possibility however internal power cannot be bought, won overnight, or signed over. Internal power must be practiced, cultivated and nurtured over time.
And, as we discussed in our weekly 7 Habits conversation -
Strength + Flow = POWER and Strength + Resistance = FORCE
The healthier your habits, the healthier you are. The healthier you are, the more you increase and impact your power capacity, therefore your effectiveness, your environment, and your life. There is no quick fix to harnessing your personal power but the most effective way to gaining it is through your health and fitness. So, play on, choose powerfully and stay tuned for more………