# “You can become and accomplish anything in life! Your successes, greatness, and potential are determined by you alone; and all of the characteristics necessary to achieve your goals and dreams already lie within you. 
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**Our success and potential is not determined by talent or ability, knowledge or money, race or gender, or even circumstance or setting – it is created, developed, and determined from within ourselves.”**

**Matthew V. Toone**

Although I don’t know you, I’m pretty sure of one thing about you right now, you’re not maximising your potential.

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As human beings we all have amazing potential. You may not have discovered or developed yours fully yet, or you may find yourself in a position where you’ve got into a rut and your potential is lying undiscovered.

I could probably take a guess at a few other things about you too:

**You regularly get frustrated with areas of your life.
You suffer periodically with depression, stress or anxiety
Certain challenges scare the life out of you.
You often feel very alone.
There are times when you feel you’re different from other people**
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Join the club. The normal club. You’re much more normal than you think.

Do you want to be one of the 5% who do something about it?
To be able to succeed, you have to tap into your inner potential. Join the minority who actually use their potential and create something spectacular.

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**If you are not happy with how your life is going right now and you want to be able to achieve more for yourself, here are the key ways reach your full potential and achieve the success you have always wanted.**

# Take Responsibility

Take full responsibility for what does or does not happen. One of the great things that come from investing time in your personal growth, is that it helps you to understand that you need to take full responsibility for your life.

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Take full responsibility for the things that happen and the things that do not happen. It’s easy to produce a list of reasons why you are not doing as well as you would like professionally, personally or financially.

# Believe in Yourself

You’re talented and full of potential. But if you’re like the majority, then I expect you struggle to believe it. Most people are afraid to spread their wings because they’re not aware of what they can do.

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You are capable of so much more than you think. You need to start believing in your true potential and you need to start doing something about it. Don’t be afraid to be bold.


**“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be … your playing small does not serve the world.”**

**Marianne Williamson**

We all have our doubts and worries about ourselves.They can either act as strong motivators or can disempower us. Believing in yourself is about being courageous and willing to do something to move yourself forward.

**How can you convince other people to believe in what you can do, if you cannot even convince yourself?**

# This is your chance to shine, so spread your wings and fly like steemjet 

Stop talking yourself out of the things that you could and should be doing. Stop justifying and explaining the life you’re living but don’t really want. Find solutions, instead of finding excuses. Start to tap into your potential. You will be amazed at what you can achieve.

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Focus on changing the things you can, and don’t waste your energy on the things you have no control over. Don’t talk yourself down, finding ‘reasons’ to keep treading water for another ten years.

The majority of us don’t maximise most of what we’ve been born with. We are experts at wasting, not only our time and opportunities, but more importantly, our natural talents and potential. Use and develop what you’ve got rather than looking for shortcuts or waiting for a lucky break.

You need to realise that when you continue to search for external circumstances in order to justify your present situation you will always find them.

# All this does is keep you stuck in a rut for a very long time – YOU need to do something about it!

# Thank you for reading 

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