Power is actually one of the five basic human needs. By definition, power has to do with dominance and control. But I’m not talking about the control of one human being over another. It’s more like an example of when people tend to take things personally, but you can empower yourself to not be affected.

YOUR power, that is a basic human need, has to do with the “personal power” to not be offended or to not let someone else control YOUR emotions.

If you translate your “power need” into a personal affirmation, you might say something like, "I am in control of my life."

Translate this further into the work environment, "I am in control of the work that I do."

When we are in control of our lives or our work, are able to make decisions that impact both and we can take responsibility for our decisions.

When people feel powerless it means that the ability to come up with options and to make decisions, to control their work or things that affect their lives, have been taken away or are limited (in their minds).

So today, and every day, empower yourself to control your own life, destiny and emotions!!

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Where you see challenge from the outside, you are wrong. Where you see struggle on the inside, you are wrong.

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The video, as you'll see below, confirms a remarkable journey of faith, a reward for two guys doing the right thing. But there's more as the video eloquently points out. Any old friendship, suppressed by the aforementioned distance and time, can be resurrected by a simple call, email, or visit.

Watch the video below and after it concludes, ask yourself who is your lion? If these men could fly to Africa, brave the wild and the odds to reconnect with an old friend, can't you?

Let us know who you called.

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These videos help remind us that the impossible is often possible -if only we endeavor to make it so. As we discussed last week, failure is often the price of success.

But simply trying is the fuel for any worthwhile pursuit.

Today's amazing video exemplifies this belief, that even a simple creature can change an enormous event... with hope, effort, and in the end, the goal the little dog sought.

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Check out this kid, a brilliant Taiwanese boy who nails Whitney Houston and Dolly Parton's classic "I Will Always Love You."

Is he the next Susan Boyle?

And it is truly remarkable.

Nadia Bloom found in Florida swamp

Nadia Bloom was found by a member of her church whom she did not know, who took the most direct of paths to her location where she waited, hungry and covered in mosquito bites. Her rescuer, James King, is not a Search and Rescue professional and was working independentof the main search as other’s hopes were beginning to wane. Nadia, of course, had been missing four days in a swamp rife with alligators. Many feared the worst.

But King embarked on his solitary journey early that morning and brimming with confidence. He needed no compass.

With trail mix and drinks for the little girl he expected to find, King headed out into the swamp. All he had to do was ask God where she was.

King states that he prayed in the early parts of his trek, even when he personally felt he was headed the wrong way. At one point, King found himself surrounded by uncertain depths of swamp water. And he asked God again where Nadia might be.

"He said, 'Go that way.' And I'm looking at water. I said, 'Lord, are you sure?' He said. 'I got ya.' And as soon as I start walking, the ground under the water is solid. It's only about a foot and a half deep. He took care of me all the way there."

                                                                                                                                --- rescuer James King

Soon King heard another voice as he beckoned “Nadia!” loudly into the thick brush.

“What?” said the little girl plainly from her resting point.

And soon she would be in the arms of her previously distraught parents, safe again. Nadia states that she had prayed as well throughout her travail and that she too was confident that “God would lead her home.”

What’s most intriguing about this wonderful moment is the overwhelming evidence of intervention.  Often something happens singularly and we ascribe God’s love to the moment, that HE interceded on our behalf. And so it may be true.

But even to the harshest critic or skeptic  the evidence here is overwhelming, that a little girl praying for days to be found is indeed found, located by a member of her church she doesn’t even know but with whom she shares a common faith. And this untrained man set out on his own, without the special helicopters that could not find her or the multitude of trained experts who couldn’t either.

All James King had was a voice of extraordinary power. And that voice that he had found previously in his life assuredly helped him find the voice of a tired little girl out there in the swamp.

I also remember thinking to myself back then how Mickelson’s imperfect physical condition didn’t connote that of a super athlete. Perhaps yesterday the man showed us all a little something about the strength of his spirit.

Many of you may not know that both Mickelson’s beloved wife and his mother are battling cancer.  In fact, his beautiful wife spent most of the tournament in bed and only when his victory appeared imminent did she summon the strength to greet Phil at the 18^th hole. Their tender embrace and kiss will be long remembered, like the iconic lip-lock of the returning soldier and his girl in Times Square after WWII.

Mickelson’s feat is ironic, given the article we published yesterday about how the struggles of a butterfly to leave its cocoon enable it to fly. The struggle, the story shows, is the price we pay for greatness. Note, that story was put together long before Phil won the tournament in Augusta.

It is even more ironic that the victory comes as the world watched Tiger Woods, the media magnet who has had a tough year too, albeit for entirely different reasons. As Woods divided viewers into two camps- want him to win and don’t want him to win, Mickelson quietly executed his game plan with a lot more on his mind than his media image.

And then on one critical hole as he was putting, a leaf fell into Mickelson’s line and caused a ball headed to the hole to go in a different, shot-losing direction.  One wonders what went through Mickelson’s mind as this event changed his score and hurt his chances to win.

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But Mickelson didn’t falter, didn’t throw his club in the pond or shake his fist at The Almighty. He finished the hole, won the tournament, and told the world that adversity can be overcome, that greatness courts failure and the strength of spirit and human character will indeed endure.

We may not all have to deal with a cancer stricken wife or mother at the same time, God-willing. But we will all at some point have a flat tire on the way to work, an unexpected bill we hadn’t planned for, or even a leaf fall into our putting line.

The next time that happens to me I’m just going to take my next putt and go onto the next hole. Just like Phil Mickelson.

Lefty has done a whole lot more than simply win a Major.