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Untapped Potential - Live it!

While we wait for life, life passes. - Seneca

Untapped potential, the stuff we are all sitting on and not fully engaging. Yes, all of us. 

Everyone has greater potential they are yet to or may never open up. Even those achieving great things could do greater things with their lives, nobody is living the perfect life...as perfection doesn’t exist.

We all have moments, days, weeks where we completely watch life pass us by and never really push to achieve the greatness that lives inside us. Precious moments often wasted un-achieving and limiting ourselves, letting life lead us rather than leading it ourselves. 

I’m just as guilty, we all are. It isn’t that you will spend every waking hour stretching yourself or driving towards dream after dream. It isn’t that your life will be so epic there will not be any room left for achievement. It isn’t that you’ll do more than any other human in the history of time. 

It is however that we need to be aware of this untapped potential. Those hours we spend day after day and week after week, not growing as parents, as spouses, as children, as friends, as community members, as humans. We wait on life to come rather than make life happen and it inevitably passes us by. 

The potential we all have inside us is infinite. You may be held back by this or that, but there is likely a story behind someone who has been in the same position as you (or worse) and achieved far more than you or I deemed possible. 

I’ve made a pact to myself to push the boundaries of my potential. Am I there? Not even close! Nor may I ever be. But being aware of this and driving towards those boundaries allows me to really grow myself as a human. A willingness to take risks by being vulnerable and targeting my weaknesses allows me to constantly be striving forward. I often pull back into my own comfort zone, fearful of failure or public ridicule, and have to remind myself of my mission. I’m not there yet, often don’t heed my lessons, but I’m getting better. 

With this growth mindset and want to continuously succeed, you will step out of comfort zones and really live life fuller than you ever had. You might already think and believe your life is full. It’s not. None of our lives are full, there is always room for more and always avenues to continue pushing boundaries of achievement.

I write this blog not only for you but also for me. I need this constant, consistent reminder in all facets of life to live on that track towards reaching newer heights, greater potential, amazing accomplishments. I try to remind myself every day through reflection. What have I accomplished today that wasn’t part of the plan or within the routines? What did I learn today that I didn’t know this morning? What am I going to accomplish tomorrow that I could easily get by in life without doing? How did I make an impact today on the world and how will I make an impact tomorrow?

We all need constant reminders to continue our growth in all aspects of life. This helps me to maintain my harmony and balance, as I strive for greater achievements throughout my day. 

What is your untapped potential? Pick something in life you might be at awe with, write a bucket list, a list of things to do before you die, or a set of goals for the coming year. Then make it happen. 

Sounds simple but it’s not and you’ll need to keep reminders all around. To push you towards the work you want to do not the work you end up doing. Towards the life you can live and not the one you do live.

Don’t wait for life, make it happen.


DadBud

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