Why You’re Still Stuck | Wealth Consciousness & Standing in Your Power

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Tina Brinkley Potts, and I believe now is the time to

step boldly into your power, walk in divine

wisdom, and claim the life you were meant to live.

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Welcome to Happy, Healthy, Whole, and Rich. I'm Tina Brinkley

Potts, and I know who I play for.

Today we are starting something, a

7-part series called Standing in Your Power,

and I want to begin right here by telling you what

this series is not about. It's not about pretending

life is perfect. Or that

toxic positivity or acting like hard things

don't happen. It's not about being unbothered in

a way that isn't real. This series is about

something deeper than that, something more

honest than that. And today I want to start with the

foundation— what standing in your power actually

means— because most people have it wrong.

Let's go to Proverbs 4:23.

Above all else, guard your heart, for

everything you do flows from it. Above all else.

Not above some things, not when it's convenient.

Above all else. Now, I used to read

that verse and think it was about protecting myself from

other people. From their negativity, their

intentions, their energy. But the

older I get, the more I understand that the heart

this verse is talking about isn't just something that

receives. It's something that generates.

Everything you do flows from it. Your

decisions flow from it. Your relationships

flow from it. Your business flows from it.

Your responses to disappointment and betrayal,

delay and loss— all of it flows

from what's living in your heart. So

guarding your heart isn't just about keeping bad things

out. It's about being intentional about what

you're generating from the inside. Because what's

inside you is always producing something.

That's standing in your power, and it starts

there inside. I want

to tell you about a conversation I had that I will

never forget. I was working with a client,

a brilliant woman. She had a big vision, real

talent, and every single session

We would start making progress, and then somewhere in the

middle of it, the conversation would shift.

To her mother, to her ex, to the

employer who passed her over, to the friend

who betrayed her confidence, to the industry

that didn't see her coming. And she could tell

every one of those stories with precision.

Dates, details, exactly what was said and who

said it. She had the receipts going back

years. And I sat with her one day and I

said something that I knew might land

hard. I said, you are the most

articulate person about everything that has happened

to you that I have ever met. And as long as

all of that is true, none of it is ever going to

change. She got quiet.

I wasn't dismissing what she had been through.

I want to be clear about that. The things that

happened to her were very real. The pain

was real. The people who let her down, they let

her down. That part wasn't a story.

But here's the part I wanted her to see.

She had built an entire identity around being

someone things happened to, and that

identity, as painful as it was, had

become comfortable. Because as long as someone

else was responsible for where she was, She

didn't have to be responsible for where she was going.

That's the trap, and it is one of the most

loving-looking traps there is

because it always comes wrapped in truth. Something

real did happen. Someone really did wrong you.

The circumstance really was unfair.

But you cannot stand in your power from inside that

story. You just can't.

Power is not absence of hard things. Power is

what you do with your agency after the hard thing

happens. When Solomon wrote,

guard your heart, for everything flows from it, I

believe he was warning us about exactly this.

Because here's what happens When we don't guard our heart,

we let the narrative of what happened to us move in

and take up permanent residence. We water it,

we tend it, we tell it to everyone who will

listen until it becomes the lens through which we see

everything new. A new opportunity

looks like a setup from another disappointment. A

new relationship looks like someone who will eventually leave.

A new season looks like something that will probably be

taken away. That is not discernment.

That is a heart that hasn't been guarded. That is

yesterday's pain writing today's story.

Standing in your power begins with the decision to

evict the narratives that are generating outcomes

you don't want. Not to deny that they happened,

but to stop letting them author your next

chapter. Ernest Holmes

taught that the subjective mind, what we might call

the subconscious, has no ability to

reject what you give it. It simply

accepts and builds. It is,

as he described it, an obedient servant that works with

whatever material you hand it. So when

you hand it a story about everything that has been done to you,

it builds a life that matches that story.

Not to punish you, not because you deserve it,

but because that is the law. It produces what you

plant. Neville Goddard said, you

are already that which you want to be, and your

refusal to believe this is the only reason you do

not see it. Let's read that again

slowly. Your refusal to

believe it is the only reason you don't see it.

Not the person who hurt you, not the system

that was unfair, or that the timing was off.

Your belief, your concept of

yourself, that is the operating variable.

Now, I know that might feel like a lot of weight to

carry, but I want you to flip it.

Because if your belief is the variable, then your

belief is also the lever. And the lever is

not a burden. The lever is power.

James Allen wrote in As a Man Thinketh,

circumstance does not make the man.

It reveals him to himself. Whatever

has happened to you is revealing something.

The question standing in your power to ask is,

what do you want it to reveal from here? What do you

want to be made visible about who you are

and how you respond, how you rise, how you

refuse to be defined by what Tried to

define you. That is the metaphysics of

power. It was never about what happened to you.

It was always about what you do with the creative

authority you still have in this moment.

I want you to get honest with yourself right now. Not

harsh, not critical, just honest.

Think about the area of your life where you feel the most

stuck, the thing that hasn't moved the way you

wanted it to, the situation that feels unresolved.

Now ask yourself this first question:

who or what do I blame for this? Write it

down. Don't filter it, just let it come out.

The person, the circumstance, the system, the timing—

get it all on paper. Now the second question:

What has holding that story cost me?

Not what they did. What holding on to it has

cost you in time, in energy,

in opportunities you might have missed while you were looking

backward. Be specific.

Third, what would I have to believe about myself to move

forward from here without needing them to be different

first? This is the real one, because

standing in your power almost always

requires that you stop waiting for someone else

to change, apologize, or be held

accountable before you give yourself permission to move.

Fourth, what is one thing Just one

that is fully within my control

right now. Not their behavior, not the

economy, not what already happened. What is yours

to do right now? And finally,

if I operated as someone who was not defined

by what happened to me, what would my next move be?

Write that answer down. And then consider making it

your first move this week. Here's what

I want to leave you with today. Standing in your

power is not a destination. It is a

daily decision, and it starts with the most

courageous thing a human being can do,

which is to look at your own life and say, I

am responsible for what Happens next.

Not because everything was my fault, but because I

refuse to outsource my future to

my past. Something may have happened to you.

Maybe a lot of things happened to you. I am not here to

minimize any of it, but I am here

to tell you that you were built for more than

a life organized around what was done to you. You

have creative authority. You have agency.

You have the same power that Solomon was talking about

when he said everything flows from your heart.

Guard it. Tend it. Be intentional

about what you are generating from the inside, because

that is where your power lives. This is

just the beginning. Over the next 6 episodes,

we're going to go deeper into the tools, the

phrases, the practices, and the identity

work that makes standing in your power not just a

concept, but a way of living. I'm glad you're here,

and I know who I play for. Until the next

time, be happy, be healthy,

be whole. And most importantly, be

rich in love, rich in peace, and rich in

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