power and responsibility

personal power

character

Personal power and power over others are one and the same thing. Both are achieved through self-control.

health

• people who have personal power
  • believe in themselves
  • are not crippled by irrational fears and self-doubt
  • are free to help themselves and others
  • maintain appropriate boundaries between themselves and others

power over others: control

character

If you do not acquire and maintain power over others you will be controlled by others.

health

• people who need to try to control other people feel powerless
  • they believe controlling someone else will make them feel less powerless
• people compete with others in order to "steal their power"

responsibility

character

health

• responsibility for a child
  • you assume it the minute you conceive the child
  • should be assigned to another if you neglect or abuse the child
• responsibility for a group
  • given to you by the group, as a sacred trust
  • can be retracted
• responsibility can't be taught
  • can only be modeled