5 ways to unleash your potential
- Be honest with yourself about your skills and abilities. Most of us underestimate how many
things we do well. Figure out your skills & abilities, and look for ways to incorporate them into
your life & work.
- Listen to compliments. Use the feedback to help you identify your strengths and abilities.
If it's tough for you to recognize your strengths on your own, let others help you.
- Exercise at least 3-4 times a week for 20-30 minutes. Exercise gives you more positive energy,
dissipates negative energy and builds your confidence.
- Realize that you were given certain gifts, talents and abilities for a reason. You are supposed
to use them!
- Watch out for self-sabotage. Sometimes, it's easy to believe that success & happiness are meant
for other people, not for us. Thus, we do activities that keep us from being successful (we
procrastinate on positive tasks, we stay in negative relationships that bring us down, we develop
addictions, etc.) Are you self-sabotaging?
Shari Peace is an international speaker, an author, and the president of Peace Talks, a Dayton, Ohio-based professional speaking firm. Her book, Crank It Out! How to Get More Done - At Work & In Your Life, features time management and productivity tips. Reach her at 1-877-808-8520 or at www.sharipeace.com.
"One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle
of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world --
making the most of one's best."
-- From Getting the Most Out of Life, by Reader's Digest books
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