Determine your center.

Determine whether your life is money-, family-, work-, spouse-, pleasure-, possession-, church-, friend-, enemy-, and/or self-centered.  The ideal is to create one clear center from which you consistently derive a high degree of security, guidance, wisdom, and power.  Steven R Covey

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom and power.

• Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
• Guidance means your source of direction in life.  Encompassed by your map, your internal frame of reference that interprets for you what is happening out there, are standards or principles or implicit criteria that govern moment by moment decision-making and doing.
• Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, you understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.  It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension.  It is a gestalt or oneness, an integrated wholeness.
• Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.  It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions.  It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate high, more effective ones.

Each of us has a center, though we usually don't recognize it as such.  Neither do we recognize the all-encompassing effects of that center on every aspect of our lives.  Identifying our center may not be easy.  We are a combination of the above and it depends on internal and external influences.  

The ideal, of course, is to create one clear center from which you consistently derive a high degree of security, guidance, wisdom, and power, empowering your pro activity and giving congruency and harmony to every part of your life.  By centering and living a principled centered life, we don't react to outside forces, we know what we should and should not be doing, we live life effectively.  

As a principle centered person, you see, think, act differently, because you have a high degree of security, guidance  wisdom, and power that flows from a solid, unchanging core, you have the foundation of a highly proactive and highly effective life.

Finding the power withing yourself can start with taking care of yourself.