Uncovering Your Untapped Potentials

I believe it is important to first understand the word "potential" before diving deeper into this exciting topic. The dictionary defines potential as, "having or showing capacity to become or develop into something in the future." The keywords that stand out in that definition are "having" and "showing." Therefore the question I will leave you with today is, what do you have? In the book of Exodus chapter 4 verse 1 Moses was hesitant about going to deliver God's message to the Israelites as directed by God because he had the perfect excuse that the people will not believe him. In verse 2 of the same chapter God asked him, "what do you have in your hand?" The miracles that followed as soon as he answered that simple question is history as you will find out in the rest of the chapter. In another bible story, a certain woman who needed help with paying off debts that the husband accumulated prior to his death ran to Elisha the prophet and outlined her misfortune. Unbeknownst to this woman, her answered lied in the very least thing she already had in her house. Elisha simply asked, "what do you have in your house?" The rest of the story tells us how Elisha blessed what she had and she was able to pay her debt and even had more left.

What is in front of you, and what do you have that you are not seeing?

Not maximizing your potential is like having a lifelong treasure that you don't open, or better still, owning a fat bank account yet broke at the same time.

Potentials are latent qualities and abilities that need further development before they can yield any useful result. It is almost never about what you don't have, but mainly about maximizing what you already have to its full capacity. Most of us are yet to tap into one-third of the potentials deposited into us by God because we sometimes want to distract our selves from our true abilities while we wait for already made solutions. Often due to the fact that potentials require hard work and commitment in the beginning in order to reveal the expected result. Potential requires action to turn into actual result.

Steps to Action:

• Think positively - You have to be able to think. Thinking is not an easy process. Some people think positively, while others only see the negative, so their thoughts don't produce good results

• Be willing to put in the necessary work - A different action will produce a different result

• Don't be afraid to develop yourself through learning opportunities

• Conquer the agelong beliefs that limit you

By Dr. Precious Alino