Unlocking the potential of the best version of ourselves doesn't have to be hard or complicated.
Sometimes you just need to know where to begin.
Use these 6 life-proof steps to pick at the locks inside of you.
1. Work Out Your Goals
The first step on the road to unlocking your potential is to set some goals. And the best way to work out what your goals should be is to ask yourself some big questions: what do you want your average day to look like?
Consider:
• If you could achieve one more thing before you die, what would it be?
• What things in life give you the most pleasure or fulfillment?
Your answers should help you determine what exactly it is you want from life and the goals you’ll need to aim for in order to achieve those things.
2. Dream Big, Start Small
Whether you dream of founding a charity, building your own house, or inventing the next Macarena, big ambitions can be daunting. But that doesn’t mean you should shy away from them. You might decide that you want to make the world a better place – in fact, you probably should – but where do you start with that one?
It’s easy to be intimidated by big dreams like this, and fear can be a huge barrier to us achieving our potential. The best way to deal with this problem is to treat each dream like a nice, big meal, and break it down into bite-sized chunks.
Work backwards from your ultimate goal and define the individual steps you’ll need to take in order to eventually achieve it. And if you build these steps into habits, you’ll be far more likely to achieve them.
3. Build Good Habits
Never underestimate the power of the habit. Bad ones (smoking, procrastinating, falling asleep during dinner with the in-laws) can stop us from living the life we want to live, and good ones are the key to unlocking our potential. Positive things done once in a blue moon – be it exercise, healthy eating or learning a new skill – aren’t particularly beneficial. If you want to be the next sports superstar, you’re going to have to practice more than once or twice. But if we turn positive actions into habits, we supercharge them, and we’re far more likely to succeed.
4. Challenge How You See Yourself
Most of us have a pretty strong idea of what kind of a person we are: what we’re good at, what we’re not so good at. Or at least we think we do. The fact is that just as our talents can be misunderstood by others – “hang on I’m brilliant at dancing!” – it’s possible for us to put unfair labels on ourselves, too.
A bad experience in math class could have us living the rest of our lives under the assumption that we’re lousy with numbers, when this may not be true. This kind of mislabeling can really hold us back and is worth challenging.
One simple exercise is to pick something you think you’re bad at but would like to be good at (spelling, table tennis, singing) and devote 15 minutes each day to getting better at it. As your confidence builds, so should your ability. See where you get to over the course of a month – you might be in for a surprise.
5. Try New Stuff
So there are the things you know you find fulfilling, and the things you know don’t fulfil you, and these of course are limited to the things you’ve actually tried. It’s an obvious one, but trying new stuff is a great way to make discoveries about yourself: your likes, dislikes and capabilities. It also makes life a lot more interesting. So why not make a pact with yourself to try something new this week. It could be something big (learn how to code) or something small (learn how to make kimchi), but either way, you might find it pushes open a doorway to a new path in life.
6. Love Your Gut
A bit odd to see this here no doubt. There’s now lots of evidence that healthier guts are linked to better immunity, energy levels and mood. And just think what you could achieve if you were even a tiny bit healthier, happier and more energetic, every single day. A healthy gut means more energy for creating potentially ANYTHING!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR & COACH
Catherine is a heart-centred wellness therapist, transformational coach, intuitive counsellor and mindfulness facilitator who specialises in helping you create calm confidence, nourish your self esteem and self-love, build healthy boundaries, ditch perfectionism and people-pleasing, and get out of your own way to achieve the life you deserve.
She offers her wise words, actions, and guidance to help people connect positively with their body, mind, and soul.
Her sessions provide you with real-life the support and the readily accessible mindset tools you need to achieve this.
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