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This chart comes from the Wikipedia Article on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, which can be found by clicking here.

Maslow’s Hierarchy – The Need For Self Actualization – Revisited

Continuous Effort – Not Strength Or Intelligence – Is The Key To Unlocking Our Potential (Winston Churchill)

Some Definitions

Potential – Capable of being or becoming.  Expressing possibility.  An expression of what is possible.

Continuous – Without cessation.  Without stopping.  Constant.

Effort – Exertion of physical or mental power.  An earnest or strenuous attempt.  Something done by hard work.

Strength – Mental power, force or vigor.  Moral power, firmness, or courage.  Power by reason of influence, authority, resources, numbers, etc.

Intelligence – Capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.  Manifestation of a high mental capacity.  The faculty of understanding.

Key – Something affords a means of access.  Something that secures or controls entrance to a place.

Unlocking – To give access to; open.  To set free; release.

So, What Is Your Potential?

As we suggested above, your potential is an expression of what is possible.

When applied to people, it is an expression of what a person is capable of being or becoming.

That’s what self-actualization is all about.  It is about becoming.

So I ask you, what are you capable of becoming?

The answer is that you are capable of becoming virtually anything YOU BELIEVE you can be.

The operative words in the previous sentence as what YOU BELIEVE.

Our Beliefs Control Us

Henry Ford said:

If you believe you can do a thing, or do not believe you can do a thing, either way, you’re right.

I know that I believe, on a personal level, that I am capable of doing just about anything I BELIEVE I can do.

Believe – To have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, even in the absence of absolute proof.

My point is that we do not have to have absolute proof in something in order to know that it’s true.

PROOF Of Our Potential Is Not Required – BELIEF In Our Potential Is

This is the point of today’s post.

If we sit around waiting to receive proof of what we’re capable of, we may never get anywhere.

Instead, if we simply believe in ourselves and operate as if it were impossible to fail, we can get started MUCH SOONER toward achieving our potential.

What Do You Think?

I want to know what you think.  Please share your thoughts below.

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