When I’m empowered, it gave me power to make choices, to make decisions and deliver the final outcome. It’s like the pilot flying a passenger plane where he is empowered by all the passengers and crew. Whether he will deliver flying to the destination and landing has a lot to do with his decisions in the sky during the flight.
On the other hand, when we are on a roller coaster ride, we would have to a certain extent, empowered the people behind the control of the roller coaster. Whether the train will de-rail depends a lot on the maintenance team. Could that explain why we fear while riding the roller coaster? Hence, in life handing over or empowering someone else for a short period of time, say six months to do a project is frequent. You would have to hand over control to that someone who will bring you through like a roller coaster journey, sometime exciting with adrenaline pumping as you ride the roller coaster of inefficiency in him with you screaming off your head for not meeting the deadline. Sometime calm as the project is up and on time, just like when the roller coaster coast along a straight path.
Hence, in summary, when empowerment takes place, be prepared for a roller coaster ride. Have a feel of the roller coaster emotional ride in this 3:54 video clip.
Often empowerment is really someone giving it so that you can do things for them.
Thanks Anthony for commenting. I’ve done some editing.
Yes! Empowerment can be a roller-coaster ride of energy! It can be quite wild! Not always a controlled one!
Interesting write!
Smiles and Light
I find it interesting that empowerment comes from others and not ourselves.
beautiful take on the prompt, you sat it so well
I do think it comes from within us.
teachers bleed too
I think empowerment comes from within. But the roller coaster analogy – when power or control is in someone else’s hands – is excellent.
Well done and provocative piece – I didn’t watch the clip – I didn’t think I wanted to allow a roller coaster to instill fear! Grin. I hate those things!
Clever and thought provoking. Neat, but I gave the clip a miss! I’ve just eaten.
In what ever way we draw empowerment, be it from outside or within us, we are always in for an exciting roller coaster ride. Sometimes it takes us to a brief course, others take us to a long exciting journey to forever. Just make sure that when we are empowered to hold on to it – or like in the classic line: hold on to your seat.
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
Great post! …and thank you for the video…
Thanks for all the comment. I love the ride. With eyes closed…..