Unlocking Your Potential

October 12, 2021

You know you could do great things… if you could only get some clarity on what you should pursue, what you should do first, and what talents you should develop.

In other words, you need help learning how to unlock your hidden potential so you can take the world by storm...

Know What You Want in Life

What would you do if money were no object?
What would you attempt if you were guaranteed to succeed?
What’s your personal elevator speech?
What are your core personal values?
What makes you deeply content/happy?
What would you do, even if you didn’t get paid for it?
Consider specific outcomes you want in these areas of your life:
- Personal - these can include physical/fitness, self-development, artistic and relationship outcomes
- Professional - this covers what outcomes you’d like to achieve in your career It might also include educational and/or financial outcomes
- Spiritual - these outcomes are ways in which you’d like to grow spiritually

Taking Action to Unlock Potential

Decide on a realistic deadline to complete your outcome
Set action tasks for yourself
Design a monthly action task list that will ensure you achieve your outcome by your deadline
Design weekly action task lists, just as you did for the month
Further, break down outcome-related tasks by creating a daily to-do list
Review your monthly, weekly and daily action task lists frequently

Recognize Your Strengths and Weaknesses

Part of unlocking your potential is to see what your natural gifts are...
- What have you always been good at?
- What do you do better than anyone else you know?
- What do other people think are your strengths
- What skills have you developed that could be added to the list?
It’s important to be aware of your weaknesses so you can determine how to deal with situations where the skill or ability is necessary, but you can’t do it:
- What skills or tasks do you struggle with?
- What tasks do you procrastinate doing?
- What do others see as your weak area?
- What negative work habits do you have?
- What personality traits do you have that you experience as weaknesses or negatives?

Focus On Your Strengths

It builds self-confidence instead of tearing it down
It takes less time and effort because you find things you do well easy and enjoyable
You focus on the positives in your life, and those positives will increase
It makes you happier
Invest in learning more about what you’re already good at
Spend time with others who have your desire to build upon their strengths
Step out of your comfort zone
Teach others your strengths

Improving Weaknesses