Fulfilling Your True Potential

Fulfilling Your True Potential. Hello everyone, I hope you are well. In today’s post, I will be sharing an insight into fulling your true potential. Living up to your true potential provides a distinct sense of fulfilment, and according to Aristotle in his book The Nicomachean Ethics, we all have the potential for greatness. Realising that potential, he believes, is the key to living a truly happy and fulfilling life, even in your older years. Nevertheless, fulfilling your true potential and being a high performer requires developing specific skills and mental traits. So without further ado, let’s look at those traits and skills, shall we?!

Fulfilling Your True Potential

Self Awareness

If you want to know what your genuine potential hides and how to get there, you must feel at ease with who and what you are.

Don’t pretend to be someone you’re not; don’t try to change yourself solely because others tell you to.

Instead, understand who you are and what you want to be… And if you don’t know, you should find out by doing things and analysing yourself and how you feel doing them… This is the essence of self-awareness!

Read, write, think, and speak. That is self-awareness: simply being aware of your thoughts and feelings.

When you are self-aware, you automatically learn more about yourself.

It all starts with awareness.

No awareness – No knowledge!

Perseverance

Perseverance is inferred from failing and rising again. You cannot become resilient if you do not commit mistakes.

Sometimes you work, and you get nothing in return. For years, you work but do not see any outcomes.

You get no acknowledgement, no money, and no rewards. But eventually, you start seeing the results you have long been waiting for.

You get better at your job and gain more confidence. You even start earning more.

If this sounds familiar, consider this – if you didn’t persevere, you would not get any of those things.

Writing

We’ve all needed to vent and express ourselves to get our point across.

Writing, on the other hand, can assist you in actually achieving this. When you write things down, you become more conscious of your choice of words.

This implies that your writing will be more insightful, concise, and elegant than your speech.

Improved writing leads to improved thinking. Better thinking leads to improved communication.

Better communication translates to improved career outcomes.

So write, write, write! Whether that means writing down your goals and plans or doing creative writing.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is more about being a mindful person than it is about meditation, yoga, or Buddhism.

A mindful person is in command of their emotions and thoughts. They are as solid as a rock.

Someone on whom others can rely. However, achieving that inner peace takes a lot of practice.

You might think that you will never be able to master this skillfully. You can, however, improve your control over your thoughts by practising.

The essence of the mindfulness practice lies in recognising recurring patterns and making conscious decisions at the moment of their occurrence, contrary to that automatic reaction.

Productivity

It is essential to understand that the more present you are, the more desire you have to improve your life.

And you can improve your life by working on the things you like. Thinking about achieving your goals will not do anything tangible for you.

Evolve into a person who is productive every day.

Don’t continue to waste it by watching TV, hanging out with the wrong people, or engaging in any other mindless, mundane activities.

Make the most of your time.

Leadership

Leadership is all about motivating people and helping them reach their full potential.

This can be done by teaching others to have autonomy and focusing on themselves.

When you fix your problems and become a strong person you can rely on, you help others more.

When you can do this, you inspire others to do the same.

Only selfish and narcissistic people want to make people dependent on them…

Leaders believe otherwise!

Final Thoughts

If you’ve started doing something, do it to the best of your ability or don’t do it at all.

That is the quickest way to realise your full potential, and it’s also the most difficult.

That, however, should come as no surprise to you. If you fail the first time, learn from your mistakes and remember Henry Ford’s words:

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

I hope you enjoyed that.

Talk soon