How To Maximize Your Potential

Potential is one of the most wonderful words in any language. It looks forward with optimism, filled with hope and engenders an expected end. It hints success, promises greatness and implies fulfillment. Potential is a word that underscores possibilities. To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow you must be highly intentional about learning daily, getting better than you were the day before and keep changing in a way that empowers you to become your potential.

What growth entails differ from one person to another, but the principles are the same for everybody. No one improves by accident. Personal growth doesn’t just happen on its own. If you want your life to improve, you must consciously and deliberately improve yourself. The best you can do for yourself in life is to make the most out of whatever you’ve been given. You do that by investing in yourself as a partner with God to become the best He has created you to be.

To grow you must know yourself; your strength and weakness your interest and passion, as well as the opportunities around you. John C Maxwell put this simple by saying “you have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are. So what’s the solution? Explore yourself as you explore growth.” You have to keep learning and growing and changing at all cost if you will ever become your.

Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday. You do that by focusing on what you can do today to improve and grow. Do this long enough, when you look back and compare the you of yesterday and weeks, months or years ago with the you today, you will be dazed at and greatly encouraged by the substantial progress you have made over time.

If you want to expand your capacity, the first place to start is always in your own mind. You can do this by asking more of yourself than others ask, expect more from yourself than others expect, believing more in yourself than others believe, doing more than others think you can and should do, giving more than others think you should give, and helping more than others think you should help.

Doing more than is expected of you does more than just to separate you from the packs; it distinguishes you from your colleagues by earning you a reputation for peak performance. It also trains you to develop a habit of excellence which compounds over time. Continued excellence expands your capabilities and potential.