103. Personal Initiative

Constantly practice going the extra mile. When you unwrap a box, put the paper in the bin before you do anything else. This is taking responsibility and is called personal initiative, a part of your personal power. You don't have to be told what to do when you have this quality.

36. Your Inner World and Personal Power

Take responsibility for the development of your mind and heart. No-one else is capable of controlling what goes on in your heart and mind unless you surrender that control. Your inner world belongs to you and only to you. Everything you think feel and do is under your control. If you should ever find that you have surrendered it, take back your power immediately. Learn, therefore to seek only your own approval as measured by your own internal code of ethics, what Warren Buffett calls your inner score-card.
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20. Power

In all areas of life, it is important that you become as powerful as you can. Martial Arts teach the code of the warrior and how to be a powerful fighter. The changes that you receive from the Way of the Warrior teach you what it feels like at a gut level to be powerful. This is an aspect of "The Zone". Find this space and find yourself in it. Personal Power is important if you are to achieve the things you want in life. It is granted freely by Life if you put in the work needed to achieve it but it would be a grave mistake to ever think that your personal power was yours to use as you pleased. That is an idea of the Ego. In truth, you belong to the Power and are an instrument of its intention. Power is physical, mental, emotional, artistic and financial. You need to learn and cultivate all aspects of your power.