The Moments That Define One’s Life

My True Potential Potential is having a look at something, not knowing what it could become but expecting it to bring the best possible results. Many people will look at others and not know what potential lies inside another individual until time reveals and releases all of the potential that was internalized within that person. Reaching self-actualization is when all your potential in life has been utilized and applied to its maximum capacity. That is why one must know what lies inside one so that it can be unleashed to others to achieve something that is backed by a purpose. Potential is inside all of us. The reason it has not been discovered is because there is no one or force that has the power to unlock it. Potential, by all means, stays in the corner of your four walls until you find a way to release its energy in the world. Once its energy is released, and the power of it gains momentum, it becomes an unstoppable force that surges an individual toward self-actualization. Attaining self-actualization for anyone is not easy. Self-actualization, to many, is the highest mountain to climb and the farthest distance that anyone can reach. It is only until one climbs and reaches self-actualization that one’s potential in life is fully revealed through intense passion and purpose. Personally, I wanted to reach self-actualization, but before I could reach it, I needed to release my God-given talents and potential to the world. It could never be unveiled being stagnant. Potential, in every sense of the aspect, must be activated by motion so that its energy can be channeled through my desired dreams and destiny. Releasing it over and over again would be having a desire that knows no boundaries and having an ambition that knows no surrender. Not knowing how hard potential was and how much time it would take all that mattered to me was finding a way to tap into it and project its energy at all possible cost. Once all of my potential had been exhausted, I would give myself every meaning to achieve and exceed all of my limitations in life. Achieving self-actualization would mean when I climb the hierarchy of needs, my social needs were met, my security, self-esteem, physiological needs were satisfied along with having my self belonging needs sustained. I wanted to reach it, but some force kept blocking me from achieving its possibilities. No matter how hard I tried to push for it, I kept getting pushed back and pulled away from my dreams and goals. It just seemed that there was a greater force that blocked me from reaching my true potential, and the only way that I would ever stand a chance to see a break through happen is when I break down the walls that have prevented me from making it become possible. As a youngster, I knew I always had great potential. The one thing that I often lacked was to make my potential actualized. I just wanted to believe that I can reach a point in my life where I can not only reach it one time but also reach it over and over again. I wanted to believe my efforts and hard work were not a mistake, and that they were talents that were held inside of me so that a greater dream can be accomplished, and when that one dream or goal would be accomplished, another dream and goal will also be brought into reality. Through the midst of it all, it would never be easy because I faced many challenges. The one challenge I had was tapping into the energy and power into making my dreams possible. I had dreams, dreams that made me imagine what my future will be like if they became a reality. I had visions of creating a successful business, visions that would range from being an ordinary student in school to eventually someone who would grow with all the knowledge and experience to rise to a successful entrepreneur. I had an imagination to create a legacy where I can be remembered by millions of people across the world. I had a voice that I wanted everyone to hear, but I needed a medium through which it can be channeled to others. I needed to have the heart to inspire and change the lives of others, but I needed a vision to make that dream possible. I had to be strong, focused, and faithful that no matter which direction I turned I will never steer myself away from my targeted destination. Even at an early age, I was often business-minded with whatever I wanted to do. When it would come to starting a business, I thought of ways to make it happen in every direction I thought possible. As a youngster, my mind was wired for business, and my motives were geared toward making profits. If I bought something for fifty cents, I would try to double or triple my profits in selling it back to people. All that mattered to me was making money and saving whatever money I would make and watch it grow. In school, I knew I had potential in my classes, and I strived continuously to set goals that I challenged myself to reach so that I can be the best that I can possibly be in class. My potential at times arrived at some crossroads when it was thwarted by other people outperforming me to make it to the top. It just seemed that this continued till I became twenty-six years old. Every task that I ever put my hands to was outshined or outhustled by someone else working a little harder than me. Whenever I would get back my grade from a test taken, I would normally feel that I had the highest grade in the class, only to realize that I would round out to the top five people in class, landing oftentimes in the fourth or fifth place. Most times when it came to writing, I felt the same way. When an essay was written in my English class, and I received my results, it would round out to the top three. It made me feel that whatever I did, no matter how hard I tried, I could never be number one. My potential would be reached, but it would never be actualized. No matter what I did, it would never be acknowledged as the best by others. My potential, thus, would never be actualized in the sense that it can outshine and outperform others who were also taking on the same tasks that I took on. There had to be something different about me that made my capabilities and talents in the world unequal to them. The only conclusion that I could draw was that they had something that I did not have. I said to myself, Maybe if I keep trying, one day my potential will be actualized until it reaches a point where it will be fully maximized. And when it becomes maximized, all the efforts and dreams and goals that I once envisioned in my life will no longer be unattainable. The problem for me was that it was taking too long for it to happen. One fact that is certain is that life can’t be the same for anyone all the time. One day the time will be right, and when it is right, the right action must be taken. I never had anyone to measure up to my potential because I didn’t live up to anyone else’s expectations but my own. The problem that I had in dealing with my potential was that the nail kept becoming difficult to drive through the wall. One day I will be strong, but another day, I will face a challenge to never finish what I started. It seemed my determination was strong, but my focus did not match my determination at times. Instead of becoming stronger, I kept getting weaker. I was weakened by distractions and the circumstances that placed limits on my life. I was on a roller coaster ride not ever to see the end of where it would take me. I was left with no other choice but never to stop trying and fighting until my potential was actualized and eventually maximized. It came to a point where I would never stop to believe in myself when no one believed in me. You must know the full potential a project holds before you take it on otherwise your actions toward it will shortchange your own potential in the process.