How to Know Your Potential

 

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Have you, teenagers, know exactly and with certainty the type of potential that exists in you? One of the various types of potential you must have or even two of them are in you. To achieve achievement, of course we must know or know the potential we have.

Efforts to recognize or know potential cannot be done carelessly. We cannot judge our potential based on personal taste. For example, just because you love music, you conclude that your potential lies in the music field. Or, just because a lot of your friends enjoy a certain type of sport, you force yourself to love it and make sure that your potential lies in that sport. Such a step is not the right way to assess and know one's potential.

The first thing to do to know one's potential is of course instill a strong and serious desire to know one's own potential. After that, we must try to begin to know our potential honestly, objectively and realistically. We must see and judge for what it is then be brave and willing to accept it as it is too.

Those are the things that must be prioritized in knowing one's potential. The detailed steps in knowing the potential itself can be done in various ways. Here are some of them.

•    During a certain time, do a lot of activities. Activities to choose from include sports, arts, writing (composing), and handicrafts. In choosing the activities to be carried out, don't just stick to the activities you like.

•    Of the activities carried out, feel the activity that is experiencing the fastest development and progress. For this purpose, a written list of activities that have been carried out and progress and progress can be made can be made.

•    Ask other people about the activities that are the most or more prominent of the activities carried out. That is, according to other people's judgments, what activities appear to represent the most impressive abilities of the activities we do. Other people consulted were primarily friends with activities, best friends, teachers, parents, and siblings.

•    Activities that are more rapidly developing and progressing and according to the judgment of others show impressive abilities the possibility of being our potential. Continue the activity while continuing to feel the progress and progress made and ask for other people's opinions, while other activities that do not show impressive progress can be abandoned immediately.

These four efforts are only alternatives that we can do. We can still complete the four of them with several other steps. Additional steps that can be taken are as follows:

•    identify yourself by making a list of questions, such as what makes us happy, what we want in life, what our strengths and strengths are, and answer these questions honestly and objectively;

•    determine life goals –– short term and long term –– realistically, that is, according to the abilities and circumstances at hand;

•    identify the motivation to live by feeling the things that make us most or more motivated to do certain activities;

•    eliminating the habit of negative thinking by not throwing mistakes and weaknesses at other parties, but instead used as material for evaluation and self-improvement;

•    do not regret and judge yourself for a long time if you make a mistake or experience a failure, but make both (mistakes or failures) as an encouragement.

Barriers to Potential Development

 

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Developing the potential for achievement is not an easy and simple endeavor. In practice, there will be many obstacles or obstacles. The higher the achievement that you want to achieve, the bigger the obstacles you usually face. Overcoming obstacles will be another endeavor that must be made in the overall pursuit of achievement.

Barriers to potential development will be internal and external. Internal barriers are obstacles that arise from within oneself, while external obstacles arise from the surrounding environment. These two obstacles have different forms and properties.

1.  Obstacles from Yourself

Have you ever felt or often feel lazy, afraid, anxious, indecisive, or inferior when you are about to do something? Will we forever feel ambitious, strong, and confident when we start activities? Can we always consistently feel optimistic that we will be able and successful in making things happen?

It seems that almost no one is forever able to be optimistic when they want to start a job or activity. Feeling uncertain or worried about doing something is a natural and human condition. All humans have experienced it because all humans basically have weaknesses.

However, that is what is called an obstacle that arises from yourself. