Self-Sovereignty: The Radical New Way to Take Control of Your Life

sovereignty makes you a beacon, your light shines for all to see

Beep. A beacon’s signal is sent out. Beep. The beacon’s light shines for all to see. Beep. The beacon’s call summons the people looking for it.

If the beacon had no signal — no light, no sound, nothing to announce its presence — it would have no usefulness. A hidden beacon does no one any good.

You’ve been given light. You’ve been given a voice. Are you doing the most with it, or trying to hide the fact that you’re here?

How Long Must I Persist To Achieve Success? – archely

Of course, the logical answer is that you want to shine your light for all to see. And yet, I’ve seen plenty of people (myself included) shy away from standing clearly in who they are, because of stories in their past.

If you’ve been given the message in your life that you don’t count, or that you should just be quiet (the old “seen, not heard” dogma), or that people don’t want to know what you have to say, then you’ve most likely got old stories playing in your psyche that tell you it’s best if you don’t take up space.

But taking up space is what you’re here to do; in fact, you can’t be of much use to others if you don’t.

Let’s take a trip down memory lane…

Here’s a word you probably haven’t heard since high school: sovereignty. To be sovereign can mean two things: “autonomous”, like a country is when it sets its own borders (thank you Mr. Kaplan, my high school geography teacher), and “ruler”, as in a nation’s head of state, the one with the highest power or status within the country.

To be successful— purposeful, peaceful, and working at your potential—you’ve got to have both angles of sovereignty covered.

• When you’re autonomous, it means you make your own decisions. Naturally, you’d like to think you make your own decisions already. On the most basic level, you do. And then again… how often are you set to do something, and then a comment by a friend, colleague, or so-called expert has you throwing away your choice in favor of their idea?
• When you’re the sovereign, or ruler, it means you’re in charge, and you call the shots. As someone in charge of your own business, you have that by default… but, do you really? How willing are you to concede control to someone you think knows better? Do you trust your sense of where you should steer your business more than you listen to criticisms and popular trends?

Sovereignty is a process, not a concept that you grasp and then the conversation ends. Living with sovereignty means growing beyond the voices of your past that tell you it’s best not to be noticed, to be in charge, or to speak up for yourself.

Whether it’s running a business with sovereignty, owning your half of a relationship, or being taken seriously as a parent, sovereignty happens when you recognize that you deserve to occupy the space you occupy. That you have just as much a right to be heard as anyone else does. And that independent of anything else, your work, your contribution, your voice, has value.

Can you say that about your message? Your business? Yourself?

When you can, not only will you have much more peace in your heart as you work, but you’ll also be much more attractive to the patrons out there who need your work. Because deep down, we all want to feel sovereign in our own way. When you stand as a beacon of sovereignty in your life, it provides a strength of conviction that’s attractive to others, and people will come to you to learn your secret.