The Circle of Empowerment - Determination

This week on the Creating Your Masterpiece blog, we wanted to introduce you to our 3 part series – The Circle of Empowerment. The Circle of Empowerment consists of characteristics that you need to have in order to live a life of complete EMPOWERMENT.

Over the next few weeks, we will be focusing on three different characteristics that make up the Circle of Empowerment. This week the focus is on Determination!

Determination: the act of coming to a decision or of fixing or settling a purpose. The quality of being resolute; firmness of purpose.

You know the feeling… you get excited about something, revved up, ready to take action, on a mission, nothing is going to stop me now!!! You are probably inspired by an injustice, or failure, or desire to serve others in a unique way. Essentially you’ve decided to adopt an “I Can Do It” attitude and set your sights on something BIG! Fantastic! Let’s Go!!

Wait a minute…we have all felt this way about something in our lives. How many times did we adopt the “I Can Do It” attitude, yet never really fulfilled our goal or mission? It happens all the time, be honest, it has happened to all of us more than once.

To have true Determination it takes…
1. Defining your vision or purpose
2. Obtaining a clear understanding of what success means to you
3. Imploring others to jump on board with your vision
4. Design a Path for success and most importantly…and don’t forget to add Passion!
Look around you – we see real Determination every day. It’s in a child’s voice when they really, really want something. Your dog’s un-ending pulling on the leash when he sees a cat across the street. In a disabled person’s eyes, when they are struggling to be as “normal” as possible, and get that can off the shelf by themselves.

Do you have that kind of Determination? Try it out this week. Don’t stop at just having an “I Can Do It” attitude – really get determined!