#471: 100 Key Points on Making the Most of Your Potential
Eric Garner
Author of 37 books on soft skills, founder of ManageTrainLearn and 6 e-learning websites, creator of 22,000+ e-learning resources, all free to access or download, owner of daily "People Skills" newsletter
100 one-liners to help you learn and remember the key points of maximising your potential.
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The pull to maximise our potential has to overcome the pull towards staying where we are.
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Managing self-discovery at minimum risk is the purpose of self-development.
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Happiness is linked to the achievement of goals.
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Talented people are those who have found a way to use their natural gifts.
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We are all talented in one way or another.
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Our talents are gifted to us, it is up to us to make the best of them.
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Potential is the mix of talent, personal drive and opportunity.
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We are all capable of becoming our own kind of geniuses.
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Self-development is not a task others do for you; you have to do it to yourself.
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The natural inclination of organisations is to employ people who want to be led.
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The mature person has varied interests and is willing to develop them in the long-term.
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Psychologically, we are at any one time in a state of survival, maintenance or development.
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Survival means just managing to beat off the forces that threaten to overwhelm us.
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Maintenance means keeping ourselves afloat but without any real purpose in life.
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Development means moving out of safety and taking risks.
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Teams and organisations can be in states of survival, maintenance and development just as individuals can.
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We are who we are as a result of what we inherit, how we are raised and what we make up our minds to become.
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Self-developers believe we can become anything we want to be within the limits of our environment.
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Self-developers accept that change is the nature of the world and the opportunity to grow.
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In any unsatisfactory situation in life, there is only one certainty and that is that you can change yourself.
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Potential is a mental attitude resulting in a physical force.
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The three key mental attitudes that self-developers possess are: faith, hope and security.
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Just as every individual has a potential waiting to be developed, so does every situation.
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Developing potential requires a positive mental attitude.
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Developing potential means combining attitude with action.
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Most of the limitations on what each of us can do in our lives are self-imposed in our minds.
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Personal growth is not possible without strong foundations.
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The route to a goal invariably consists of disappointment, frustration and failure.
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Dogged persistence is the fuel that drives us towards our goals.
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If we set our course on clear goals and take action, adjusting as we go, we cannot but succeed.
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The potential of a workplace team is the one untapped resource in most organisations.
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Any sort of self-research such as diaries and life charts can help us gain insight into our likes and preferences.
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The shortcut to awareness of your potential is to discover your strengths.
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Techniques such as Yin-Yang emphasise the importance of balance in what we do.
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Most of us define who we are more by our jobs than anything else.
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Our jobs provide an indication of what we prefer to spend our time doing.
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Goal-setting is the one activity that distinguishes self-developers from those who just get by.
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Goal-setting puts us in control of our lives.
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Goal-setting tells us the score; now we can get on and enjoy the game.
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Every goal is created twice: once in your head and then in your acts.
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When you write your goals down, you increase your commitment to them.
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Goals should be based on strengths and fuelled by opportunities.
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When you set big goals, you attract big resources.
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Goals should be just out of sight but not out of reach.
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We achieve our goals when we get passionate about them.
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Goals should be set in behavioural terms that we can determine.
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Goals should be expressed in positive not negative terms.
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Our goals should benefit others and only incidentally ourselves.
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Goals should be based on principles which are ultimately more important than achieving the goal itself.
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A work goal ought to harmonize with what we want in other parts of our lives.
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Keep the possible pathways to your goal open and flexible.
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Set time frames within which you'd like to achieve your goals but don't be restricted by them.
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Programming means letting our brains know constantly what our goal is.
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The brain is a self-directing mechanism that is best left to get on with its work alone.
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Affirmations are present-tense statements of you reaching your goals.
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Visualisations allow us to see what things will be like when we achieve our goals.
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We increase our motivation to reach our goals when we associate them with pleasure and rewards.
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As-if practice allows us to run through exactly what things will be like when we have achieved our goals.
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Positive suggestion is a reminder that each day we are moving nearer our goals.
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Energy is the capacity of a material body to do work.
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Exercise is a reminder that we can act and not just be acted upon.
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Aerobic exercise increases the amount of blood in circulation and this creates more energy.
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Deep breathing oxygenates each cell in our bodies, removes waste and creates a healthy bloodstream.
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Diet can make a significant difference to your energy levels.
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When we break free of self-imposed limitations, we create our own mental energy.
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Excusitis is the habit of finding reasons why we can't reach our goals.
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Setbacks are not reasons for giving up on our goals but chances to re-group and soldier on.
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We can turn negative worry about whether things will work out into positive worry about what will happen when they do.
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Worry is kept at bay by staying busy.
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Self-developers achieve more by working closely with others.
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Seizing opportunities means riding on the energies of the day.
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By tuning in to others, we can tap in to collective group energy.
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Single-minded immersion is a way of concentrating all your thoughts on an immediate goal.
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When you commit yourself to a course of action, you shut down the escape doors and draw into yourself all kinds of unexpected resources to help you.
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Patience teaches us to work with the pace of things rather than force things to our pace.
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Great men and women of genius are noteworthy because of their willingness to practise and practise until they get things right.
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Perseverance is often an act of faith when the odds seem stacked against you.
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We progress towards our goals not in straight lines but by a continual process of adjustments.
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A time always arrives on the journey to our goals when we break through.
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Serendipity is stumbling on unexpected discoveries as we move towards our goals.
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Maximising our potential means maximising the power of our brains.
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We can increase brainpower by using both conscious and subconscious parts of our brains and both left and right sides of our brains.
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The brain can help you reach your goals by highlighting information that is useful to you and filtering out the rest.
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The key technique for making your brain work for you is advanced forms of positive thinking.
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Positivity means making choices that favour positive rather than negative interpretations on life.
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All lasting change starts on the inside and works its way out.
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We are who we think we are.
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When we present strong positive images of our goals to our brains, we no longer feel comfortable doing the negatives.
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We can practise positive thinking by looking forward expectantly and looking back constructively.
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We can change the way we feel by replacing habitual negative expressions with positive ones.
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Enthusiasm is the common thread that links all positive people.
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Positive thinking can relieve pain and prevent illness.
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In life you get what you believe you'll get.
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Excellence is always attainable; perfection never.
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Love for one's work is the simplest recipe for mastering one's goals.
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Tithing is the act of giving in order to invest in others.
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We all have it in us to perform like artists.
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The ultimate awareness is when your work is no longer apart from you but a part of you.
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Celebration is a deep-rooted human need to mark our goals and achievements.
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When we reach a level of mastery of our work, we get a glimpse of the mystery of things.
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