Unleash Your Potential With These guides

Unleash Your Potential With These 8 Steps

It’s important to think about, and work on, the things that will help you to unleash your potential. When you were born, you had huge potential. The sky was the limit and you could be anyone you wanted to be. As we grow up, we tie ourselves down with the chains of conformity until the question becomes, how do you break out and unleash that huge potential God endowed you with?

       Top Tips To Unleash Your Potential

From studying the great achievers, I have been able to develop the following tips that will help you to unleash your potential.

                        Tip 1. Have a Big Vision.

You can’t unleash your potential by thinking small! Ask a small child what they are doing, or what they want to be when they grow up and they’ll usually have a big vision.

As we get older, our experiences and people around us make us reduce the size of that vision until it is a tiny shadow of its former self. Instead of helping you to unleash your potential, your find yourselves constrained more and more.

Brainstorm question: if there were no limitations, what would your vision be?

The challenge for me then became, “OK, I have this big vision, where do I start?” I always have to remind myself about the need to focus. Not always successfully as I have more than a dozen writing projects on the go at present! However, there is a common theme which is about no frill, no bull guides to business and personal development.

        

             Tip 2. Develop Strong and Healthy Self-confidence.

The Brits often accuse the Americans of being over-confident. An American response I came across was “You have to blow your own trumpet, otherwise someone else will use it as a spitoon!” My wife loves to say “A peacock without a tail is just another turkey.”

However, the trick is to not flaunt it. It’s about trusting yourself and your judgement without being afraid to ask for help. You won’t unleash your potential to the full if you don’t believe in yourself.

I was lucky when I was in my mid twenties. An older friend took me to one side and asked me “What’s the difference between arrogance and confidence?” I thought for a moment and said “It’s a narrow dividing line.” 

He was enough of a friend to say without hesitation “It is, and at the moment you are often on the wrong side of that line.”

My lesson was to let my actions show how good I was, not my mouth!

Tip 3. They all Know Themselves and Have Developed a Healthy Unconditional Self-Acceptance.

Stand in front of a mirror and ask yourself what do you see? How much do you love what’s looking back at you? You may do things sometimes that you regret but don’t worry, you can always change your behaviour. 

I have clients who cannot stand in front of a mirror and look at themselves objectively. Some find it hard to even open their eyes!

If you can’t love yourself, how can you love others? And if you can’t love yourself. You will reduce the effectiveness of any attempts to unleash your potential.

Tip 4. Understand the Power of the Mind and Learn How to Harness it Through Focus.

The mind is more powerful than we can currently define. In fact, scientists don’t even know where it is! Whether you believe in individual differentiated minds or in a collective unconscious that we tap into, one thing is certain. The mind is a powerful tool. Energy flows where attention goes, as I wrote last week.

The Ancient Chinese have know this for millennial  modern science for a decade or two. If you want to make use of the power of the mind, you need to learn to focus. I find meditation is helpful but if that’s not your scene, there are other tools to help you to unleash your potential through developing the power of your mind.

Tip 5. They all go Through Adversity and Develop Persistence and Strength as a Result.

Persistence and strength are vital. What will know one person down and out, will merely cause another person to stumble, get back up and carry on. One of the things that will determine how well you unleash your potential is how you manage stress.

I've played international sport and one of the things that determines success at level is how well people manage the stress of competition. Some seemingly average players thrive on it while others, with better skills, crumble.

Tip 6. They All Focus on the Present.

They have let go of the past and have learned to forgive. One of the tough lessons to learn if you are going to unleash your potential is to let go of the past. Often this means forgiving people for what they have done to you.

People  say to me “Are you crazy? Why should I forgive them after they did ‘….’ to me?” The thing is, forgiveness is not for their benefit, it’s for yours. It’s about setting yourself free of any hold they have over you. They have probably forgotten about the incident, so why should you let it have a hold on you?

Similarly, I’ve had clients who were still mourning the loss of a loved one, long after the person died. If this applies to you, ask yourself: “Do you think that your father/mother/ brother/ sister/ husband/wife wants to be looking down at you and seeing you being so miserable?” My mother died when I was 17 and it took me a long time to learn that the end of a life is not the end of a relationship. My mother lived on in my heart and in the hearts of all those who knew and loved her.

Tip 7. They all Know that the Quality of Their Lives Depends on the Choices They Make.

They choose to be successful and happy. I wrote about your life being governed by the quality of the choices you make so I will not repeat myself. The only thing I’d add is that in my experience, depressed people believe they have no empowering, supportive choices available to them. And if presented with one, they quickly discount it.

Tip 8. They all Understand That Life is About Service and Givers’ Gain.

Earlier this week I wrote about my experience with give to gain and rather than repeat what I wrote, click on the link to see the how you can unleash your potential through giving and being of service.

These 8 tips for helping you to unleash your potential will each, during the coming year, feature in e-books, videos and podcasts to help you to examine them in more depth. If I’ve missed something you’d like to see me cover, please write to me.

Thanks for reading and please let me know what other tips you have found personally useful in helping you to unleash your potential.

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