OB-Reflection Strengthen Others Scenarios 1

Scenarios 1:
Thinking of a time when, as a direct result of something a leader said or did, you felt personally powerful and capable. write down the actions the leader took that contributed to your feeling powerful, strong, capable. and effective - the master of your own experence. Be as specific as you can.

The leader's name is Orison Swett Marden, he was an American writer associated with the New Thought Moverment. He also held a degree in medicine and a successful hotel owner. He once had a quote, which I personally felt powerful and capable, and I really want to share this. He said:" The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or help of others, it is in yourself alone." The first time I read this was from my son's camp flyers, then I am so wondering who he is, and what he had experienced made him quoting this, then I went to internet and search his informaiton. Orison Marden was born in Thornton Gore, New Hampshire to Lewis and Martha Marden. When he was three years old, his mother died at the age of 22, leaving Orison and his two sisters to the care of their father, a farmer, hunter and trapper. When Orison was seven years old, his father died from injuries incurred while in the wood, and the children were shuttled from one gardian to another, with Orison working as a hired boy to earn his keep. All the tragedies didn't beat him down, he set out to improve himself and his life circumstances. He persevered in advancing himself and graduated from Boston University in 1871. He later graduated from Harvard with MD and LL B later. Then he created the New Thought Movement., he focused on the subjects of success, the cultivation of will-power, and positive thinking. Marden believed that our thoughts influence our lives and our life circumstances. I couldn't completely understand what he really meant when I read his quote for the first time, then time by time, little by little, now I knew what he exactly would like to express. The biggest war field is in people's mind. What you are becoming is more important than what you are accomplishing. We always struggle for higher level life, but we fairly think what we are really in need. A positive mental attitude makes my life happier.