The #1 Way To Unleash Your Full Potential
You know, truth be told, I didn’t know what I was going to talk about this week.
I kept going back and forth on different topics and I just had a mental block. And, you know, when that happens with me, I have a tendency to step away and try to do something else.
Usually an extra curriculum that I like to do, whether it’s going for a hike or walk or going out in the yard and doing some landscaping or going to my workshop, and working on a project. And usually that clears my head and the answer comes to me.
Well, I kept coming back to how do we unleash our full potential.
How do we unlock it?
How do we break that negative mindset loop that we get caught in sometimes?
So how do you unleash your full potential?
Let’s talk about it.
You know, I put out a lot of tools, tricks and hacks that you can use to develop your positive mindset and reach the goals that you want in life and break the negative mindset loop.
But what’s the number one way that you can unleash your potential and move forward?
But What I always come back to as the number one way to unleash your true potential is to…
Believe In Yourself
Because usually when we’re stressed and we have anxiety and we’re overwhelmed, it’s because we have self-doubt.
We have insecurities about what we want and the things that are happening to us.
And it’s easy for you to lose that belief in yourself. In your head, you say things like,
“why me or woe always me, or, this always happens to me, or, I’m not good enough, or I’m the kind of person that can’t do this, or I could never do that.”
And with these fears and insecurities, it’s easy to lose the belief in yourself.
To know that you’re strong enough and to know that you’re in control to basically do anything that you put your mind to.
But at the end of the day, you could have a tool, a trick, a hack, but you will start to see real progress the day that you start to believe in yourself and know that you can accomplish it.
Because when you start to believe in yourself, then you’ll accept your current situation and you’ll make the choice that you won’t accept the negative situation anymore, that then you’ll start to get clarity about what you want.
Now, if you’re stuck in that negative cycle, it’s hard to believe in yourself, isn’t it?
Sometimes we have fears, we have self-doubt, we have insecurities. But if you’ve finally said enough is enough, that’s when your mind is starting to make the choice to start to believing in yourself.
So what are some other ways that you can start to believe in yourself?
One is to think about your past successes. Usually, everybody has a time in their life, in the past, that they’ve had a success, even if it’s small. Maybe it’s a work promotion, maybe it’s an A, you got on the paper. Maybe it’s a sport that you were playing and you made a great play. Maybe your sports team won the conference or won the division or won a game, or you just made a great play.
Whatever it was, how did that success feel? That’s a time when you really believed in yourself, right?
Along with that belief is the trust in yourself to know that you are in control, to know that you’re strong enough.
Rumi said,
“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
You have the power within you.
But the challenge is when you’re stuck in that negative cycle and you have self-doubt, you have fear, you have anxiety, you have stress, you feel like the world is happening to you, and you’ve lost clarity in your life, it’s hard to have that belief in yourself.
But it’s inside us. You just need to remind yourself that you are in control, that you are strong enough to move forward.
Another way to enhance the belief in yourself is to talk to yourself.
Very often, most of the self-talk that we use is negative.
I like to say that if I heard someone talking to another person, like the way I talk to myself, sometimes I would be offended. So let’s turn that around and do positive self-talk.
- I am strong.
- I am in control.
- Today is going to be a great day.
- I do the actions and plans that are necessary for me to reach my goals.
Start to make it a point to talk to yourself in a positive way.
Remember, the person you talk to most during the day is yourself. …So be nice!
And remember, there is no other you in the whole universe. There’s over 7 billion people in the world, and not one of those 7 billion people is the same as you. You are the only you. You are special, and you have the power within you to do whatever you decide that you will accomplish.
Another way to enhance the belief in yourself is to say, the time is now.
Very often when we’re having fears and anxieties, we procrastinate. We’ll put it off. We’ll just say, “oh, I’ll start that project tomorrow. I’ll start that project next week or next month or next year. It’s too busy right now.”
When you believe in yourself, the time is now.
I am in control. I am strong enough. I do believe in myself. My time is now.
And you’ll see that once you believe in yourself and you start to turn that mindset loop around to a positive mindset loop, then it’s easier to do all the other things that you need to do to move forward….
- …Which is improving your focus.
- It means getting clarity about what you want.
- It’s about having a positive outlook.
- It’s about making the choice to move forward.
- It’s about being present in the moment.
- It’s about focusing on solutions instead of problems.
And then you’ll truly see that your potential will be unleashed and unlocked, but it starts with a belief in yourself.
I hope this informatiuon helped you out.
Be Positive, Be Motivated, Be Focused and Be Well,
Have a great day.
Mark
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