Recognizing Potential

I’ve been thinking a lot about potential lately and how much it can either point us in the right direction or make us feel like there are 100 bricks in a backpack and that we can never let go.  So how can we really take hold of our potential and actually achieve a sliver of it?

I sincerely believe this is important because once we recognize our potential and begin to realize that potential, a funny thing happens… we begin to see the potential in others.  What others can and ought to do.  Once we have realized our potential and found out the “trick” to doing so, we unconsciously help those around us to do the same.  Sometimes all you need is a helping (invisible) hand from those around us to help “lift us up to where we belong.”  I think this is best done by you and I recognizing potential in others and treating them as if they have already reached that potential.  This, in effect, pulls them up to their potential.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Focus on your potential, not your (or those around you) limitations.The hard part is recognizing that your potential is even greater than where you are currently at and always will be.  But at the same time, being happy with where you’re at so that you can push for greater heights.

How have you done this?