Creating Happiness: Tools for Improving Your Life by James Carr - HTML preview

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Potential

 

Your potential is what you are actually capable of doing. This is a mental and a physical component in the system. Your potential does not change, everyone is capable of extraordinary things, we already know this and I will tell you right now that you are far more capable than you think.

 

We see people every day pull off amazing things that we, or they, never thought possible. Just check out a site like goodnewsnetwork.org if you want an example of amazing things that people do every day.

 

As an example, there is a man in India by the name of Jadav Payeng that spent the last 30 years, single handedly, planting seeds to grow a 1360 acre forest. I highly recommend Googling him if you want to learn more, but this is a prime example of something amazing that an average person can accomplish if they just realize their full potential.

 

People do this every day. People run, bike, or hike across entire countries and continents. People climb mountains, dive deep in the ocean, and build life changing technologies. Not because they are lucky but because they have tapped into their potential. But the pyramids weren’t built by imagination alone or by building them in Minecraft, you have to take action.

 

Realizing your potential doesn’t solve problems without taking that first step and then following through with it.