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How to Become Powerful Beyond Measure

Break your mental limits and become unstoppable

Ayodeji Awosika
5 min readDec 17, 2019

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We all have quotes that hit us in a deep and profound way. The (partial) quote below serves that purpose for me. I come back to it at moments in my life where I doubt myself, feel weak, feel insecure, or am stopping short of what I’m really capable of.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.

We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small
Does not serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking
So that other people won’t feel insecure around you.” — Marrianne Williamson

I think about this often — how much I personally fear to be “powerful beyond measure,” and this is coming from someone who feels pretty powerful. These days, I’m focused and content, but I still want…

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Ayodeji Awosika
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