Activate Your Power: How to Unlock Your Full Potential and Direct Your Own Success

By Eitan Sharir

We all possess a natural and authentic power that we can access at will once we know how. Activate Your Power is a personal leadership guide to achieving a more fulfilling life through effective decision-making and the power of intention.
Building on his many years of experience with the corporate world and his wide exposure to human behaviour, Eitan Sharir has developed a set of innovative tools and techniques for unlocking your full potential and directing your own success. Activate your Power provides real-life examples and simple, practical exercises and tools, to help you refocus your attention, change your perspective and improve your life!

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Whether you read this book in your corporate persona, striving to be both successful and ethical, or whether you read it as an individual, I sincerely believe that Activate Your Power will be a valuable positive catalyst in your life.

I have had the good fortune to have worked with Eitan Sharir and have seen the positive effects of his approach to coaching and leadership. Activate Your Power is an inspiring book that offers practical strategies that enable the reader to re-awaken the power and potential that resides within a book that will genuinely change your approach to life and business -- for the better.

This book is about helping us understand that each of us has the power to achieve success regardless of our environment Its about holding ourselves accountable for our own lives, and not blaming someone, or something else for the struggles or failures we experience. Reading this book will help you learn how to improve your life, professionally and personally The concepts that Eitan talks about have made a major contribution to the mindset of all of our employees and have helped our organization achieve wonderful results.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 2, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452016795

Eitan Sharir

Based in Vancouver, B.C., Eitan Sharir is a highly respected business advisor, leadership management coach, accomplished keynote speaker and founder of Dynamic Achievement Group, an organization committed to corporate leadership excellence.  With his in-depth knowledge of human behavior and his charismatic and highly captivating style, Eitan provides a unique approach to corporate development.  He has extensive international experience as a consultant and coach and offers effective strategies for sustainable transformation.  Eitan has worked with clients to successfully merge multiple cultures into a cohesive single culture with significant increases in revenue, employee engagement, market share and bottom-line results.  In addition, his clients report higher levels of productivity, reduced safety-related issues and overall employee satisfaction. 

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© 2011 Eitan Sharir. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse 02/03/2011

ISBN: 978-1-4520-1679-5 (e)

ISBN: 978-1-4520-1677-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4520-1678-8 (hc)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010906178

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

Acknowledgments

This book was made possible by the support and encouragement of many people who have helped me along the way. I specifically want to thank the following people:

My wife, Meghan, whose unwavering love, support, and commitment has helped me to fulfill my biggest dreams and aspirations. I thank her also for her suggestions and creativity and for undertaking the task of editing this book to its current form.

My caring parents, loving sisters, and three beautiful children, who constantly remind me how precious life really is.

Lee Johnson for helping to transform the original content of this book into a well-presented and readable format.

And finally, all my clients, who inspired me through their focus, dedication, and actions to write this book.

Table of Contents

Foreword

About This Book

Part I Harness Your Energy

Chapter 1. Listen to Your Wake-Up Call

My Own Story

What Do You Need to Wake You Up?

Understanding What Drives Us

Connecting the Dots

Identifying Your Obstacles

Chapter 2. Design a Meaningful Life

Finding Your Purpose

Maintaining the Focus

Using Your Purpose to Design Your Life

Purpose and Perspective

The Normal Horizontal Perspective

The Extreme Horizontal Perspective

Moving to the Vertical

The Vertical Perspective

Chapter 3. Understand Your Biggest Obstacle

Welcome to the Ego!

The Ego Illustrated

Understand Your Ego

Characteristics of the Ego

Dealing with the Ego

How the Ego Operates

The Greatest Secret About the Ego

The Authentic, Vertical Self

Chapter 4. Charge Your Quantum Magnet

The Body Is an Energy Field

The Quantum Magnet (The Law of Attraction)

How to Attract the Life You Want

Mastering Your Own Mind

Part II Activate Your Power

Chapter 5. Manage Your Emotions

What Emotions Are at Work in Your Life?

