9 Reasons Why You Can't Reach Your Potential
No eternal vision and goals
lack of knowledge or expertise
Lack of order and organization
Still carrying on old beliefs, attitudes, and poor thinking patterns
Unable to distinguish priorities and allocate resources appropriately
Fear of failure, rejection, loss (risk), or even fear of success itself
Bruised self-esteem and lack of confidence
Ways to Set Timeless Visions and Goals
Aim big (build a cathedral instead of moving bricks)
Ambition goals stimulate the subconscious mind and create motivation
Improve your level of imagination and let your "seeing" reach a higher level
Separate goals from plans
Don’t let plans limit your goals
Plans are often related to current abilities. Don’t let current abilities kill your vision.
Less training and more emotionally stimulating challenges
Avoid setting goals that are too far away
Goals that are too far away in time will make us feel that they are in the future and hinder our ability to take action.
Setting goals must have a specific time limit, which seems very urgent
When expressing goals, use the present tense
Can increase real sense of identity
Makes people more engaged
Can bring excellent performance. Be your best now rather than “trying” to be your best someday in the future
Can provide belief that dreams are possible to come true
Accept the life-work imbalance that comes with prioritizing results
Set goals from macro to micro
Primary goal – reason for existence and values
Mission - the concrete manifestation of goals
Vision - a picture of life after achieving your goals
Strategy/Plan – a set of intermediate goals
Key principles: V-P-A-R, namely Vision-Plan-Action-Result
Everything is centered on opportunities and flexible strategies to achieve primary goals
Kiss - Make actions simple and meaningful
Awesome Special Mission—Short-Term Breakthrough Goals
Solve reasons 1 and 2 for not realizing your potential
self-improvement
Create your own success paradigm and align your way of thinking, speaking, behavior and mental outlook with your own success model
Continuously learn and improve, and make structured and prudent improvements to yourself, your business, or your professional life.
Solving the 3rd reason why you can’t reach your potential
Establish order and organization
Design checklists and templates to focus on what matters
Systematically organize items and documents so that everything is in its proper place, keeping work and life in order
Addressing No. 4 Reasons for Not Realizing Your Potential
Basic Principle of “See It, Act It”
The mind cannot tell the difference between reality and imagination
seeing is believing. We can only achieve what we believe in, so if we see it, we believe in it and go for it
The mental images we have in our minds can have a huge impact on how we act, perform, and get results. If the mind imagines success, we will do things in a way that is consistent with that success, and we will get results that are consistent with that success
The subconscious mind is like a child. What we teach it is what it believes. We should instill in it the correct imagination and association, and give it the correct instructions to obtain the results we want.
The thoughts we feed into our subconscious mind control our behavior in the form of habits. We know that successful people are people who have habits that bring success
If we do not indoctrinate our subconscious mind in this way, it will find other connections and weave other sets of beliefs that determine our behavior.
Summarize
The subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between reality and imagination. The subconscious mind believes what it sees. The subconscious mind will control our behavior in a habitual way. Therefore, we need to instill successful things into the subconscious mind, thereby developing the habits of successful people.
Beliefs of successful people
Believe in what you see and believe that you can achieve what you see
Take personal responsibility
Determine whether things are within your circle of influence
Think about the future in a positive and forward-thinking way
Believe that everything happens for a reason, and that coincidence and luck are always opportunities that can be exploited
Addressing the 5th reason for not reaching your potential
time plan
Create a time structure to achieve the effect of doing things with success in mind
Based on the year, week, and day, allocate annual plans (focusing on key factors of goals), weekly plans (specific goals for each week), and daily plans (daily action plans)
Learn to make full use of resources
two strategies
Either don’t invest, or clarify your goals and invest time, energy, and money at the same time.
Prevent resource leakage, such as TV programs consuming time, and you can choose interests and hobbies closer to the target to replace TV programs
Addressing No. 6 Reasons for Not Reaching Your Potential
Develop a mindset for action
Set aside time for strategic thinking
Find a space away from distractions
Identify a topic relevant to your goals
Utilize various mental modeling tools
Inspiring Positive Action – The FEVER Principle
Focus F: Higher than the target to ensure that the results are not worse than the target
Energy E: Have a strong mental image of the goal to be accomplished, the more specific the better
Vision V: Picture in your mind as much detail as possible what the task will look like after you complete it
Enthusiasm E: Accompanied by energy, enthusiasm can improve efficiency
Reason R: Have a strong reason to complete the task
Focus on action – action must lead to results
Focus on things that bring results
Find out the key factors to achieve short-term goals and do things that affect the key factors
Take bold action consistently
Done is more important than perfect, develop the habit of finishing
symptoms of procrastination
Thinking too much and doing nothing
Telephone phobia - unwillingness to make phone calls
Keep accumulating but not taking action
Treatment programs
Prioritize the toughest things
Start with the simplest thing first
Task breakdown to make tasks seem less daunting
Adopt the FEVER principle
Stay away from distractions
Always maintain positive energy
Connect with positive people, do positive activities, keep positive thoughts and create more energy
Reduce energy waste and don’t let things that have little to do with your goals consume too much energy.
Maintain high energy levels through a cyclical structure of diet, fitness, and rest
Eight principles of focus
Focus on your unique talents – try to do what you do best
Focus on excellence in key result areas
Focus on your time, energy and monetary resources
Focus on a few major and lasting breakthroughs
Solve reasons 7, 8, and 9 for not reaching your potential
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