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Growth Always Increases Your Capacity

There is no finish line – Nike

Have you ever maxed your capacity? Have you ever reached the fullest expression of yourself? If you are breathing, you have the capacity to enlarge yourself. Authors Kriegel and Patler state in their book If It Ain’t Broke…Break It, The potential that exists within us is limitless and largely untapped…when you think of limits, you create them.

How do you push through toward your potential and keep increasing your capacity? I have heard it said that we only use about 10% of our potential. STOP! That is an amazing statement to ponder! So the next question becomes, how do we tap into the other unused 90%? I believe that the answer lies within changing how we think. MORE does not increase capacity. More of the same is simply more of the same.

Consider these three ways to increase your capacity.

Stop thinking more about work and start thinking about what works – Working more is the typical answer to the question, “How do you increase your capacity?” More of the same is more of the same, when what we want is better than what we have. Working long hours and managing an ever increasing To-Do-List is not becoming a person that reaches full potential. Here are a few questions to ask to improve what works: (1) What am I required to do? (2) What gives me the greatest return? (3) What gives me the greatest reward?

Stop thinking can I? and start thinking how can I? – When you ask Can I? indicates hesitation and doubt. It is a question of limitations. Ask it often enough and this single question will sabotage your effort even before you can begin. When you ask the question How can I? assumes a solution and positive outcome. There is a way, I just need to find it !Sharon Wood the first North American woman to climb Mount Everest stated discovered that it was not solely about physical strength but about psychological strength.

Author Price Pritchett in his book YOU writes, “Your skepticism, which you presume is based on rational thinking and an objective assessment of factual data about yourself, is rooted in mental junk. Your doubts are not the product of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking. Years ago you accepted flawed conclusions as correct, began to live your life as if those warped ideas about your potential were true, and ceased the bold experiment in living that brought you many breakthrough behaviors as a child. Now it is time for you to find that faith you had in yourself before.”

Stop Thinking One Door and Start Thinking Many Doors – Do not bet your future potential on just one door for the fullest expression of God’s creative work in you.

• There is more than one way to do something successful.
• The odds of arriving anywhere increase with creativity and adaptability.
• Movement with intentionality creates possibilities.
• Failures and setbacks can be great tools for learning
• Knowing the future is difficult; controlling the future is impossible.
• Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.
• Success is a result of continued action filled with continual adjustments.

Having just examined how to increase you thinking capacity, let us turn our attention to increasing our capacity for action. Consider the following…

Stop doing only those things you have done before and start doing things you could and should do – The first step toward success is becoming good at what you know how to do. The more you do what you know how to do, the more you discover additional worthy things you could do. When you reach this point you have a decision to make. Will you continue doing what you have always done or will you leap and try new things. Picasso stated “I am always doing that which I cannot do in order to learn how to do it.”

Stop doing what is expected and start doing more than expected – We live in a culture that awrds people with trophies for just showing up. Former CEO of GE, Jack Welch says this is not helping people to get out of the pile – you have to rise above average.

Stop doing important things occasionally and start doing important things daily – Writer Henry David Thoreau stated once “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live a life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; and he will will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”

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