Everything In Life Is Potential
By Myles Munroe, PhD
"All men are sent to the word with limitless credit, but few draw to their full extent"
It is a tragedy to know that with over seven billion people on this planet today, only a minute percentage will experience a significant fraction of their true potential. Perhaps you are a candidate for contributing to the wealth of the cemetery. Your potential was not given for you to deposit in the grave. You must understand the tremendous potential you possess and commit yourself to maximizing it in your short lifetime. What is potential, anyway?
Potential is dominant ability, reserved power, untapped strength, unused success, hidden talents, capped capability.
All you can be but have not yet become, all you can do but have not yet done. How far you can reach but have not yet reached? What you can accomplish but have not yet accomplished? Potential is unexposed ability and latent power.
Potential is therefore not what have you done, but what are yet able to do. In other words, what have you done is no longer your potential. What you have successfully accomplished is no longer potential. it is said that unless you do something beyond what you have done you will, you will never grow or experience your full potential. Potential demands that you have never settle for what you have accomplished. One of the great enemies of your potential is your success. In order to realize your full potential, you must never be satisfied with your last accomplished. It is also important that you never let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life that never realized its full potential. You must decide today not to rub the world of the rich valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away with you. Potential never has a retirement plan.
Principles:
- God create everything with potential.
- Nothing in life is instant.
- Everything in life has the potential to fulfill.
- Don't be satisfied with what you now are.
- Don't die without using your full potential.
- The greatest threat to progress is your last successful accomplishment.
