Belief in your potential

"The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see
world class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you
don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait
for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in
self." -- Denis Waitley

This is one of those ah-ha type statements. You know in your gut this makes absolute sense, the fun part is in the implementation.

This, I believe, goes along with the BE, DO, HAVE paradigm. One must become and through that, find and realize one's potential. So how does one 'become'? Some do so through religion and prayer life, others through study and philosophy, some just seem to know their potential all along. I believe all of these avenues are valid expressions of the art of becoming. It does seem that at times we bog down in avenues of becoming and throw up barriers to communication.

At any rate, I really see that we all have massive and as Denis says, “world class potential”. I firmly believe that of everyone I know and meet. I find it unfortunate that we don't all reach for that world class potentiality, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. More to the point, what blocks us from achieving our greatness? This is truly the crux of understanding our potential and becoming all that we are meant to become.

Randy Gage talks often of what he coins, lack mentality. A state of thinking that assumes that we will always lack in one form or another. A lot of times it will be the mentality of; “I will always be poor. Nothing ever works for me. I'm too stupid to make a lot of money. I was born in the wrong neighborhood. I didn't attend the right school. No one likes what I do anyway.” All these and many others. They become a self-fulfilling prophecy. They wire our brains to even hunt for reasons and situations to make this come true for us.

So what to do? Re-wire the brain. It is being seen over and over in science that it is possible to do so. That our neural paths can and do change over time, it is the mechanism of creating a habit in the first place, but new ones can be created and old ones can be left to fade away.

This is where becoming really comes into play. Sitting down and writing out: What do I really want to be? What do I really want to accomplish in my life? What one thing is important enough to make the effort to achieve? Then we get to do our personal development. Working on our 'being' through reading materials and listening to teachers that encourage us and give us skills to move beyond where we are today, taking the integrating process of prayer and/or meditation, then taking the action to go from being...to doing.

Just thoughts. I think I'll go answer those questions for myself again.