The time has come to launch EMPOWER Possible and www.empowerpossible.com! EMPOWER Possible has been years in the making. It is time to share what I have learned and continue to learn with others through EMPOWER Possible. I have been nervous about sharing what I have been working on as I am not sure how others will receive it. Anytime you share a piece of yourself you open yourself up to criticism, it is at these times I think of Theodore Roosevelt's statement to help build my confidence. As Theodore Roosevelt said, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat….You have had a great past. I believe that you will have a great future. Long may you carry yourselves proudly as citizens of a nation which bears a leading part in the teaching and uplifting of mankind.” Source: "Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910, The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Vol XIII, pp. 506-529
Where in your life have you had a “citizen” in the arena moment and where have you held yourself back from entering the arena? What do you think stopped you?
We all can have our turn in the arena, let’s dare greatly, engage, empower, and together we can regenerate our world.
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