Where Does Our Potential Live? – ElPropósito3 min de lectura

Five strategies and a final reflection to show you what you’re capable of

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For a long time, one question kept coming back to me: am I doing what I truly love? I always wondered whether I was chasing my dreams and everything I’d longed for since I was a boy. Today, as a coach, and having faced different challenges in my personal and professional life, I know what I’m capable of and I trust what I can become. That confidence came from discovering my potential. Read on to find out where yours lives.

Potential is the possibility that something may emerge in the future, the strength we have on hand to reach a goal. So it sits stored away, hidden or waiting to come out. We dream by nature, and over the years we gather countless dreams, all full of passion, that we know would fill us with wellbeing the moment they came true. Many of them are still there and follow us all our lives. We’d love to see them happen, and sometimes we see them spring to life in someone else, with their own twist, of course.

All those ideas and dreams waiting impatiently to come out live inside us. The spark that unlocks our potential is bringing a dream into the real world and feeling energy flow through a virtuous cycle of wellbeing as we keep building everything we’ve always wanted. So where does our potential live, and how do we unlock it? Here are five strategies I hope you find useful:

• In trusting ourselves: However unlikely or strange it may seem, we have what it takes to create the wellbeing we long for. Trust that, and we’ve won the first round of unlocking our potential.
• Outside the comfort zone: Even thinking about making an idea real is a challenge. It brings the stress of all kinds of thoughts, good and bad. Planning it, talking it over with someone or getting excited about seeing it happen instantly lifts us above where we stood when we first dreamed it up.
• Beyond limiting beliefs: Beliefs are obstacles, or great mountains, we’ve placed in our own way, and they keep our potential locked up. A question I like to ask is: what’s on the other side of those mountains? What would happen if, once you spotted the belief, you erased it with a single stroke?
• In making decisions: An idea without decisions stays an idea. Deciding in time may be the biggest factor in turning a dream into reality. The first big change that unlocks potential is daring to be the change.
• In owning our actions and our future: We’re the architects of our own change. From the comfort zone, we just watch the world go by. If we’re outside it, it’s because we chose to step out, and from there there’s no going back. We’ll have realized that we alone are responsible for creating our future.

I’ll leave one last strategy as a final reflection: knowing the compass that guides, or will guide, your unlocked potential, meaning your Life Purpose. We all carry a True North that tells us what brings us closer to our wellbeing and what pulls us away. Once the floodgates of potential open, every idea and dream we ever wanted to pursue comes pouring out. Since they can be endless, we need to prioritize, and for that we have to know our True North. I invite you to discover yours.

Warm regards and have a great week,

Rodrigo Baccaro

Author: Rodrigo Baccaro

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