The ability to keep on top of things and to keep composure under pressure. The ability to control emotions when things don’t work out the way you would have liked. Feeling you’re at the helm, steering life in your direction. Concentration on the goals you’ve set eventually guarantees you’re consistently moving in the desired direction.

The ability to recover from setbacks and to cope with temporary failure. The perseverance to focus on the goal at hand when challenges arise, when unexpected situations impede progress, and when you feel stressed.

Drive to push forward and excel. Competing with yourself, overcoming previous limitations, or competing with others. Continuously looking for growth opportunities that break you out of your box of routine. Treating fear and uncertainty as part of the process of learning.

Feeling that everything will work out. Ability to succeed in achieving something difficult. Optimism that you'll master a situation, with the use of your own skills, or with a deep rooted belief that things will go your way, or with a feeling of luck or happy coincidence as if experiencing an invisible helping hand.

The ability to be a team player. How easily you connect with others and are liked. The wisdom to understand that others can add strength where you have weakness and to proactively seek to surround yourself with people that give feedback on your blind spots.

The use of your energy to maintain a healthy balance. Empowered energy use is about maintaining a healthy body, maintaining healthy relationships that enrich you, and selectively focusing your energy to learn and grow.

The ability to look at life and your circumstances from a higher perspective, a meta position, where you’re able to look at yourself and how you behave with others. Regularly questioning yourself and your behaviour and changing behaviour accordingly.