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One useful way to conceptualize Power is the ability to achieve goals and consciously develop useful habits:

In general, cultivating power means developing control over ones behavior and increasing personal competence, capabilities, and resources.

Possessing more power than one has the maturity to handle can ruin a persons life. They will make decisions that they cannot sustain and eventually crash or burn out. Power is a curse for those who do not have the discipline and sobriety to manage it. The basic formula for safely and effectively acquiring power is to progressively achieve intelligent goals, to develop empowering habits, and to maintain those habits over long durations of time.

People who have (and effectively manage) power can achieve many goals, and difficult ones, and successfully powerful individuals have always developed a lot of useful habits. People with only a little power can achieve only a few, smaller goals, and this is where most of us start out. Just like money, the trick to getting Power is in already having some and in using it wisely. We all have power enough to identify and achieve goals that are intelligent and appropriate to out own life circumstances. This where we start.

Power comes from consistency. It is a consequence of sustained effort and smart choices. Every goal you achieve is a little more Power cultivated. Attempting goals and not quite reaching them is an important and instructional partsof the process, so dont be afraid to set difficult goals, and dont frame it as abject failure if a goal doesnt manifest the way you wanted it to. But do be honest, and set goals that are appropriate to your capabilities. Its better to set and achieve a hundred small, specific goals, over the course of years, that improve us in some minor way even though they mean nothing to anyone else, than to waste whatever power we've got plotting to walk on mars before we even have a job, or to become Mr Olympia before we even own a weight bench.

Some goals are much better than others, because they end up being more useful/beneficial over time; focus especially on those. But the important thing in the beginning is to set goals that we can achieve, and stick with them until theyre accomplished.