Skip to main content

How to Unlock Your Potential

To unlock your potential you definitely need a key. Now, this all important key is formed by mixing various ingredients to come up with a final product capable of unlocking any strong door harboring or hampering potential. I know you’re wondering and eager to know what this key is. Apparently, everyone holds the key but only a few get to use it. The reason why so many people lead below par lives is not because they don’t have the tools required for purposeful and fulfilling lives, but because they never realize the key to unlock their potential is already in their possession.
I feel privileged to reveal to you the whereabouts of this key and I hope you’ll pick it up right away and release your potential to freedom.  
Ladies and gentlemen, the famed, all important key is, ‘your everyday choices’.
Yes, you heard right, your choices.
You may be wondering, “but I make choices everyday and my potential still lies undiscovered or underutilized?” I agree with you, at least majority of the human population make choices everyday, otherwise every corner of the universe would be littered with zombies. So then where is the disconnect? Life is a product of the choices we make and so, as far as unlocking your full potential is concerned chances are you’ve been making wrong choices hence the snag.
So what kind of choices am I talking about?
To start witnessing blooming of your potential, you need to start making progressive & goal oriented choices.
What does progressive & goal oriented choices mean? 
Future is always a product of present, right? In other words, your present actions mold your future. A goal is the end product of dedicated activities carried out with the aim of achieving it. So it is right to say, the ‘dedicated activities’ happen in the present while the end product is found in future. Therefore, 'progressive & goal oriented choices' means, making strategic choices that will earn you the future you want.
What constitutes progressive & goal oriented choices? 
Remember I started by saying the key to your potential is formed by mixing together a number of ingredients. Now, let’s find out what these ingredients are;
Ingredients for progressive & goal oriented choices (P&GOC)                                       
1. Knowledge – of your potential and steps required to link it with success.
Knowledge of your potential – a quick way of spotting your potential is by looking at your abilities. A pointer to your abilities is the activities you enjoy doing; that particular thing that makes you stand out from the crowd. 
If you’re not there yet, then ask yourself this question. If all financial obligations were lifted off your shoulders, which activity /work would you love to engage in and look forward to every morning? Do you have the answer? Then that’s the arrow pointing towards your abilities and your potential.
Now that you have identified your potential you need to have knowledge of the steps required to link it with success. You can start by creating a mental picture of what you want to achieve, then break down the process into small steps. And lastly incorporate these small steps into your daily routine.
2. Goal/purpose – the vast deposit of potential lying in you was definitely placed there to help you achieve a divine objective. This divine objective is what we call ‘goal/ purpose’. Presence of goals is what gives daily hustle meaning and brings lasting fulfillment when achieved.
Ask yourself, ‘what purpose is your potential meant to serve?’ The answer to that question is your goal in life. Therefore, align your daily schedule with your goal.
3. Passion – to realize your goal you need to have a compelling desire to achieve it. This means carrying out your day-to-day tasks with energy and self-drive. [SECRET: Passion opens doors of opportunities.]
4. Positive attitude – approach your goals hence your day-to-day activities/ work with confidence and optimism that you’re going to accomplish them. No matter what you may encounter on the way, have a winning mentality.
5. Resilience – I would love to guarantee you a smooth sail in your endeavor but unfortunately I can’t promise. Life is full of ups and downs but this should not get you scared. One thing I can promise is ‘hope’ – no matter how bad your circumstances may be, there is hope for positive outcome. So as you embark on your mission make sure your skin is thick enough to withstand bad weather.
Because I want to see you succeed, I’ll put everything in black and white. In the journey of life, you’ll experience storms but your ability to withstand the side to side tossing will determine your chances of reaching the shore – (your goal). Maybe you’re wondering whether you’re cut out for that. And the answer is a resounding YES. All you need to do is enlist hope and faith; hope for things to work out and faith in validity of your purpose/ calling/ goals. With hope and faith you can withstand any challenge and problem life throws at you.
There you’ve it. Those are the components of what I call progressive & goal oriented choices. And the amazing thing is all that is hidden within you.
Now that the key is in your hands and you know how to use it, confidently slide it into the lock and let your potential bloom into its fullness.
Conclusion
Before I let you go, you need to know that your choices will unlock your potential but it doesn’t stop there. Once you’ve access to the haven, you need to link that massive potential with success. You may have all the information, formulas and ingredients for success but without action nothing will change. So as you make the choices in your mind choose to act too. Because the linking factor between potential and success is action, action and more action.
And the good news is the five ingredients above will motivate power packed actions which will eventually deliver you to success.
All the Best!

Links
If the article was interesting or helpful to you, remember to pin it, share, tweet or email your friends. I would also love to hear your feedback so feel free to drop me a comment below. In the meantime keep unlocking your potential and discovering higher heights.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Congruity: The Celebrated Robber

Congruity is a smooth and friendly robber who enters your house as an entrepreneur selling a service (a tutorial on how to be cool and fit in the clique). As an unsuspecting host you gladly welcome the guest and sit through the tutorial patiently. You pay for the service by giving up your personal convictions and off he (congruity) goes to hunt for the next unsuspecting culprit. He robs your house (willpower) clean and leaves you with a herd-mentality that sticks with you as long as you want to remain cool. The good thing (am not sure whether it’s really good) with our society (us) is that we’re really smart. We pride in our ability to remain on top of things. We aren’t intimidated by problems, (though we aren’t proactive in solving them either). So whenever we’re faced with a stubborn problem that’s likely to give us headaches, we tag it with a justification and quickly sweep it under the carpet (that’s smart, right?). For instance, in the case mentioned above, when our k...
Post a Comment
Read more

Is The Health Of A Nation A Reflection Of The Health Of Its Families?

Family is the basic unit of society. Therefore, it goes without saying that society is a composition of families. Hence, a morally ill society is a reflection of morally ill families. When we talk of social evils like corruption, injustice, misuse of power etc. more often we shift our focus to leaders forgetting that leadership is just a title; these people are children born and bred in our families. For instance, whenever a leader is exposed on issues of integrity or rather lack of it, we descend upon them with hate and criticism; we demonize them and even ostracize them. What hypocrisy! We adopt holier than thou attitudes and forget that we too are hanging on the same integrity scale; the only difference being, we’ve not been placed under an auditor’s lens (Almost every human being is or will be a leader at some point in their life. Whether you’re heading a nation, a religious body, a learning institution, a home etc. as long as someone is looking up to you for guidance, pro...
Post a Comment
Read more

Remember the Foundation

We’re living in dynamic times and things are changing quite fast. If those who lived in yesteryears came back, they would think they’ve discovered life on another planet because of the way things have revolutionized. It would take them a lifetime to understand what is going on.  Life is so fast paced nowadays, before you comprehend the fundamental principle of a trend, a phase is gone and another is midway. But how can we sustain sound judgment when life is moving at jet speed engaging us in full time comprehension occupation? Women on the Rise For instance, we hear of women empowerment all over. Have you ever been curious to find out the facts behind empowerment of Eves? I hope you have; but a good number of people especially women (no offense), jump into the wagon without establishing the objectives of this noble cause. And because they don’t build the cause on its foundation they go to extremes resulting in massive outcry from the male population. Misinformation ab...
Post a Comment
Read more