FORGET ABOUT YOUR POTENTIAL...
and start focusing on your capacity.
I know this could be a semantic issue, but I am more interested in reaching my capacity than I am in reaching my potential. I'm applying these ideas to my faith in and service to God. Here's how I define the two words. Potential is that which I could do or achieve if the conditions were right. Potential is not necessarily the best I could do at the moment, but the best I could do, if I stretched myself, and sought to move to a new level. Whereas capacity, is what I can do right now. Given my current conditions, what I can achieve right now is my capacity. Therefore to reach my potential, I'd have to increase my capacity.
I believe that many people think about a person's potential. "If given the opportunity, he could do some amazing things." -- But what if he isn't given this opportunity, what's the best he could do then? Too often we look to what someone else, or even ourselves could do if things were just a little bit different. It becomes an excuse for not doing something excellent. I think we would be better off to start thinking about how we can reach our capacity right now, today. Then when opportunities arise allowing us to move closer to our potential (our capacity has been increased) we are ready to move forward, and we are not excuse makers.
So don't think about if things were different. Given your current situation, are you reaching your full capacity? Is there more you can do before you hit your ceiling? Philippians 3:16 says, "Only let us live up to what we have already attained." Let us reach our capacity now, and anxiously await the change that will increase it.
I know this could be a semantic issue, but I am more interested in reaching my capacity than I am in reaching my potential. I'm applying these ideas to my faith in and service to God. Here's how I define the two words. Potential is that which I could do or achieve if the conditions were right. Potential is not necessarily the best I could do at the moment, but the best I could do, if I stretched myself, and sought to move to a new level. Whereas capacity, is what I can do right now. Given my current conditions, what I can achieve right now is my capacity. Therefore to reach my potential, I'd have to increase my capacity.
I believe that many people think about a person's potential. "If given the opportunity, he could do some amazing things." -- But what if he isn't given this opportunity, what's the best he could do then? Too often we look to what someone else, or even ourselves could do if things were just a little bit different. It becomes an excuse for not doing something excellent. I think we would be better off to start thinking about how we can reach our capacity right now, today. Then when opportunities arise allowing us to move closer to our potential (our capacity has been increased) we are ready to move forward, and we are not excuse makers.
So don't think about if things were different. Given your current situation, are you reaching your full capacity? Is there more you can do before you hit your ceiling? Philippians 3:16 says, "Only let us live up to what we have already attained." Let us reach our capacity now, and anxiously await the change that will increase it.
posted by Tony at
10:55 AM
1 Comments:
I have an unbelievable capacity to find fault with others. I am amazing when it comes to seeing the negative in any situation. It is a marvel how quickly I can abandon my faith in a less than perfect situation.
Yet, every day, God points these issues out to me, shows me that my greatest capacity is pride, and helps me to chip away at the container of SELF, that I might truely, some day, die to SELF and reduce these capacities to zero.
In the meantime, as I lower the wall of pride, God uses those bricks to build a much holier contianer, and is helping me fill it with love.
Thank you, Tony, for being one of those who shows me those bricks whose time it is to be removed, and who God uses to design the new vessel.
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cliffmeister2000, at 7:39 AM
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