Stepping into your personal power is about being able to own what you do and say. A common area where women give up that assertive strength is when there’s a problem. When someone complains about what we do or said, we tend to want to explain why we said it or did it ! Therein lies the challenge.
It makes sense initially to want to explain WHY. Yet, it becomes a place where we can sound like we are defensive and unable to own our part of what happened. It begins to sound like we don’t care about the feedback.
The more we explain our actions, the more we lose our personal power.
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We keep our power when we can say: “thank you for the feedback.” We keep our power when we can say: “let me fix it.” No explanations….because they sound like excuses.
We keep our power when we honor that someone else has every right to think what we said or did was wrong. We own our voice when we no longer have to defend what we did.
