Potential and Possibilities are just two sides of the same coin.
Potential is internal and based on the qualities you now possess; Possibilities are the various forms your Potential may take when expressed in the outside world.
Appreciating the difference helps you make the most of both!
Try looking at uncertainty not as a gun to your head, but as a surfboard for riding rogue waves; now hang ten!
Developing your Principles requires consistent effort over time. The substance of your Principles – maturity, insight, and their development – cannot be “crammed”, as if for an exam.
Every opportunity to develop your principles is singularly unique, and once gone it cannot be recovered. Hence the saying: “Negligence is an extreme thing.”
So remember, each day is full of opportunities to develop your Principles – make the effort to seize every one!
There are two ways to look at unavoidable obstacles created by your past.
You can look at them as chains dragging behind you, or see them as obstructions that you now get the opportunity to move beyond. T
he former viewpoint erodes your confidence; the latter builds it. Easy choice!
Conviction should never feel like a dead weight. Rather, it should feel like and function as dynamic fuel for excelling yourself.
Don’t bother trying to replace “bad” emotions with “good’ ones – you will find it a continual struggle, and not really worth the uphill battle. Trying to corral your bad emotions doesn’t work either – they can consume you if you try.
Instead, work to purge yourself of emotions that are of no use to you. A good start is to say to yourself: “Y’know, at the end of the day……”, and then see what really matters in terms of getting the results you’re looking for.
This is a simple but effective way to make your emotions work for you rather than against you.
Recognition is a product; Awareness is a process.