Have you ever had a piece of news that you felt so awesome about that you wanted to scream from the mountain tops, yet when you shared it with others the fan fair was less than motivating?  In fact, their lack luster response left you deflated.  Ever wonder why?  In my honest opinion, it's because we have forgotten the Power of One.

You may be asking the Power of One what? Belief, action, encouragement, and a various host of choice options.  Society is  attempting to condition us that our solitary actions don't impact the mindset of the multitude, but I'd challenge you that it does in so many ways. What if you knew that on the other side of your response was your own personal breakthrough, victory or blessing, would you hold back? Even if the cost was looking foolish, standing alone or feeling as if you were in a fish bowl... yes it'd be worth it.

Well, I had the opportunity recently and I went all out too!  You see I had heard some awesome news shared by some friends and I mean it was awesome.  They had been victims of the economy and the last year had been challenging to say the least.  The news they shared was so positively motivating to their situation.  When my friends shared it with a group of us we were all happy for them, but the celebration output to the news didn't match the excitement.  Then it hit me, what if we let our own challenges rob us from capturing the opportunity to rejoice with our friends?

For me the personal challenges included the fact that my car had just died without notice, my computer hard drive had failed in the middle of a project, and a person I had been depending on for support was MIA even though they said they were available.  All of these things were standing in front of me for consideration.  Multiply these with the challenges others in the group had, it was no wonder why the excitement level wasn't through the roof on the news that was just shared.  What to do...right?

I made a decision right there on the spot to make the biggest, loudest, craziest to do to celebrate with my friends that I possibly could.  Yes, it made me look a little out of sorts, but that wasn't the greatest impact.  The greater impact was  that by making the one choice to entrust all the challenges I was facing into bigger hands and choosing to make a spectacle for the sake of rejoicing with my friends, I not only enriched them, but our whole group moved to a higher level of celebration.  Wow!

Little did I know the Power of One decision was setting the tone for my own celebration the following day. As I went to begrudgingly pay the bill for my unexpected car repair.  Imagine my surprise and then excitement when I was presented with a bill that said Zero balance due.  What?!  Someone present at my previous day's celebration hearing about my dilema made a choice to be a blessing to me and had paid the bill in full.  Double wow!

Some may say that it was the Law of Attraction at work, but in that moment I knew that it was the direct result of the decision I made to stand out in the sea of commonness...the Power of One decision can change the world or at least spark someone else to exercise their own Power of One.