We are all born with the gift of unlimited potential. Unfortunately, too many people do not realize how much personal power they have and spend years unhappy with their lives. Losing precious years which could have been used for aiming higher and growing into who they always wanted to be.
The truth is: The world is a playground of opportunities! And if you are wondering how to get there, keep reading.
Once you make it your mission to live up to your full potential, life starts feeling pretty magical – and it is never too late to start.
If you are unsure what people mean by talking about ‘your full potential,’ let me explain.
Many people have talents inside of them that they’re simply not using. Many people have big dreams buried inside of them. And even if you think that’s not you, it might be. Are you truly letting yourself dream big? There is so much you can achieve within a lifetime. Where is fear holding you back still?
When you finally let go of those fears, that is when you decide to reach for your full potential. It is a conscious decision to make, one to reaffirm to yourself many times.
You then start striving for the best possible life, with the resources that have been given to you. Unlocking your unique talents and using them to serve the world.
By becoming the best version of yourself, you create the impact you wish to have in the world.
But, you may ask, how long does it take to achieve my full potential? When do I get there? Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.
Reaching your full potential is a life-long journey and, honestly, you will never quite be ‘there’. There is no finish line, only an ongoing process. One thing leads to the next.
But trust me, the journey is incredibly rewarding. When you stop perceiving the inner work as a chore, you will find opportunity instead. An opportunity to create the life you want to be living.
Get ready to adopt a growth mindset. Do not hold onto the life you have known, for letting go is necessary for making space for the new.
Think about it, how wonderful the humble realization that you will never be done learning is. It simply means that you will keep discovering more magic within yourself.
Living up to our true potential, that is the arbitrary point of maximum achievement in our lives is daunting and rarely inspiring. How can one possibly live up to their “full” potential without the benefit of hindsight? Even if we are doing our best, we might make mistakes or incorrect decisions. This true potential implies that success, happiness and fulfillment, are linked to achieving our “full potential”. Seeing as this full potential is always just out of reach, extending this line of thinking says that we will not be happy or fulfilled unless we reach it. This is why I think this statement actually demotivates a lot of people.
Doing our full potential implies that we are going to do our best to grow and improve ourselves. This statement puts the pressure on the present, not the impossibly huge context of our whole lives. In this sense, as long as we are doing the best we possibly can, we are successful. We can always do our best, regardless of a specific outcome.
By focusing on doing our full potential we can experience maximum growth and improvement in our lives. From this improvement and growth we can achieve happiness and fulfillment. Knowing we are doing the best we can is enough to satisfy. From this context I would say that a recovering alcoholic doing his best to improve his life is more successful than someone who has settled into an average life.
Our full potential in the course of our lives is often at the mercy of different factors we cannot control. If we were to suddenly die tomorrow, I wouldn’t say that where we our right now was our full potential. Furthermore, this full potential gets us to strive towards a point, rather than focusing on the growth and direction itself.
This concept of success as being an arbitrary point is prevalent in the way we set goals. I often hear about people who say that they weren’t any happier after achieving their goals than they were before. These people would often go on to claim that the problem was with goal setting entirely.
The fact is, the real problem is that they believed success (happiness and fulfillment) was linked with an arbitrary point, rather than the rate of their own growth. The reason you set goals is to increase your velocity, to increase the rate of your growth, not just to achieve a specific milestone, or position, in that development. It may seem odd that the purpose of goal setting isn’t just to achieve the goal, but rather to get us to push beyond our normal expectations, but it is very true.
I believe that many people who like this expression already use it in the way I describe as doing instead of reaching a point. For those people I think you’ve already got the right idea. Focus on how you can do your best right in this moment. As long as you are doing that, you are successful.
There’s nobody else out there like you. We are an accumulation of our experiences, genetics, decisions, dreams. And we all come with different skill sets as well as unique perspectives on life.
Find out what it is that makes you YOU. There is something that you do better than anyone else. If you’re unsure what that can be, look for it.
You could explore the following questions:
- What are you proud of?
- Which experiences shaped you?
- Which skills do you already have or what are you working on?
- Were there any hardships you have overcome?
- How can you use those things to serve others?
And just like your unique essence, what your full potential looks like is unique to you. There is no blueprint. It is all up to you. And the more authentically you follow your own vision, the more rewarding the journey will feel.If you have read this far, the part of you that wants to be doing this must be powerful.
And hey, I believe in you.
Today is the best day to start living with intention. Things may change along the way, and this is okay. You can simply go with the flow, doing the best you can.
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