Why is Potential Such an Inspiring Idea?

Welcome to my newsletter “The Limitless Leader.”? I am grateful for your offer of time to read my thoughts.? I have immensely enjoyed my lifetime of leadership and growth.? I hope that I can inspire your limitless leadership in some way.?

My newsletter offers “insights to develop the leadership potential of yourself and your team.”? I have spent almost my entire life developing my potential and the potential of others.? One of my core beliefs is that potential can only develop with intention and purpose.? My beliefs about potential originate in my growth mindset.?

So let’s begin with what I mean by leadership potential.? Potential describes something or someone with the power to become something in the future.? Leadership potential means the power or ability to become a better leader.? Anyone can have leadership potential and improve their leadership.? We all have potential every day of our lives.? It is a question of whether we take the opportunity to develop it.?

John Maxwell says no one ever reaches their full potential.? We cannot because potential is limitless.? The greatest potential question is “How far can I go?”? As we develop our potential we become better versions of ourselves through intention, hard work, and effort.? We can always do better.? We can grow more and improve.? As we grow and develop our potential we remove lids to our leadership and influence.? That is the meaning of the limitless leader. See John here.

John Maxwell on the Power of Potential

I think of leadership potential like a seed.? Your potential is the seed of your future self.? But it does not decide your future self.? Some seeds have the potential to be flowers, some fruit trees, some vines, and some vegetables.? The seed has everything inside needed to grow and produce.? But that is only its potential.? How it is planted, sowed, watered, maintained, and harvested all have a direct effect on the result.? We can encourage the seed.? The potential needs to grow for the best results.? With the right steps, the seed will produce plenty of bright flowers or sweet fruit.? It will also produce the seeds required to continue the process over again.?

Every single seed has different potentials and pathways.? Like a seed, our leadership potential is personal, and the development is unique to each of us.?

One of my own stories of potential might be “How I Learned To Work Smarter Instead of Harder.”? Like many of us to move forward in the past I usually needed to work harder and find ways to get more done.? Unfortunately, few people give you feedback that you actually can’t do more.? I believed that I had more potential in me, much more.? I came to understand that not only was I limited by this thinking but so were the people around me because of it.??

That is when I got an executive coach and began changing my mindset.? Working smarter meant improving my leadership skills and investing in better relationships. With my coach, I focused on letting go to delegate, spending more time communicating my vision, and connecting with people more deeply.? My leadership growth became my greater potential.? I dedicated 20% of my improvement work to leadership and saw 80% of our results come from that.?

Your opportunity is to develop your potential and especially the potential of others.? A limitless leader never neglects potential in themselves or others.? That is because a limitless leader is always working to raise the lid on leadership.? It is the most important thing a leader can do.? The natural lid on our potential will only be removed by improving our leadership.?

Growth is the best way I have known to develop leadership potential.? Leaders are made not born.? Potential is developed not unwrapped.? The fixed mindset views our potential as already set and there is little we can do to effect it.? The growth mindset believes our potential is developed with effort and only begins as a seed.?

The potential is inspiring to me because it is limitless and transformative. Each of us has unique valuable potential.

I hope my newsletter is useful for expanding your limitless potential and leadership.?

Please share any comments or feedback you have now and in the future.? Your input greatly assists me in continually developing my potential.?

Thanks, Kevin

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