13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do_ Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success ( PDFDrive )

consequences. Perhaps you won’t get paid. Or maybe you’ll risk losing your job
altogether. But it’s a choice.
Simply reminding yourself that you have a choice in everything you do, think,
and feel can be very freeing. If you’ve spent most of your life feeling like a
victim of your circumstances, it takes hard work to recognize that you have the
power to create the kind of life you want to live.
TAKING BACK YOUR POWER WILL
MAKE YOU STRONGER
You don’t get to be named one of the most powerful people in the world by
giving away your power. Just ask Oprah Winfrey. She grew up in extreme
poverty and was sexually abused by several people throughout her childhood.
She bounced between living with her mother, father, and grandmother, and as a
teenager, she frequently ran away from home. She became pregnant at age
fourteen, but the infant died shortly after birth.
During her high school years, she began working at a local radio station. She
worked her way through several media jobs, and eventually, she landed a job as
a TV news anchor. But she was later fired from the position.
She didn’t allow one person’s opinion of her on-air suitability to stop her,
however. She went on to create her own talk show and by the age of thirty-two,
her show became a national hit. By the age of forty-one, she had a reported net
worth of over $340 million. Oprah has started her own magazine, radio show,
and TV network and has coauthored five books. She’s even won an Academy
Award. She’s started a multitude of charities to help people in need, including a
leadership academy for girls in South Africa.
Oprah didn’t let her childhood or her former employer take away her power. A
woman who was once teased because she was so poor she wore potato sacks as
dresses was named one of the world’s most powerful women by both CNN and
Time. Statistically, her upbringing would have predicted a poor prognosis. But
Oprah refused to be a statistic. She chose to define who she was going to be in
life by not giving away her power.
When you decide that no one else has the power to control how you feel,