REACHING YOUR POTENTIAL

WHAT IS MY POTENTIAL?

Michael Angelo attempted to carve 44 statues in his life, but was only able to completely carve 14.  30 were never completed. Of some of the statues that were recovered, there was an arm and a shoulder sticking out of a block of granite… All incomplete. There are people like that in the body of Christ, you never get to see them the completed person. Our body produces every chemical needed to heal itself, so each of us identify literally a mass of positive potential.

THE AVERAGE PERSON HAS SOLD THEMSELVES WAY SHORT.

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO REACH MY POTENTIAL?

•  Many people make short what God has attempted to make large through us.
• Col.3:17 “All that we do should be done through excellence and ultimately please/ glorify God.
• It Is a Sad Thing Because There’s No Telling How Many People in the Kingdom Are Living Far Short Of Their God Given Potential.
• By Reaching Our Potential We Become A Tool To Help And Bless Others.

KEYS TO REACHING YOUR POTENTIAL

1.  BE YOURSELF, THEN BE ALL YOU CAN BE

• Be comfortable with yourself and who you are.
• Don’t try to reach someone else’s potential, you will not be judged on other’s potential but your own.

2.  KEEP GROWING

   A MAN’S MIND ONCE STRETCHED BY A NEW IDEA CAN NEVER AGAIN RETAIN ITS ORIGINAL DIMENSIONS.       OLIVER WINDELL HOLMES

STEPS TO STAGNATION

• We’ve never done it that way before.
• We tried once but we failed.
• It won’t work/ it’s not my responsibility
• It can’t be done/ it’s not my fault that we might fail.
• In order to reach your potential, one has to start growing.
• If you stop growing, you start shrinking.

IF YOU DO NOT REACH FOR A DREAM BIGGER THAN YOU ARE, YOU WON’T GROW

3.  DON’T EXPECT EXPERTS TO ALWAYS BE RIGHT.

• We cannot always rely on the opinions of others.

“Walt Disney was told he was not good enough. He went against the opinions of an expert and became one of the world’s greatest cartoonists.”

4. EXPECT GREAT THINGS TO HAPPEN

• Jeremiah 29:11---Positive expectations always
• Adopt an attitude of “we see what we are prepared to see”

WHAT WE GET OUT OF LIFE IS WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN LIFE.

5.  DEVOTE YOURSELF TO DO SOMETHING WELL.

• Play your strengths and never to your weakness.

   LIST TWO THINGS THAT YOU DO AND ASK YOURSELF?

•      Am I doing it more or less today?

•      Am I developing it more or less? / Am I working on them?

•      Am I bringing others around me to compliment my weakness?

6. NEVER TAKE SHORT-CUTS

THERE IS NO QUICK WAY TO REACH YOUR POTENTIAL…ZACK4:10

 People who take short-cuts lack:

  a).  Gratitude

  b). Maturity

  c). Discipline

  d). Exposure

7.  FACE YOUR FEARS

• Most bars we face, we put them there…..proverbs24:16
• Fear keeps you from reaching your potential.
• Give what you have!!!!!!!!!!

8.  CHOOSE YOUR FRIENDS WISELY

• He who walks with the wise will be wise.

• God builds relationally, if you with someone that lacks potential, you will lag behind!!!!!!!!!
•  Growth comes from friendship; if friends grow then you will grow too.

9.  HAVE A MISSION THAT MOTIVATES YOU.

• Without a vision, people perish/ cast off restraint, go wild, lose hope.
• Have a dream, a vision, a goal…something to work towards achieving.
• God gives you a vision to carry you high so that you can carry others higher and enrich and help others as well.

10.  DEDICATE YOUR LIFE TO GOD

IF GOD IS YOUR PARTNER, YOU CAN MAKE YOUR PLANS BIG.

GIVE YOUR LIFE TO GOD, NO MAN HAS REGRETTED IT.