How To Discover Your Hidden Potentials

Discover who you are in life, so you can recover to excel and break limits”.

You are much more capable and remarkable than you give yourself credit for!!. You may not see it now but there is amazing potentials within you.

There is amazing potential within all of us but it just need to be discovered. It is hidden from us because every precious thing in this life doesn’t come easily, note Gold as precious as it is, is very difficult to find likewise diamond. What hides our potentials could be our past hurts, disappointments, failures low self-esteem, words like “you will never make it in life” from friends, close relative and colleagues and put downs that have tainted your self-image and believe about who you are. Each time someone told you that you were not good enough, smart enough, or talented enough, you automatically start becoming doubtful about who you are and what you could become. As yourself esteem lowered, you began to hide behind a mask of people pleasing, overachieving, or careless living.

How long have you been hiding behind a mask of insecurity?

Don’t cover-up the natural qualities and incredible nature that you were created and endowed with. It’s time to embrace the person you an become and discover the potentials hidden behind your insecurities  and silent pains.

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Get Over Your Fear Of Failure

When we review our past experiences we might b prone to son guessing what we are capable of, we may contest that our potential is limited because of all the times we have failed and all the people who told us our ideas and suggestion were worthless.

What if the greatest inventors or creators in the world had listened to the nay Sayers or viewed their failure as end point? Don’t forget MICHAEL FARADAY’S  the great physicist successfully passed electric current through a bulb filament after 99 failed attempts but finally succeed at the 100 attempt. So never give up so soon when you fail. Note; those who persevere use failure as a learning experience”.

Because they realize it teaches them exactly what they need to know. Believe in your capabilities and success so you can deliver. See yourself as you desire to be and don’t b afraid of your potential. Your greatness is not an illusion or a grandiose belief, but is something that will come in due time.

Consider and seek to know why you failed then explore what you can do next time. “Use failure as a teacher to learn where you still need to do some work in your life”.

Moving From A Fix Mindset To A Growth Mindset

A Growth Mindset

The first aspect of discovering your hidden potential means moving from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset an reframing the negative to positives.

How you interpret setbacks, challenges and barriers is your choice. You can interpret setbacks as signs that you have a fixed talents or abilities that are lacking or you can interpret setbacks with a growth mindset, meaning seeing challenges as signs that you need to ramp up your skills, stretch yourself, and expand your abilities. It’s your choice, you choose to grow or not. You have the potential to control the outcome of anything in your life in a variety of different ways.

Don’t let your fixed mindset, or “preprogrammed” passions or skills drive what you think you are good at. These fixed mindset beliefs do not decide or determine your future, you do.

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Strengthening  Your Growth Mindset

Lets Recognize We All Have Ants Always Working In our Heads

We all have bullions thoughts running through our heads every single second of the day with many having negative implications/effect on us. We should be using tools like slack to strengthen knowledge beyond the classroom.

We all have Automatic Negative Thoughts(ANTs).

ANTs takeover the little voice in our heads by planting negative seeds. We allow those negative seeds to destroy our dreams and tear down our goals. It’s hard to remain positive when that little voice is constantly spouting off and saying things like, “I can’t do that, I’m not smart enough, “I have no business being in this field”, “I’m not making a different”, I’m not worthy of my peer groups and age mates”.

In order for you to move forward and find your hidden potential, you need to squish the ANT, inner dialog. This means recognizing them as they appear and pulling out a can ANT killer and annihilate them.

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How To Kill The ANTS

Kill the ANTs by talking back positive things to yourself we all are not strangers to talking to ourselves while doing other things.

When that ugly ANT or fixed mindset makes its way into your inner conversation, TALK BACK TO IT! I know it sounds silly, but positiveaffirmations work  telling yourself YOU CAN DO THIS works. Positive thoughts row out the negative ANTs. Try to catch the negative statements as they happen and immediately follow-up with a positive statement.

Negative statement such as when your fixed mindset says; “ I don’t think you can do this, you don’t have the skill”.

Your GROWTH MINDSET answers, “ I might not be able to do it now, but I am going to put in the time and learn’.

WHEN YOUR FIXED MINDSET says; “ if I don’t try, I won’t fail and people won’t think less of m”.

YOUR GROWTH MINDSET answer’s; “If I don’t try, I will fail. I will have no sense of accomplishment”.

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With time, the voice that becomes louder will be your choice and never you allowed your fixed mindset win at any point.

Always speak positively to yourself concerning anything you want to do, don’t give chance to the negative side of what you are about to do, only choose take up the growth mindset and see the positive aspect of it.

You Are Worthy Of Success An Happiness

Many people are held back because they don’t believe they are worthy of success. They can’t see themselves beyond the run of their mill life they are accustomed to. They look for opportunities from a limited perspective of what they already have and can’t see past this.

The earlier you wake-up to know that you have the power and capacity to achieve everything and anything in life just by looking beyond your present state in life. You can look beyond your current position, earning, influence, or whatever it may be. Your sense of self-worth will have a huge impact on what you are willing to do, so take off the blind fold blocking your brilliance and go for it.

Whatsoever you believe you deserve, you can achieve it.

It Just Take Some Work

There is no magic bullet or tools that will lead you to know about what you are capable of doing.

Even if you don’t see it yet, there is greatness within you, but it takes working on yourself first. Potential comes from character development and having within us what we want to give to the world. Whether it is leadership, creativity, generosity, compassion, courage, kindness or confidence, you can cultivate this trait.

The list of universal traits that all human beings posses is endless. The catch is, we must realize that to become more compassionate for instance, will take hard-work, study and practice if it does against our current conditioning. It requires work from the inside out to make lasting hanging. We see other people using these traits and assumed that they are not within us, but ah character trait you can think of is a natural human capacity.

You, me and every other person in the world can deepen and develop these attributes take self-growth and transformation seriously.

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