“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” Helen Keller “Have the daring to accept yourself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the game of making the most of your best.” Henry Emerson Fosdick “One of the most common problems in our society is unsuccessful people with great potential.” Hubie Brown

 

Tapping Your Potential 

Are you filled with unused potential?  I know I am.  The other day I was writing a letter to a friend and I wrote the words “I know I’ve only scratched the surface of my incredible potential.”  As soon as I wrote those words I was struck by the truth in them.  I’ve only scratched the surface!  What an incredibly exciting concept.  If this wonderful beautiful life is only the surface, what will I find beneath that surface when I use my potential and dig deeper?

Are you only scratching the surface of your potential?  Do you want to dig deeper into your potential this year?  This is exciting stuff!  Where do you want to be by the end of the year?  More importantly, who do you want to be?  When you look in the mirror 12 months from now do you hope to see the same person thinking the same things, living the same life?  Or, do you hope to be a new improved version of the already wonderful you? 

Wherever you are with your life right now, you have far greater potential.  So, what are you going to do to reach your greater potential this year?  It sounds like a big job but really it consists of only a few small changes. 

Our lives are a series of small steps taken daily.  Small steps that we take over and over become our habits.  When we change a habit we change our lives.  A small change can have a large impact if it is followed over and over again until it becomes a habit.  What are your daily habits?  Which habits are working for you and which are working against you?   

Our world will change when we determine to work on us.  To work on developing better habits.  Small things like getting regular exercise.  Things like taking 15 minutes every morning to read or listen to something uplifting at the start of every day.  Great habits such as setting daily, weekly and monthly goals.  Habits like celebrating successes each night before we sleep. 

What are some of the habits that you would like to work on to tap into your unused potential?  What habits do you have that are benefiting you?  What habits could you develop that would take your life to the next level?  The famous philosopher, Jim Rohn wrote, “What you become is far more important than what you get.  What you get will be influenced by what you become.”  Look to someone who has the qualities you wish to grow in yourself.  What are their habits?  It’s the small things that make the difference. 

I find in my life that the quickest, most productive way to change my life is to change something about me.  Our lives are formed by the daily habits we have.  Change one little habit and it could begin to send you in a whole new direction. 

Right now, stop and think about the beneficial habits you want to form in your life.  Today is a great day to start!  It’s so exciting to think about all that you and I will accomplish when we begin doing more than just scratch the surface of our incredible potential!        

 To Your Continued Success,

Janice MadariagaJ