Discovering Your True Potential

What are you really capable of achieving? Take a moment to think about it. Let your imagination break free from the boundaries of your daily routines and habits and imagine what you could really do if you harnessed all of your resources. What do you think you could accomplish if you dedicated all of your power and energy towards one single goal? What kind of extraordinary achievements could you produce if you could channel all of your latent potential? Have you any idea what might be possible for you when you step beyond your familiar and aptly-named comfort zone and explore your uncharted potential for greatness?

It’s an intriguing subject to consider because there are so many accounts of supposedly ordinary people achieving extraordinary results in every possible field of human endeavour. What was their secret? What enabled them to step beyond their limitations and achieve remarkable results? And why do we settle for so little when we could achieve so much more – both for ourselves and for the people around us?

The boundaries that represent our limitations are mostly determined by our beliefs. That’s one way of describing the fact that our minds construct the limits to what we think is possible. And that applies to all areas of our lives. Ask any endurance athlete about the greatest challenges they face during a long race and they’ll all agree that it’s the mental component that determines whether they keep going – or whether they quit. The mind sets the limits.

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done.

Life’s too short to think small.

—??? Tim Ferriss

So, it’s easy to appreciate that it’s our beliefs that create the boundaries for everything that we seek to achieve.

The famous tale of the baby elephant being tethered with a rope to a spike in the ground reminds us that these limitations can easily survive into adulthood. The adult elephant, despite its enormous strength, learns from an early age that it is simply cannot move away when it is tethered to the ground. Its belief is far stronger than the rope and the metal stake.?

When we visualise the outcomes that we seek to achieve, our goals become a reflection of what we believe to be possible.

But what if we’re short-changing our goals and aiming too low? What if we’ve accepted levels of health, happiness, wellbeing, success and fitness that don’t even come close to what we’re really capable of achieving? Why have we bizarrely decided to settle for so much less than we’re capable of accomplishing? Are we secretly avoiding the risk of failure or disappointment? Are we hiding from the bitter pain of rejection? Are we expressing a deeply-held belief that we don’t really deserve to be happy, to be loved, to be healthy, to be successful? The limitations that determine so many of the outcomes in our lives are nothing more than a construct of our minds. It’s time to consider moving the barriers and expanding our minds to encompass greater, wider and more powerful possibilities.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be

—??? Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let’s be frank – for many, this might not be a comfortable exercise. Our personal limitations are specifically set to make sure we don’t stray into areas that we’re likely to find too challenging. Even when people claim that they’re looking for a challenge, they’re usually referring to an experience that keeps them well within their personal comfort zones.

The motivation for stepping beyond our mental and emotional barriers is to discover something that we haven’t encountered before. It is in many ways a journey into the unknown. That’s why it can feel scary. We certainly don’t feel at ease when we confront the unfamiliar, the unknown or the limits of what we thought was possible. Yet it is only on the other side of those limitations that we encounter our true potential.

The key to overcoming these limiting beliefs is to develop a new and more liberating set of views about yourself, creating a powerful vision in which you learn to see yourself excelling in every endeavour you undertake. It’s a question of practice and repetition but, gradually, your beliefs will start to reflect your new vision of yourself. This subtle shift in your internal architecture will help you to feel more comfortable with your changing perception about yourself.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

—??? Fernando Flores

The great challenge is to allow your imagination to flow beyond the barriers of your limitations. Your beliefs sustain your interpretation of what is real. Your beliefs become the foundation for everything you experience. Your true potential is waiting to be discovered, explored and fulfilled. Are you prepared to extend the range of your imagination? Are you ready to visualise a brighter, happier and more successful future for yourself? Take a moment to unleash your imagination. Engage this moment to challenge the boundaries of your domain. Learn to appreciate the excitement of becoming far more than you are today. Expand the limits of what you used to think was possible and stand by to be thoroughly amazed at the changes you can initiate in your life.

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximise your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

—Jim Rohn

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Greg Parry created the Cognitive Empowerment Programs specifically to help people master their stress, overcome their limitations and explore the power of their true potential.

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