Feeling powerless?

• Organizational hierarchy can foster dependency.
• Are you frustrated by your lack of career progress?
• Do you feel driven by the demands of others? No rights of your own?
• Feeling like you can't do anything about it?
• Except to work where there is less pressure.
• Do you feel like rebelling against those who have all the power?
• Focusing on things we can't change can be self-defeating.
• We say that THEY are to blame for how we feel. This is false. They might be able to make us do things, but no one can make us feel anything we don't want to feel.

We can always ask ourselves:

• What can I do differently?
• How can I reframe my situation?
• Can you change how you react to things?
• Can you reframe how you see yourself and your role?
• Do you see yourself as an employee? Can you view yourself as running a business offering services to internal customers?
• As a business, you sell services, devise new ones and seek new customers.
• If you have something valuable to sell, everything is negotiable.
• By re-framing your role, can you see having more power than you thought?
• Your success is only limited by your creativity in marketing yourself, developing new services and cultivating new customers.
• Once you see yourself in this way, it's clear who's in charge.
• You are running your own business, so your success is up to you.
• This does not give you more power than your customers but it could help you see them as partners rather than as all powerful tyrants.
• This might be scary, but it can also be liberating. Seeing how you can take action is a lot better than feeling powerless.