One of the most popular phrases in Neolinguistic Programming (NLP) and that has become a slogan for entrepreneurs was pronounced by the well-known and remembered industrialist Henry Ford: "If you believe you can do something, you are right. And if you think you can't, you're right too". In these words we find the pure potentiality, that possibility of being that each one of us possesses and that we strengthen or limit it with our thoughts and from there we extend it to our actions.

Let us illustrate the idea with a few examples: For some time you have had the intention of starting a business. Some ideas dance in your mind (potentiality) but none of them ends up taking shape because, practically at the same time, thoughts are arriving where you say to yourself: "I can't. I can't do it:

• I can't
• That requires a lot of knowledge
• I don't have time
• I don't have the money to invest in this project.
• This is not the time, better times will come.
• There are already many people doing the same
• My talent, although I recognize it, is not enough to develop it as an enterprise...

In each of these thoughts we bury our potentiality, we do not let it breathe, we do not leave that space of possibility for the non-existent to exist, confirming that if you think you cannot, you are right, because from your being you are categorically telling yourself I cannot!

We have the opposite case which is the one that explores, feeds and develops your entrepreneurial spirit and even when circumstances and external situations, possibly, show you a "you can not", from your deepest being you say to yourself:

• I can!
• You set goals to raise money and take the first step towards entrepreneurship.
• You start to organize and plan your time to start that project you have in mind.
• You know that there is no "best time" but the time is today, where you are building what you want to crystallize.
• You know your limitations and determine what knowledge you need to strengthen.
• You know what are your abilities, skills, talents that will help you consolidate goals.

In short, you recognize and value your power, your potentiality that includes everything that is latent in you and that requires you to explore it, to take action to make your essence flourish, what you potentially are.

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All of the above leads us to another word derived from power, empowerment. Here we can distinguish its aspects: the social and the individual, where one makes the other, because as an aspect in the end, part of the same trunk: you and the social that shapes you in the interaction, in the experience.

This word for its political connotation has always caused me stinging, however, it does not cease to exist, so it is not convenient to exclude it. To feel empowered is to make reality our own and from the strengths we possess we give impulse to what we are, seeking with it the positive transformation, both personal and social, that we want. A little or a lot of: "the transformation of the world begins with you", let's not ask for changes, let's make changes, we are beings in constant expansion, then, let your actions take the best of you.

Power-Potentiality-Empowerment are three words-actions that we can develop. We all have potentialities, the power to develop them and the capacity to make them our own and with them transform realities.

In a very particular way as future entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs in action, these three concepts have a great significance, when we appropriate them and feel our power there is no one who can stop us.

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