Choose the Vertical Response

Reacting vs. Responding

Changing Old Negative Programs

Responding Positively

Face Your Fears

Put Down Your Rock

Chapter 6. Change Your Outlook

The Energy Factor

Things You Have to Do Each Day

Balance and Dynamic Tension

How to Achieve a Sense of Balance

The Power of Perspective

The Outlook Shift Formula

Turning the Outlook Switch

No Attachment

Chapter 7. Be the Chooser

Control vs. Constriction

Choose Your Response

Taking Back Your Power

Changing from Horizontal to Vertical Momentum

How Can I Be Sure to Choose the Vertical Response?

The Consequences of Choosing None of the Above

Chapter 8. Be Real

Bondage to Your Self-Created Image

The Gap Between the Desired Image and the Real Me

So, What Is the Solution?

Clearing the Path to Freedom

Chapter 9. Share Your Gifts

Stop Waiting

Being Grateful

The Power of Forgiving

The Ego’s Reaction to Giving 100 Percent

Abundance vs. Scarcity Mentality

Let’s Revisit the Horizontal and Vertical Perspectives

Tuning Your Quantum Magnet

Chapter 10. The Time Is Now

Live in the Present, not the Past or the Future

There Is no Magic Pill

The Dots Are Connected

Do the Right Thing

This Is Your Call to Action

Recommended Reading

Foreword

In his description of man’s archetypal journey, Joseph Campbell describes how we meet people along the way who are serendipitously important to our own personal mission.

On such a journey, I met Eitan Sharir.

He had asked my advice on doing business in Vancouver, and I had confessed that I was probably the wrong person to be talking to. I described the problems my business partner and I had encountered just a few years before in trying to get the local business community to accept the principles behind our latest book, The Quest for the Corporate Soul—namely, that true success in business is inextricably intertwined with personal consciousness and spiritual integrity. After sowing our seed on apparently barren ground, we eventually despaired of ever harvesting a bountiful crop.

However, within less than two years of arriving, Eitan had made an art of combining business with soul. He succeeded where we had failed. And not only did he succeed in attracting more business than he could handle, but his client testimonials were glowing in praise of his work.

I was fascinated. How had he done it? Suddenly, the teacher had become the pupil. And so, when Eitan asked me to help him get his ideas written down and published, I was more than eager to participate.

As the book Activate Your Power began to take shape, I got to know Eitan on several levels. First, he is one of the most persuasive people I have met. What makes him so good is how passionately he believes in what he is doing and how absolutely sincere he is in wanting to do the best for each of his clients.

Second, that passion for giving 100 percent extends beyond his working day. Eitan really strives to be a positive influence on everyone around him, not only involving them in his own enthusiasm and thereby inspiring a greater effort, but also inviting companionship on his own journey toward authenticity and higher consciousness. I have been privileged to share many evenings with Eitan and others who seek to light a candle rather than curse the darkness.

Finally, I have shared with Eitan that level of vulnerability and admission of imperfection that intermittently reminds us of our own humanness, and—if heeded—leads to humbleness and authenticity. We have taught each other and learned from each other. My own greatest gift in helping Eitan with his book is that it has also helped fulfill my own purpose of leaving this world a better place than it was when I came into it.

Whether you read this book in your corporate persona, striving to be both successful and ethical, or whether you read it as an individual seeking your highest self, I sincerely believe that Activate Your Power will be a valuable, positive catalyst in your life.

Lee Johnson

Author of Penguin Books #1 best seller

How to Escape Your Comfort Zones,

and author and co-creator of

The Quest for the Corporate Soul

About This Book

This book is about power and choices. More precisely, it’s about choosing to reawaken the power that lies within you so that you can achieve a more meaningful, purposeful, and fulfilling life—life at home, life at work, life in general. All of us possess a natural and authentic power that we can access at will when we know how. It is not reserved for only a few lucky or chosen ones; it’s held by all and available to all. As we learn how to access, or activate this power, the quality of our life experience transforms to something higher, bigger, better.

We humans have been created with the capacity for higher consciousness, which not only enables us to conceive our dreams and aspirations but also to pursue them with creativity and determination. With access to our innate power, we can change our own lives as well as improve the world around us. It is, therefore, our responsibility to use our power wisely and not waste it on useless distractions that sap our energy and create destruction and unhappiness.

