Maximize Your Potential

What is Potential?
The definition of potential is capable of being or becoming. Sounds pretty straight forward right. Then why do so many people not use/hit their potential. According to the definition everyone is capable of using their maximum potential. The author Anthony Robbins-Awaken the Giant within knows. He broke it down into three categories as to why people don't hit their maximum potential.

"The first thing is people don't have good enough standards for themselves. If you want to reach your maximum potential you need to Raise your Standards. Write a list of all of the things you will no longer accept in your life. Then write a list of all the things you aspire to become. The greatest people in history had very high standards of themselves. Look at Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. etc."

"The second thing that stops people from hitting their goals is Limiting Beliefs. You can have the best standards in the world but if you don't believe you can hit them then you have already sabotaged yourself. You wont even try; you'll be lacking that sense of certainty that allows you to tap the deepest capacity that's within you even as you read this. Our beliefs are like unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and cannot do. They shape every action, every though, and every feeling that we experience. As a result, changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives. How much do you think Gandhi would have accomplished had he not believed with every fibre of his being in the power of nonviolent opposition."

"The third thing is people have the wrong strategy. In order to keep your commitment, you need the best strategies for achieving results. The best strategy in almost any case is to find a role-model, or someone who is already getting the results you want and then tap into their knowledge. Learn what they are doing, what their core beliefs are and how they think. Not only will this make you more effective it will also save you a huge amount of time because you wont have to reinvent the wheel."

So if your saying to yourself right now, I have more potential or I'm not living up to my maximum potential than implement these three easy steps and watch as you grow and develop into an amazing individual.