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O's Power Trip: How to Tap into Your Power and Make It Work for You
One definition doesn't do it justice—because real power, like most things multifaceted and complex, is best viewed from many perspectives. Look at it this way, and it's innate. Look at it that way, and it's learned. Over here, it's all about the body. Over there, it's a state of mind. It can be stealthy and quiet. Or vivacious and loud. Transgressive or inclusive. In fact, power can be so many things that we're holding it up to the light, the better to see them all.


What I Know for Sure 
"When your life is on course with its purpose, you are your most powerful." 
— Oprah
The O Power List
20 remarkable visionaries who wear their power in 20 unique ways
8 Ways of Looking at Power
Its femininity, its neuropsychology, its relationship to money, even how it dresses to go to Paris
3 Ways to Help Empower Women
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have suggestions.
How to Find Your True Power
Martha Beck shows you a way to lose the feeling of helplessness
Suze's Rules to Gain Control
What money has taught her about self-worth.
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