Potentials are qualities that exist and can be developed.
It is an inbuilt trait which is meant for making your being a meaningful kind. It is like salt; it is not just to add meaning-saltiness to your living, but also to stimulate your real self in actualizing your dreams and unleashing your talents in order to explore your world richly.
Potentials is inbuilt in existence, but often times, it may never be made known or revealed unless it is discovered and worked upon.
Just as the beats of a drum helps to display inbuilt dancing steps, so is potential.Your beauty, strength and ability, dreams and aspirations, brilliancy and efficiency are all made known through your potential.
To everyone on earth potential was given in expectation to be displayed at a given point in life, Let sight this illustration,
When two bottles are placed side by side and omen of the bottle is filled with a content. e.g Oil. The one with a content will be called 'a bottle of oil' while the other empty bottle will be only known as a bottle.
Your potential tells who you are, what you carry and what lives in you.
MODE OF DISCOVERING YOUR POTENTIALS
1.CONSULT YOURSELF.
What do you love doing most? Even without being paid, what is that single thing you cannot but do, Make a list and check it out
WAYS OF SUSTAINING ONE'S POTENTIAL
- INVEST IT
A potential discovered but not sustained is like a mount of salt found inside sea without mining -It soon become abandoned
2.CHECK YOUR PEERS
There are two categories of company ;
FIREFIGHTER
FIRELIGHTER
FIREFIGHTERS
They brainwash you, devalue you and make sure you never discover the best about yourself, Though they may be very intimate, but their mission is to make sure they bring you down to average level
FIRELIGHTERS
They are those who help to bring out the best in you, they encourage you, support you, defend you and always aim to help you reach the peak of the ladder. Now, check your company and group them accordingly
3.SHUN DOUBT
A man who doubt himself will never be able to do what he can do, to sustain your potential, please flee from doubt.
Other ways to sustain your potential are
Commitment
Self-determination
Discipline among others
DANGERS OF NOT SUSTAINING YOUR POTENTIAL(S)
A very disastrous thing in life is to live a life you weren't created for, potential not sustained experience and retires the owner.Abortion is not getting rid of the fetus, it is when one's potential die even when we live, its one thing to discover yourself and another thing to be yourself
shun low self esteem
believe you "CAN"
A purpose maximize without self confidence doesn't worth celebrating.
Thanks for reading.