Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and the future. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the supermind.
This week – power.
Your super 5 about questions or points around power for your mind to play with. Let go, be free….stretch your mind.
For millenia humankind have waged war, played political games, and pursued ideological strategies all in the name and quest for power. And even at the smallest level people seek power in their office, or sports club, community, and their own lives. So let’s look at, and think about, this magnetic control that often human beings so badly want.
- This week I’m starting with a quote and a personal question for you. ‘The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any’, so said American author, Alice Walker. My question to you then is, ‘What power do you most keep giving away because you don’t believe you actually have it (and you clearly do)?
- Maybe you have been to the cinema recently and watched some Superheroes up on the big screen. Gifted souls with special enhanced powers beyond other humans that they employ to bring about a better world. So, I’m getting tough on your here as I’m going to the flip side of the first question above, ‘What is your real, living superpower that you use every single day out in the world that you don’t realise is that incredible’? And once you accept that you have it, how can you develop it further for your good and the good of others?
- Observation – those that seek power do so to be able to control others, to serve their ego, to be omnipotent and unanswerable to the least amount of others, and to have full choice but less consequence. Power seekers are very unhappy at who they are and there lies the fundamental truth at deciding who we should give power to.
- The greatest power today on Planet Earth lies with a small number of world leaders and business moguls. This elite group of the few decide for the many. They decide most for everyone. It seems they have been amassing fast accelerating amount of total power decade after decade. How can we stop the march of power into the hands of only a handful of people?
- Up to this point I’ve spoken about power as a ruling force, But, there is another power. Power as energy to heat and run our homes and transport, businesses, and countries. We have moved away from fossil fuels to achieve this but now rely heavily on a few nations to supply our power. And that reliance has proved costly and under threat when those nations are involved in disputes with us. Big question coming – how can we use NEW power in our country (the one you live in) so we have full control and access of it that will provide energy to everyone there i.e. how we can have our own power over our power?
That’s Supermind Saturday for this week. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its untapped power (deliberate pun this time!). Consider more, reflect more, think more, activate your connection to your personal mind more. Let them super sink in and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.