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Dr. Annice E. Fisher. The Power Within Me
Dedication
Introduction: The tug-of-war in your spirit. The real truth behind the smile
This is YOUR time
Your road to discovering the power within you
Amina
Grace
Now it’s your turn
Ultimately, the tug-of-war is about the power of choice
Asking: What's going on inside of me?
Chapter 1: Recognizing when getting unstuck goes beyond affirmations and mantras. When the old bag of tricks stop working
Amina's road led to a dead-end
Now, it’s your turn. You have to choose to use your power
You have to honor the present moment
You have to increase your self-awareness
You have to deploy yourself intentionally
Key takeaway
Chapter 2: Discerning the two dominant voices in your head. The voices in your head determine your path
The battle of the voices: Grace edition
Now, it’s your turn. You have the power to choose
You have to stay present
Dig deep to increase your self-awareness
Deploy yourself with more intentionality
Key takeaway
Chapter 3: Learning how to regulate your power: The mindset-emotion-behavior pathway “Free your mind and the rest will follow”
Amina’s lifelong challenge to maintain a healthy lifestyle
Regulating the power pathway
Now, it’s your turn. Use choice to regulate your power pathway
Use presence to identify trends in your power usage
Allow self-awareness to create the lever for change
It’s up to you to become intentional at regulating your power
Key takeaway
Assessing: How am I using my power?
Chapter 4: Going deeper into your patterns and defaults. Personally mastery is the key to getting unstuck
Grace’s fear-based defaults and patterns
Now, it’s your turn. You have a choice to go deeper
You have to stay present to interrupt the autopilot of self-sabotage
Self-awareness generates knowledge about the root
Intentionally decide to release the self-sabotage
Key takeaway
Chapter 5: Identifying and uprooting external validation. Internal validation, external validation, & power
We learned affection instead of love
The miseducation of Grace
Now, it’s your turn. You have the choice to dig up the root
Explore the presence of both forms of validation in your life
Self-awareness identifies which validation guides you
Validation Test
Intentionally address your sources of validation
Uprooting External Validation
Sustaining Internal Validation
Key takeaway
Chapter 6: Staying consistent and managing distractions. Handling detours is part of the journey
Detecting distractions on your journey
Amina got detoured
Now, it’s your turn. You have a choice: will you feed or resist distractions?
Presence stops distractions in their tracks
Self-awareness helps you understand what feeds your distractions
You have to approach living from the highest version of yourself with intentionality
Key takeaway
Accepting: Owning the power within me
Chapter 7: Believing in the highest version of yourself. The road back home
Grace owns the power within her
Amina owns the power within her
Now It’s Your Turn. Make daily choices to walk in love and trust
Presence allows love & trust to overpower fear & doubt
Self-Awareness fuels the three power sources of love & trust
Intentionally embracing the beauty of you
Key takeaway
Chapter 8: Welcoming the real you. Accepting your new beginning
Home rules for the real you
Welcoming the real you
Acknowledgements
Appendix. Chapter 5: Validation Test Answer Key. External Validation Responses: 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24. Internal Validation Responses: 2, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21. Power and Choice Pathway
Glossary of Terms
About the Author
Back cover of the book
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Sometimes you feel like no one understands the real you or the tug-of-war that is going on inside of you. On the outside, everything looks perfect. Good job, check. Nice house, check. Recognition in your profession, check. A constant chorus of people telling you how great you are, check. Yet your inner voice rings louder and louder with every compliment, “you’re not living up to your full potential, why aren’t you using your gifts, why are you running?” You know that you want to live up to your full potential, but you can’t seem to take the leap. Deep down inside you want to listen to your inner voice and ditch the neatly manicured life. Yet each time you try to take the leap towards living up to your full potential, you get pulled back into the vortex of your status quo. It's gotten to the point where you don’t know what else to do because your old bag of tricks is not working. The scriptures, mantras, and daily affirmation texts seem to have lost their power to kickstart your momentum. You want to change, but you can’t. You feel stuck.
Everyone in your circle looks at you and sees a picture perfect life, yet inside you feel a lack of peace from your invisible inner voice constantly reminding you of your stagnation. The reality is, this isn’t your picture perfect life because you are not living as the highest version of yourself. The highest version of yourself is the real you. It is a state of being that stems from the belief that you are enough and fully capable of using your unique talents and gifts for a greater purpose. For some, this greater purpose could mean changing careers, becoming an entrepreneur, or maintaining a healthy lifestyle. While individual motivations may differ, pursuing the highest version of yourself results in living from a place of comfort, trust, and love, where your mindset, emotions, and behaviors coexist peacefully. This internal harmony allows you to freely use your talents without second-guessing yourself. Your spirit feels at rest because you're channeling your power towards trusting yourself, rather than living from the routinized fear-based expectations of others.
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Third Stop: Meet Your Companions for the Ride
Personal work is often done alone. This sometimes creates the feeling of isolation and shame as you peel back the layers to unveil the core of your authentic self. There is power in collective vulnerability and healing that occurs within a community. To ensure that you experience the benefits of community throughout this journey, your two new friends, Amina and Grace are here to ride along with you and exemplify the power of the consciousness-raising steps and techniques in each chapter.
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