Activating your power begins with you. It begins with a choice that you, that I, that we all need to make if we truly want to improve the quality of our life, our success, and our happiness. It’s a choice that transcends mere survival and catapults us to a level of experience that is inspiring, abundant, joyful, and fulfilling.

This book was born from a personal wake-up call that I received in my early thirties—a serious call to action that profoundly changed my life and how I experienced it. Following that incident, I developed a fascination with the human condition and began to immerse myself in the study of human dynamics. Soon, my fascination grew into a passion that propelled me to explore the real meaning and purpose of life.

I observed and studied thousands of people from all walks of life, socioeconomic levels, and communities—people with different nationalities, belief systems, cultures, and backgrounds. It quickly became clear to me that despite all their diversity, most people share a common sense that something is missing from their lives.

This discovery, combined with my disillusionment with my own culture’s popular formulas for success, prompted me to delve deeper into this common human experience in search of answers. I wanted to know what it was that people were lacking; what exactly was missing from their lives? And then, I wanted to find out how to get it.

In this book, I share what I have discovered. By making sense of these discoveries and connecting the dots, you will gain a true sense of how aspects of your life fit together. You will learn how to harness and activate the powerful life energy that is available to you now, improve your relationships at work and at home, and live a more meaningful and successful life (by your own standards). You will be given the opportunity to explore your own feelings and attitudes, or put into practice new tools, through short, practical exercises scattered throughout the book and marked with the symbol missing image file . The purpose of this book is to help you, the reader, achieve the life that you want.

I do not profess to have all the answers or to know the only way. I believe that there are many ways or paths to success and happiness. What I have outlined in this book is a way that I believe is practical, workable, and most important, achievable.

I invite you to activate your power now, for your sake and for the sake of those around you.

I wish you every success.

Eitan Sharir

Part I

Harness Your Energy

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Chapter 1

Listen to Your Wake-Up Call

My Own Story

For most of my life, I was glad to be normal. Society taught me that to be the same as most people was good and safe; others would like me, and I would live a happy life. This belief influenced most of my choices and actions and, without my conscious awareness, also instilled fear and self-doubt in me for many years. I worked so hard to please others, to get the approval of others, and to be accepted that I lost touch with my true self. I became accepted rather than real.

I worked hard and played hard, got married and had many friends. After earning two university degrees in commerce, I worked even harder, growing increasingly successful and, at the age of thirty-one, became managing director of a company specializing in retail information technology.

Life was good. I was following a normal and predictable path.

People said that I was a high achiever who had it all: an enviable career, a good family, my health, and a great future ahead of me. In order to be normal, I looked brave and strong and didn’t show anyone that I wasn’t perfect. But, despite what everyone said—and despite what I might have projected on the outside—inside, I always had a whole collection of fears that I wasn’t sharing with anyone. Fear of failure. Fear of not making it. Fear of not being smart enough. Fear of not being a somebody. Fear of success. Fear of death. Fear of people finding out that I was not perfect. Fear of… …

At that time, my life was mainly driven by external events, circumstances, and situations. What happened on the outside had a large influence on what happened on my inside. If people liked me, I felt great. If people didn’t like me, I felt concerned, even rejected. I was very attached to things, and the mere thought of anything being taken away produced stress and more fear.

And then, something devastating happened that changed my life forever.

One of my friends, Peter, was an ultra marathon runner, extremely fit and healthy, with a great attitude about life. He had a wonderful wife and two young children, and it seemed that nothing could be more perfect than his life. Then, one Friday afternoon at work, I got a phone call, telling me that doctors had diagnosed Peter with advanced cancer of the colon. They’d found a huge lump that had to be removed immediately.

When I heard the news of my friend’s illness, something important was triggered inside me and became the catalyst for a serious evaluation of my own life. The rest of that Friday, my mind and heart were in turmoil as I went through an intense period of self-confrontation.

The next day I took the time to sit down in a quiet place and ask myself a series of profound questions that would later transform my whole existence.

What is life all about? Who am I? What am I doing? Why am I doing it?

I looked hard at my current life, asking myself questions about all aspects, such as my friends, my spouse, my social situation. I had a good rapport with most people I knew but realized that many were acquaintances rather than friends. A sense of obligation rather than