Posts Tagged ‘potential’

How to take steady steps towards fulfilling your potential

Three steps cover most of what is needed to discover and then make full use of your potential:

Exploration of options, strengths, and weaknesses, in depth and without haste.
Patient removal of blockages.
Long-term, continuous development and learning.

The first step increases your self-awareness and gets beyond superficial judgments about strengths and weaknesses. You mustn’t simply jog along and let your automatic habits take the strain, or you’ll become narrow and parochial, priding… » Continue

November 5 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: habit, life, potential | 7 comments»

To boost your potential, try saying “Yes” more often

Have you ever noticed how often you say “No?” Not just to things that merit refusal, but to fresh ideas, new possibilities and the chance to make unexpected discoveries? Whenever you say “No” to life, you miss an opportunity: to discover something new, to try something you haven’t tried before, to learn and grow, to find some aspect of yourself or others that you missed before. To start afresh with… » Continue

January 29 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: attitude, creativity, habit, motivation, potential | 5 comments»

Getting High Performance out of High Potential People

Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr, shares her notes on a presentation at O’Reilly FOO Camp called Getting High Performance out of High Potential People. From what I read from the notes, the presenter, Keoki Andrus of Intuit, delivered a presentation with quite a punch and great content. High potential people is hard to come by - and getting high performance from them can be hard as well. Couple of ways… » Continue

December 7 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Management, motivation, potential | 1 comment»