Personal Development

Confidence or Blindness

Confidence is understanding your skills and strengths. Confidence is understanding your potential and how far you can push yourself to achieve your goals. Confidence is not being blind to your mistakes; it is not being blind to the situation at hand; it is not be blind to the harm you cause yourself or others; it is not ignoring self knowledge; it is not refusing to admit your mistakes; confidence is not blindness.

Confidence is understanding where you are in your life with your skills and strengths and considering those in your short term goals, pushing yourself always, but never being blind. Confidence gives the ability to push on when things look like you may not succeed. Confidence does not boast. Confidence performs.

Blindness boasts of what it cannot deliver. Blindness refuses to admit its mistakes and failing, thus missing the opportunities to grow and learn. Blindness considers its own mistakes and decides someone else’s failure caused its own failure.

Do you own your own failure, or do you always find a way to blame someone else? If you always blame someone else you may not be able to recognize this problem in yourself, so this advice may fall on deaf ears. Do not be blind to your own mistakes; they are experiences that you can learn from.

Confidence is good; it is fuel for our successes; it pushes us; it gives us hope in the face of defeat. Confidence is important.

Blindness is not confidence; it holds us back; it hinders our growth; it clouds our vision; it robs us of learning; Blindness must be cured.

I urge everyone to have confidence and implore them to recognize their blindness.

Are you confident or blind? To be successful you need confidence. To mimic success for a time being blind will work, but only so long.

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Author: Jeff Harris
Copyright © 2010

Push Yourself to Potential

Push Yourself

It is not those who limit themselves that accomplish the most in life. Push yourself. Set your ultimate goals beyond what seem possible. How many people thought it would be impossible to fly to the moon? Yet, some people decided it was not impossible.

Great achievements, such as landing on the moon, were not accomplished with just one goal of the moon. They were built upon many smaller goals that were tough, but so near. These intermediate goals were stepping stones to the greater goal. Some of these goals may not have been designed for reaching the moon, but time proved them be along the path.

Set your own goals beyond what is normal. In doing so they will open up opportunities that you currently may not see. My life purpose has been changed and shaped by the events and accomplishments of my life. What I hoped for 20 years ago is far less than what I plan for today. My vision is greater than it has ever been and my opportunities for reaching those final goals is far greater. This is not because I have driven my whole life for that single final goal, but because I have never allowed circumstances and the world to shape my goals, and ultimately each accomplishment has opened new possibilities to me, and stretched my personal development plan.

Identify the unlimited limits of your Potential

The identification of potential is often about not underestimating your potential. Never believe that you have achieved your potential, and always assume that your perceived potential is merely a shallow glimpse into deep pool. Your potential is always moving away from you and this is a good thing. Your current potential is always a step further away than you can see. The trick is never feeling as though your potential has been achieved. You can always improve your strengths and talents.

How many people fail to progress, or live their lives far beneath that they are capable of, because they have no hope for greater potential? Everyone of these people is living a lie. That lie is that they cannot do more, be more, accomplish more, or improve themselves. Do not hold yourself back.

While it is good to understand your limitations and your weakness, these are things to be managed and accounted for in your plan, they are not reasons to lose hope and give up. In fact your weakness may someday be your greatest asset. I still remember being told I could never write for a living, and yet writing is a main source of my life, my career, and my income.

Potential is ever moving away from you and this is good

So, identify your potential and know that that potential is a temporary potential. In time that potential will grow. Reassess yourself and your goals. Never assume that potential gained is completed. Your potential is merely your ability to measure what you know today. Tomorrow your potential shall be greater. Just don’t let life distract you too much.

Thankfully, our potential as humans is an ever growing and shaping vision of what we can become. Do not listen to those who speak of limiting your potential. I promise you this they are wrong.

If you are held down by someone else’s assessment of your potential, send me an e-mail at unselfishhelp@live.com. I truly believe that a short conversation will give you new hope and uncover greater potential.

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Copyright © 2010

Renew Your Identity

In order to move forward in life, you have to properly categorize the past. We have all made mistakes. We have all been wronged. Some of us have been wronged very badly. We have been hurt physically, emotionally, and mentally. The pain that we may have can be intense. Regardless, and not to be insensitive, we must put the past to use in a positive way or discard it if we are to move forward. We want to achieve all that we can. We want to become the best person possible in order to achieve our dreams and reach that life purpose. The bottom line is, either your past can be an asset or a milestone tied about your neck dragging you down. Renewing your identity is part of a personal development plan.

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Motivation and Hot Showers

It occurred to me as I contemplated getting out of the shower that there are two kinds of long-shower-takers. You know the people I am talking about, perhaps you are one of those like me. Long-shower-takers are the people who stay in the shower for 30 minutes, or longer, and use up all of the hot water. My wife hates that! Well, I hate other long-shower-takers too. My oldest son is a long-shower-taker and I was glad when he moved out. But anyway, there are two types of long-shower-takers: A) Love the Hot Water long-shower-takers B) Hate the Cold House long-shower-takers

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