Find Your Potential

Have you found your potential? What is your potential? These are important questions in life. Isn't it funny how we cheer the person who may not be the best athlete, have the greatest of abilities, but if they are giving it 100 percent we cheer them on. On the other side of the coin for some reason we hate the "slacker".
So how can you find your potential whether it be in sport or life? Most of us have more potential than we realize. I happen to be a believer that physical fitness plays a major role in finding our potential in life.

Many people treat their cars better than they do their bodies. If we could only go into the future and see what we might look like, what diseases we might have, then we might be motivated to do something today that might prevent something from happening to us in the future.

I have found many people have the attitude of wanting immediate gratification, wanting something today for not much effort. Life just doesn't work that way. We need to pay the price today to reap the benefits in the future.

 

Taking care of our bodies should be no different than brushing our teeth, or mowing our lawn. How do you think your teeth would look if you didn't brush them for a few months, or how would they look if you only brushed them a few times per year? This is how we need to view our physical fitness. Most of us need to work on keeping in shape at least 5 days per week or every other day.

In my own life I witnessed my transformation from being shy and lacking confidence, to quickly becoming a hard charging self-starter full of ambition and courage, simply by finding physical fitness through jogging. That was 27 years ago and I haven't stopped yet. Most of us have a choice, many make the choice to be unfit and out of shape. Many reach, at least in their minds, the point of no return. A point where they are so unfit and out of shape, that their lifestyles begins to revolve around negative actions, like over-eating, weight gain, sleep problems and lack of confidence and self-esteem.

 

It doesn't have to be this way, you can make changes starting today that can make a difference for your future. Let the positives of being fit transform your life. You'll feel better, look better, have more confidence, you'll think better and more positive influences will begin to transform your life. You'll quickly find gravitation towards becoming healthier, eating better, drinking less alcohol and more importantly, finding your potential. We can't ask more out of life than what we are capable of, but we can attempt to squeeze every bit of our God given potential, what a waste if we don't try. It's out there, just take the first move to grab it and quickly you will walk down a path of improving your life in more ways than you can imagine. Always remember, for most of us we have a choice, to be fit and to reach our potential, or always wonder what that hidden potential might hold. Your full potential was a gift given to you at birth, go out and find it today!

BY Phillip Crone,  is the author of: A Little Bit Over a Long Period of Time.