Realizing Potential
Your potential is your energy; and not just your energy for work but your energy for life, for becoming, for realizing your dreams. Your potential is your untapped ability to play in a bigger arena than you ever thought possible.
Most people are playing in a smaller game than what they are capable of. We choose to play below our potential for a host of reasons, most of them unconscious.
Recently someone told me they had been offered a new job that was best described as a, “velvet rut.” I’m sure you get the picture; this is one of those jobs where you have the skill set but won’t really have to use it, you can just sleepwalk through your days and collect your cheque.
My question was, “will you be asleep or smouldering?” Your intelligence, creativity and initiative – your energy – have to go somewhere; they may show-up as frustration, anger or depression.
In order to play in a bigger game we need to have faith in ourselves at the level of self-talk and inner belief systems. Positive thinking and affirmations have value but if they are laid-on over an inner conversation that says, “That’s not me, I can’t do that,” then no lasting change can happen.
To realize your potential you have to honestly establish current reality. You need to know what feels familiar, what feels safe and what you believe you are capable of right now. You need a kind of radical self-honesty about the content of your inner conversations before you can begin to examine them to see if they are actually true.
Surprisingly these self-limiting images within us begin to lose their power as soon as we bring our attention to them. With genuine self confidence we can enter into the process of discovering where our potential might lead us.
With real self- knowledge you can assess your talents and interests and explore where your dreams want to take you. You will be in a position to create meaningful goals and effective strategies for fulfilling them.
Realizing Potential is a one-on-one engagement specifically designed to get you from where you are, to where you want to be. I bring 25 years leadership and strategic risk taking experience, a grounded spiritual practice and a great respect for each person’s unique awakening potential.
