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Self-Growth Equals Striving to Reach your Potential

Guest post by: Iris Barrow

Article Overview: Growth is all about moving to reach our potential as fully-functioning fully-alive human beings. The major keys in this article, i.e. why we should never compare ourselves to others, shows us how to do this. It also gives tools to broaden our perspective of ourselves and thereby stop being self-limiting.

Self-Growth Equals Striving to Reach your Potential



Think of yourself as iceberg, only the tip is showing - your used potential - the rest of the iceberg, that vast unseen area beneath the surface of the water - is your unused potential. It lies there, waiting to be recognised accepted and realised.

The interesting thing about potential is that it grows as you use it.

Using it, that is, extending out of your comfort zone - acts a catalyst to this process.

It is important that we do not act in a self-limiting way.

When you think about it, you are probably achieving things today that you could not conceive of five years ago. By a similar token, you will be able to achieve things in the future that you cannot visualise today.

We never fully realise our potential, because each time we move towards doing so, it increases. This is what ongoing growth is all about.

NEVER COMPARE YOURSELF WITH OTHERS

When we compare ourselves with other people we are always indulging in a down-putting exercise.

It is negative in the extreme to do so; it is also illogical.

You are a unique human being with genetic factors, conditioning, attitudes and perceptions that reflect your uniqueness. Add to this your talents, skills, abilities, strengths, inner resources and experiences, plus the sense you make of your life experiences, and you begin to get some idea of how intrinsically 'different' you are. There never has been and never will be anyone who reacts and responds to life as you do. Therefore how can you possibly compare yourself to other people?

You can be the best pear possible, but if you are a pear you can only be an inferior apple or banana. Or to put it another way, you see things through green tinted glasses, I see them through purple ones and somebody else sees them through yellow, therefore my perception ofhow life is coloured must be different from yours, or theirs.

The only true comparison, and indeed the only one we should make, is to compare ourselves against our potential. The question to be asked is - how far have we moved at this present time, towards realising it?

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