SECTION 3: Unlocking & Releasing Your Potential: Revealing Your Gifts, Abilities, Capabilities and Promises

Congratulations on making it nearly half-way through the course. It is extraordinary that you have made it this far and are continuing to persevere and persist in unlocking and releasing your potential. By now, you have accumulated knowledge, tools, and incredible resources that assist you in recognizing your unique gifts, strengths, capabilities and growth edges (weaknesses.) You have also reflected on what you are passionate about and have been working in your area of passion and purpose. 

 

Now, we will put all of these findings together so that we may be able to identify patterns in your gifts, strengths and capabilities to help us to begin to deeply understand and recognize your potential. Review and reflect on your The Real You Results, your gifts, passions, growth edges and personal reflections; what are the common themes and patterns? Now reflect on your action planning process, which habits threaten your potential manifesting? What internal dialogue is preventing you from taking action? What are your personal core values? What are your professional values? 

 

Now think about your goals. How are each of your SMARTER goals tailored to unlock your potential? How do they intersect with the growth of your whole being? Which of these SMARTER Goals are connected to your spiritual, mental/intellectual, physical and social/being development? It is okay if initially your goals do not overlap with these areas, you want to add goals that do. Then reflect on your goals, which of your goals are urgent v. important? What needs to be accomplished in the next month or 3 months. Which are longer range goals 6 months to a year? 

 

After you have reflected on the above questions, watch the videos below to help build on your reflection process. We will later use the strategies embedded in these videos to prepare a slide presentation (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Prezi, etc) to display your findings. You are encouraged to share these in your next coaching session for preliminary feedback.

 

At this point, you may be feeling a little overwhelmed or intimidated by drafting your potential statement. Or maybe you aren’t but you find yourself very busy and bogged down by other demands in other areas of your life, or maybe it's both or neither. Either way a useful skill to develop when realizing your potential is time management and task prioritization. These skills are key to taking action.