8 Steps to Personal Empowerment
At Camp Kupugani, our Midwest summer camp near Chicago and Madison, one of our core values is empowerment. At camp, we empower our campers in varied ways. For adults and kids not camp, we came across an article from entrepreneur.com with some great empowerment tools. Read our bulleted takeaways below, and/or click here to read the full article.
- Be open to possibilities
- Believe in yourself
- Find that place where anything and everything is possible
- Be open-minded
- Believe in yourself
- Focus on who you are
- Try something even if you don’t think you can do it
- “Everyone was once a novice at everything”
- Be true to yourself
- Don’t focus on the “unfair” around you
- Focus on what you can do to make things fair
- Try something even if you don’t think you can do it
- Run your own race
- Focus inwards to what you are doing
- “The grass is always greener” mentality does not support empowerment
- Focus inwards to what you are doing
- Trust yourself
- Don’t doubt your skills
- If you can dream it, you can do it
- Take calculated risk to build self-trust
- Network
- Collaborate, don’t compete
- Working with others helps you to find your place
- Help find people that fill in your deficiencies on a team
- Competition creates division
- Collaborate, don’t compete
- Love what you do
- Work doesn’t feel like work when you love it
- Setbacks don’t hit as hard
- Hold yourself with grace
- “You get more flies with honey than vinegar”
- Resist “fighting fire with fire” when people might seem like they’re acting against you
- Embrace imperfection
- Failure helps us learn and grow
- “Evolve” rather than “dissolve” in times of crisis
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Source: https://www.entrepreneur.com/