The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.
Blaine Lee The Power Principle: Influence with Honor
Categories: principles circumstances living

...power is not really good or bad; it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Blaine Lee The Power Principle: Influence with Honor
Categories: power influence morals morality ethics leadership

...crisis plus time equals humor.
Blaine Lee The Power Principle: Influence with Honor
Categories: perspective funny mistakes laugh at yourself humor

No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arise, we choose to be powerful or powerless. It may not always feel like it, but it is a choice. And there are consequences for these choices in terms of the results we get, and the subsequent increase or decrease in our power and influence. If we choose powerlessness, it is often because we doubt there is any other option.
Blaine Lee The Power Principle: Influence with Honor
Categories: choices consequence power actions results failure victim mentality learned helplessness responsibility accountability

When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.
Blaine Lee The Power Principle: Influence with Honor
Categories: relationships friendships trust marriage parenting honesty respect love behavior

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.
Blaine Lee The Power Principle: Influence with Honor
Categories: self-improvement change growth learning character guidance potential excellence mentoring coaching planning

Sometimes we feel that we've got to climb a mountain or raise a monument to leave our mark on the world. What we fail to recognize is that often we make a difference simply by existing, by handling what life gives us. Maybe the way we deal with our challenges and our rewards inspires someone else to achieve worthwhile things in their own life.
Blaine Lee The Power Principle
Categories: perseverence persevere difficulties challenges problems obstacles example

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, suprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power.
Blaine Lee The Power Principle
Categories: personal responsibility choice power self-determination