What is potential? The dictionary defines it as "existing in possibility; capable of development into actuality." It is the latent, untapped, unexplored, at this time unknown, and before now unrealized energy that exists within anyone or anything. Your potential is everything you can become, everything you will achieve, and everything that lies within your future influence that will live on after you are gone. It is everything you are capable of but as of yet hasn't been accomplished. Those people whom you will influence in life will carry on your potential to countless unborn generations long after you. Your potential is unfathomable, and you can't imagine just how far-reaching your influence will be. But it is all inside of you at this very …show more content…
Your unknown future is always your potential, not what you have done in the past, so when you do something new, something you have never done before, you realize potential you never knew you had. It was there all the time. It was there in your possibility, hidden within your essence from the moment you were conceived, even though you had no comprehension of its existence. Once you've experienced it, though, it moves of course into your biography, so you must keep discovering the new experiences that are your potential. In this way your life is moving forward in a positive way, providing your experiences are adding value to you, not detracting from …show more content…
His grandfather could have addressed that handful of wheat the following way: Oh, great harvest! Oh, thousands of acres of wheat! Oh, thousands of great harvests! And it would have been true, because the potential was there to become all that...and so much more. That handful has become trainload after trainload of wheat, going abroad to bless countless people. The potential was in that handful, unrealized, untapped, unknown, latent power, and energy just waiting to spring into visible reality. And that potential is still today going onward, both in the field and in the lives of the myriad of people it has fed. We can choose to call upon our potential whenever we want to. At this moment it is dormant. We know neither its possibilities nor its capabilities. We never need to utilize our potential if we choose not to. But we will never know what was there in possibility if we make that decision. Usually the only times people call on hidden resources of potential is in a time of crises or an emergency. Ordinarily, only when my appetite stimulates it, or some particular need arises in my life, do I call on it. Otherwise I stay in my comfort zone of familiarity and never venture