Unleashing your true Potential (Your Inner Badass!)

Unleashing your true potential can be done by knowing the exact limits of your potential.
Most of the people who don’t reach their true potential fail to do it because they underestimate their abilities and this usually results in accepting mediocre results.
If I brought you a box and told you that it weights one million pounds you may never try to lift it But what if I was lying to you? What if it was really light?
If you believed me without trying to carry the box the result will be setting a new limit for your potential and an additional “I can’t do it” will be added to your list of impossible tasks.
If the example of the box seemed not to be related to your life then you didn’t get it yet. Life is full of such boxes everywhere around you and it’s also full of people who will convince you that you can never carry them. The more you believe them the more you will be limiting your true potential.

You’ve been Brainwashed

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Society is always creating certain ‘barriers’ that are supposedly impenetrable to any normal human being. They are simply out of reach, except if you’re a genius or very lucky. Here is a list of some false beliefs that you may have acquired throughout your life:

I can’t learn a new sport now, I should have started when I was a kid.
It’s very hard to find a decent job these days, there is no way I could ever have a proper job.
No one gets everything in life. You have to choose.
When you get married you won’t have time for any activities.
I can’t quit smoking. Even if I could, it will only be temporarily.
I’m not lucky. If I had been lucky I would have had everything that I wanted.
Luck DOES exist!

Challenge Your Beliefs

It gets really funny when people start spreading false beliefs without even TESTING them. I was once seeking a certain computer certification and whenever I asked someone about it I was told that it’s very hard to pass the exam.
I admit that at the beginning I was about to believe them but then I decided to ask those people “What is so difficult about the exam?”. You’ll be astonished by the reply: “We don’t know. We never tried to take it.” These people believed that the exam was so hard just because other people told them so!
So most people say things and spread beliefs that they haven’t even tested!!
What’s the correct action to take when you get to deal with such people?
First, you should test those opinions. If someone told you that you can’t lift that box over there then don’t just take his word for it, go and try it by yourself. Just because he couldn’t lift it doesn’t mean that you can’t either. Similarly, if someone didn’t have the qualities required to land a job, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have these qualities. People differ in their qualities, strengths and weaknesses. To sum it up:

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”– Henry Ford.