You Already Used It Today

That is how these things work. They are not stored in a box for a big moment. They leak out constantly, in small ordinary situations, mostly without you deciding anything.

Somebody was struggling with something and you helped without being asked. Somebody was left out and you moved over. Somebody said something unkind and you did not pass it on. Somebody needed a thing explained and you explained it in the way they could actually understand.

Every one of those is a power being used. None of them felt like one.

I teach for a living, so I spend my days watching people do remarkable things and then apologise for not doing more.

Here is what I would like you to try. Tonight, before you go to sleep, find one thing you did today that made something slightly better for somebody else. Just one. Do not make it big.

Then do it again tomorrow. After a week you will start to see a pattern, and the pattern is the point.

You do not have to wait to become powerful. You have been using it all day, in small amounts, without noticing.