Categories: Self-Improvement

How to unlock your Potential

The following tips can help you unlock your potential:

Define success – What does success means to you? Does it mean being financially stable? owning a home? Success depends on your own ability and determination to work hard. Define your success and work towards achieving it.
Set realistic goals – Don’t be over excited and set big, unrealistic goals forgetting that you need to make sure they are realistic and attainable. Start small as you look to setting and achieving bigger goals. No goal or milestone is too small or insignificant.
Believe in yourself – Self belief can take you to places and makes you seek opportunities you never thought you would.
Have the right attitude – Your attitude will determine the amount of effort you will put in achieving success. It will also help you carry out your role effectively and to do more than you have been assigned. Your attitude is what will guide you when things get tough, and failure comes.
Seize opportunities along the way – Don’t let opportunities pass you, make the best of use of your environment to create a livelihood for your self and family.
Don’t shy a way from asking for help – Your weakness is someone else strength therefore ask for help where necessary. Learn from one another, this will go along way helping build each other.
Focus on the future – Don’t focus so much on your current life but rather use it to prepare for a better tomorrow. Work hard now for a better tomorrow.
Be challenged – Challenges will help you get out of your comfort zone and enable you to be creative besides enabling you to grow.
Go the extra mile – Going an extra mile, is what differentiate an ordinary and an extraordinary individual. Learn to do more than is expected of you.
Have a reputable character – Be someone people can look up to . Develop your space and gain respect for being who you are.
Lastly surround yourself with the best – Have friends that can challenge you to achieve more.

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John Mulindi

John writes on a variety of topics. He blogs on topics ranging from social media marketing (SMM), search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), email marketing, business, personal finance tech, entrepreneurship to personal development. In free time he likes watching football, reading, listening to music and taking nature walks.

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Kia says:

September 28, 2019 at 9:25 am

Thanks for this!
It’s always good to look up at remember the big picture, and what it is we are trying to achieve.
// Kia
- John Mulindi says:
  
  September 28, 2019 at 1:38 pm
  
  Appreciated.
Erin says:

September 28, 2019 at 3:45 am

Thank you for the research and putting it in list form. Know these, just have to remember to apply these ?
- John Mulindi says:
  
  September 28, 2019 at 1:39 pm
  
  Hi Erin, am grateful for your feedback.
Nyxinked says:

September 27, 2019 at 11:27 pm

Great post! Very inspirational and you've helped motivate me to really push myself towards what I know I can do!
- John Mulindi says:
  
  September 28, 2019 at 12:30 am
  
  Hi Nyxi, happy to learn that. Thanks for reading.
Under Flowery Sky says:

September 27, 2019 at 6:09 pm

Thanks for the motivating words..
- John Mulindi says:
  
  September 28, 2019 at 12:33 am
  
  Appreciated!
kumamonjeng says:

February 22, 2019 at 12:27 pm

I love reading such post, so motivating and inspiring for me. I find such post is like a dosage of vitamin which I need for my brain. I love the idea of don't shy away from asking for help. There is no harm and no shame in asking for help. We don't expect everyone know everything.
- John Mulindi says:
  
  February 22, 2019 at 12:33 pm
  
  True, when we ask for help, we open doors for other people to come and help others which is a way to building our potential.
Jacque Hooper says:

February 22, 2019 at 5:06 am

So true about surrounding yourself with the right people. After all, you are the company you keep!
- John Mulindi says:
  
  February 22, 2019 at 12:04 pm
  
  True. Thanks.
Create. Play. Travel. says:

February 22, 2019 at 3:12 am

Attainable goals are a great step towards achieving success. I tend to look at the big picture and don't make a plan to accomplish all my tasks. I could benefit from following a to-do list.
- John Mulindi says:
  
  February 22, 2019 at 12:04 pm
  
  Glad you have learned something from this. Thanks.
Tiffany La Forge-Grau says:

February 22, 2019 at 12:31 am

These are some stellar tips! Success comes from so many areas that it's important to know ALL the ways that can help you unlock your full potential.
- John Mulindi says:
  
  February 22, 2019 at 12:36 am
  
  Thanks Delia.
Vanessa Delia says:

February 22, 2019 at 12:29 am

Realistic goals are a vital part to success. If you set yourself up for failure, it will feel impossible.
- John Mulindi says:
  
  February 22, 2019 at 12:35 am
  
  Yes, it all begins in your mind. What you think is what you becomes.
Allie says:

February 21, 2019 at 9:03 pm

What a great motivational blog you got on here! I could use this in my everyday life
- John Mulindi says:
  
  February 21, 2019 at 10:14 pm
  
  Thanks for the positive feedback!