Potential – Part 2

Is your life all it really can be?

In our day to day – and throughout our lives, do we bring all that we have to bring?

We each have wonderful qualities to share with others – your flavour is something personal to you. What you bring is not the same as what the person next to you brings, and so on. Contrary to what most if not all of us have been taught, and tend to believe, we do not need to be an expert in everything or really good at everything, because no single person could ever be expected to fulfil that. The thing is, there are many of us (some 7 billion in fact!) – and others are there to bring what we may not. Likewise, we can bring what others cannot – and it is actually up to us to ensure that we do bring what we can, so that everyone gets all of what each of us is capable of.

When we bring our all to something, that helps us all to be greater.

The key to making this work is for each of us to bring everything we have to bring – for when we do, we all – i.e. the whole lot of us, benefit.

Fact: the whole grows or expands when the individuals within it expand. That is actually a very beautiful phenomenon to realise. We are all part of the whole – when one person brings their all, we all benefit from that.

Can you imagine what life on earth would be like if every single one of us brought our all to everyone and everything we encountered?

Let’s have a look at that more closely… How much of the time would we say, we are really “on”? When we are on, we are fully applying ourselves to the task at hand, really connecting with the person/people we are with, and it feels like we are really firing on all cylinders, so to speak. But if we are really honest, we may realise, or admit, that this is not how we are living each and every day – we may well see that it is not how we work all day, or how we interact with all people, or offer or bring to our families and friends, all of the time. In fact, we may be prepared to admit that a lot of the time, we bring a lot less.

If we admit this – that a lot of the time, we bring a lot less than we can, then this is directly linked to our potential – and whether we are living it or not.

Living less than our potential really lets us down.

So what are the effects of this?

It affects us personally, because we get to live in a lesser way, and this determines how we feel from day to day. When we are “on” and bringing our all to something, it actually reinvigorates us. When we bring less – it is actually draining. We end up feeling not so crash hot – tired, run down, and perhaps a bit ‘over it all’ – simply because we are bringing so much less than we could. Yes, there are always external circumstances and people that play their part – however what is offered here is that us living our potential or not, is what makes a real difference.

In addition, we are not the only ones affected by our living as less. It also lets all those around us down, as they don’t get the full us – they don’t get to benefit from the so-much-more that we could be bringing.

If you are very, very capable (which we all are) of really connecting with someone – your work colleague, your partner, your child, your friend, but you decide to bring less – and be shut off, not open to them, not really committed to what is being discussed or done – and generally just offering less than you could… then what we need to see is that this feeds back directly to: how we ourselves feel, AND how others feel around us.

The truth is, we all suffer whenever any of us brings less than we could.

What we can take away from the above is that there is much potential that we all have, and that we could be bringing – to those we are with, to the way we work, to the way we interact, and the way we go about doing all the things we do.

In Part 3 of this series, we look in detail at the question – is my life all it really could be? This is an exposing look at who actually determines this…. us or the outside world.

This article was first published in Evolve College’s Studymassage News.