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1. Change doesn’t always have to be drastic to be effective.
2. Change is necessary for you to reach your capacity.
If you don’t know what’s limiting you, how will you remove it?
All lasting growth requires awareness. Unfortunately, if you lack awareness, then you don’t know that you are unaware. It’s a blind spot. You don’t know what you don’t know,
Self-awareness is a powerful skill. It enables you to see yourself clearly. It informs your decisions and helps you to weigh opportunities. It allows you to test your limits. It empowers you to understand other people. It makes partnership with others stronger. It allows you to maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses. It opens the door to greater capacity.
It takes a desire to make self-awareness discoveries. It takes discipline to look at yourself and reflect on your experiences. It takes maturity to ask others to help you with your blind spots. Becoming self-aware also requires help from other people who can see you more clearly than you can see yourself.
Excellence comes from focusing on your strengths. Whatever you do well, try to do better. That’s your greatest pathway forward to increased capacity.
Energy Capacity—Your Ability to Push On Physically Emotional Capacity—Your Ability to Manage Your Emotions Thinking Capacity—Your Ability to Think Effectively People Capacity—Your Ability to Build Relationships Creative Capacity—Your Ability to See Options and Find Answers Production Capacity—Your Ability to Accomplish Results Leadership Capacity—Your Ability to Lift and Lead Others
Responsibility Capacity—Your Choice to Take Charge of Your Life Character Capacity—Your Choices Based on Good Values Abundance Capacity—Your Choice to Believe There Is More than Enough Discipline Capacity—Your Choice to Focus Now and Follow Through Intentionality Capacity—Your Choice to Deliberately Pursue Significance Attitude Capacity—Your Choice to Be Positive Regardless of Circumstances Risk Capacity—Your Choice to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone Spiritual Capacity—Your Choice to Strengthen Your Faith Growth Capacity—Your Choice to Focus on How Far You Can Go Partnership Capacity—Your Choice
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Part of the process of fulfilling your purpose is becoming aware of the things you can’t change that limit you, so that you can direct your attention toward the things you can maximize to increase your capacity.
We expose ourselves to new ideas and successful people, and the caps begin to loosen. And when they get loose enough, then they come off.
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I’m not trying to convince you to act confident without knowing what to do. You can’t be hyped to success. But you can be helped to success. You can be taught how to grow. You can be shown how to win inside victories that lead to outside victories. The idea of “if you believe it you can achieve it” doesn’t last. Contrast that with “if you achieve it you can believe it.” That does last, and it brings genuine confidence.
After awareness, the second step to changing our capacity is to recognize that we have many capacities.
Energy Capacity—Your Ability to Push On Physically Emotional Capacity—Your Ability to Manage Your Emotions Thinking Capacity—Your Ability to Think Effectively People Capacity—Your Ability to Build Relationships Creative Capacity—Your Ability to See Options and Find Answers Production Capacity—Your Ability to Accomplish Results Leadership Capacity—Your Ability to Lift and Lead Others
“Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance.”
The ultimate measure of our lives is not how much time we spend on the planet, but rather how much energy we invest in the time that we have.
The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. It is our most precious resource.
Requirement—What I have to do Return—What I do well Reward—What I love to do
• Meaning: Doing something that benefits another person
• Interactions: Creating far more positive than negative moments
• Energy: Making choices that improve your mental an...
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That’s my list of things that charge me up. What’s on yours? If you don’t know, then take some time to figure it out. That way you can be intentional about becoming fully charged.
Why spend your life trying to be what you’re not, instead of trying to be more of who you are naturally? Why not figure out what your natural strengths are and develop those for the benefit of yourself and others?
For years I have been intentional about having energy pluses close to me so that I can quickly access them when I need an energy shot. For example, when I’m getting ready to speak and I want a shot of mental energy, I look at my iPhone and read a couple of inspirational quotes. When I need energy to keep writing, I look at the bookshelf in my office that holds the books that have changed my life.
Look at these categories and see if any of them might be possible energy sources for you: Music—The songs that lift you Thoughts—The ideas that speak to you Experiences—The activities that rejuvenate you Friends—The people who encourage you Recreation—The fun events that invigorate you Soul—The spiritual exercises that strengthen you Hopes—The dreams that inspire you
Home—The family members who care for you Giftedness—The talents that activate you Memories—The recollections that make you smile Books—The messages that change you
It’s vital to increase your energy as much as possible. It’s also crucial to use the energy you have wisely. Use it when you need it, and conserve it when you don’t. And know the difference between the two.
Do you give yourself space in your schedule for the unexpected, and to recover psychologically and emotionally?
Jean Hersey writes, “It’s extremely important not to have one’s life all blocked out, not to have the days and weeks totally organized.
