Monday, May 23, 2011

Pure Potential

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."  George Bernard Shaw

There's a problem with thinking that we need to find ourselves.
The problem is - if we think that we need to find ourselves in order to achieve our dreams and goals n life, we'll likely fail. Why will we fail? Because there's nothing to find.

What you are is pure potential. You have the ability to be anything that you want badly enough. But pure unrealized potential is hard to see. It's undefined, shadowy, ghost-like. Your job is not to find it, your job is to turn it into form.

The way you do that is to decide what you want, to choose the path that makes your heart sing - even if you don't think that you have any natural talents for it.
You may be surprised to find that you're wrong about the talents. All that unrealized potential may have more stored up in it than you think.

You'll never know until you put away the voices that say, "Who are you to think you can do that?" Choose a new voice that says, "Who am I to think I can't do that?"
Then, as our quote says, you can get to work creating yourself. Build the skills as you go. Turn that potential into the person that you need to be to live your dream.

We're all waiting, and cheering you on!

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