We are all more powerful than we know
by Bianca Tait on March 3, 2010
in Blog
March is NOTICING month on The Creation Experiment and so on this very theme I want to share something with you.
A few days ago I was in a meeting and Judith (who was at same meeting) said to me “you don’t realize how powerful you are” and I didn’t really know what to make of that to be honest. I thought perhaps because I have been told that I have a sunny light and extrovert personality and am quite noisy fairly often, she was referring to that.
This morning I received a message on Facebook from my cousin’s daughter Maria. Maria is in her late 20s now; she comes from Austria and is a total free spirit, she cannot seem to settle in one place and just loves travelling the globe, exploring, discovering and meeting people and so in between her work as a nurse in Austria, she jumps on planes as often as she can and goes exploring. This is quite unusual for the Austrians that I know for they are usually home birds but I should not wish to offend any Austrians reading this blog who may well be world-travellers.
In a few days Maria will be passing through London on her way to exotic South America and this morning she sent me this message “I don´t know if you can remember but once you sent me a quote from Mark Twain and I have never been able to get it out of my head : “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.”
I have absolutely no recollection of having sent this quote to Maria but the fact that it resonated so strongly with her and that she reminds herself of this regularly moved me unbelievably. I have to say that I was taken aback when I read her message and actually I felt extremely emotional and I have been trying to work out why this is. I think it is to do with the fact that I have made a difference to Maria, that having sent her this quote when she was a young girl, validated who she is, the free spirit within her and that I encouraged her to do what her heart told her which was to keep on exploring. Today I feel quite proud of myself and privileged and I have today patted myself on the back for this is a trait I want to have, am pleased to have, both as a coach and all over my life actually, to know that I have made a difference.
So today I realize what Judith might have meant when she said those words to me and I say thank you to Judith and to Maria for making me realize that I can make a difference, that I am powerful and that I can take this and use it for the good in building my business dream.
We are all more powerful than we know – we just need to exercise our skill of noticing.
