Ambitious people spend a substantial amount of time thinking about ways and strategies to help them achieve greater levels of success in life. Yet many find that ultimately, despite their best efforts, they can’t seem to find a true sense of fulfillment and satisfaction.
The secret to be hugely successful and achieve greatness is pretty simple: you have to reach your highest potential. However, working on our highest potential is easier said than done and our highest potential – the real extent of what we can achieve – is a moving target and not a destination.
Gandhi, Einstein and Martin Luther King – just to name a few – all achieved incredible greatness in their respective domains because they observed and exhibited their highest potential on their way to success. And even though it may seem difficult at times to reach our highest potential, it is hugely important to remember that this potential for greatness lies within all of us.
Here are our TOP 10 tips to reach your highest potential.
#1 Set Your Own Bar High
When you want more out of life and want to reach your highest potential, then you have to set your own bar as high as possible and understand with absolute certainty that nobody can expect more than you plan to deliver. This is a powerful step as it shifts your perspective and level of confidence in every decision you are going to make. You can’t push yourself outside your comfort zone and shift your paradigm until you allow yourself to push the envelop of what you yourself imagined possible. Be determined and focused in your approach and unapologetic about your intention to excel.
#2 Ignite Your Confidence
In order to reach your highest potential you have to develop a level of confidence that believes that you are a superstar. Act like you just scored the winning point in a football game or as if you just found out you won a million dollars. Jump up and down in excitement and scream ‘I rock’ after every accomplishment. While most people won’t do this just like most people will never win a million dollars, superstars do things differently. You are an amazing, one-of-a-kind gift to this world, special and unique as only you can be. You deserve everything that life has to offer, you deserve to be prosperous, healthy, happy and loved. You owe it to yourself to believe in yourself, ignite your confidence and achieve your highest potential.
#3 Own Your Mistakes
It’s a fact of life that you will make a mistake or two on your way to success. Own your mistakes and don’t let them stop you. We live and we learn, but the most important key to success is that we never stop moving forward. Understand that there will be times when you are on top of the world and there are times when you fall. Accept both possibilities and realize that when you fall, all there is left to do is to get right back up. Don’t ever give up on your ambitions and dreams. Sure, it won’t always be easy, but it will always be worth it.
#4 Reflect
Commit to 20 to 30 minutes of quiet reflection every single day. You don’t necessarily have to sit still, close your eyes and meditate, but you do have to get away from all the distractions in your life. Whether that’s your phone, your TV, the radio, your family and friends or your co-workers, they are only clouding your thoughts and influence your decision. Ride a bike, take a walk, turn off your radio on your way to work, lie in the grass, sit on your back porch, whatever works best for you. And then open your mind and just analyze, think, ponder, consider, contemplate, imagine, dream and visualize. You will come across great epiphanies and realizations that will give you awareness and insight into your highest potential.
#5 Be an Optimist
Keep in mind, every negative thought that replays in your mind over and over again is an anchor that is holding you back from reaching your highest potential. Free yourself from negativity and always find the positive in every situation you encounter. Staying optimistic is the key to open the doors to your highest potential, so don’t forget that in every setback lies an incredible opportunity.
#6 Use Visualization
Our outer world is simply a reflection of our inner world and we are where we are in life right now, because for the most part, that’s exactly where we want to be. You may not be consciously aware of it, but it’s the truth. So visualize your perfect future with you living up to your highest potential because the practice of visualization will help to rewire your subconscious mind. Use the power of imagination to visualize how you will feel and act when you live up to your highest potential and over time, your subconscious mind will do everything in its power to make that visualization a reality.
#7 Rise Above the Less Motivated
Don’t let those who are less motivated and those who choose to be unsuccessful bring you down. Rise above those kind of people and rise above everyone else. Unleash your inner superstar and show the world what you are capable of and what you have to offer. Become a leader in your industry and own your place. We all have a purpose in life and that purpose is worth nothing and useless unless we take advantage of it. Take advantage of your special talent and gift and use it to create your own path to success.
#8 Start Being Proactive
Most people confuse busy work with being productive. Sure, listening to your voicemails and answering emails is important, but those are not activities that will directly impact your goals. In order to reach your highest potential and be successful, it is extremely important that you learn how to prioritize. Identify your most important tasks, the things that will move you forward towards your goals and tackle them first thing when your energy levels are high. It will also give you an immense sense of accomplishment that will set the tone for the rest of your day.
#9 Be a Life Long Learner
You don’t have to be in school to learn something new. But it is detrimental to achieving your highest potential that you commit to learning something new every single day. Become a sponge, have an open mind and grow every single day. Keep in mind, all the information you need in order to be successful in life already exists. All you need to do is to expose yourself to it. Follow your passions, improve your skills and develop your talents, using any resource possible and with that keep your brain healthy, feel more satisfied with life, be more charismatic and interesting and ultimately reach your highest potential.
#10 Give Yourself Permission
You are entitled to live the best life. Give yourself permission to succeed, to shine, to be different, to be fabulous, to be an expert, to be a leader, to be a SUPERSTAR. Believe in yourself with unwavering self-confidence and self-trust and believe that you are the chosen one. Because you are!
We all want success and we all want to be proud of what we achieve. What we seem to forget in the midst of our daily grind and routine is that we all are born with unlimited amounts of potential that will get us there, it just sometimes gets buried underneath all that stress and busyness. Keep in mind, it is possible to live your best life ever. You just have to apply a series of simple mental adjustments in your day-to-day life to bring out your highest potential.
ACHIEVE GREAT SUCCESS AND FIND TRUE FULFILLMENT
Joschi & Monika
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