Your Potential From Someone Else’s Perspective
What Could Someone Who Appreciated It, Do With Your Life?
Try this to gain a renewed energy for what you can accomplish, just as you are: Write a description of the most positive attributes about yourself, your life, your personal situation, your health, your fitness, finances, friendships and the other main aspects of your life. Leave out anything negative and only describe the positive. (As if you were writing a description for e-Harmony or a new job!)
Look over that list of the best things about you and consider what a reasonable person would say could be accomplished with the person you have described. Are there some people who would love to be the things you are and to have the things you have? What would a highly motivated person do with your life? What could you do in the next few hours, few days or few weeks, to make the most of the best parts of the life you have? If someone else was going to take what you have to the optimal level, what would they need to eliminate, replace, do more of or emphasize?
Another Exercise To Get You Moving
If you hired someone to manage your life and maximize your chances for health, happiness and success, what would they likely suggest that you do, not do, do more of or do instead of, what you are doing now?
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Our chief want in life is someone who will make us do what we can.” Be that person for yourself. Consider working with a coach or counselor, a friend or group who will remind you, guide you and push you when you need it.
The main thing is this: You have enough in your life that someone would envy you. You have enough that someone with good judgment and focus could do great things with it. Appreciate that and resolve–then follow through–to do as much as possible with what you have. There is a thought, attributed to several writers, most notably Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot): “It’s never too late to become what you might have been.” Believe it and keep moving toward your best dreams and goals.
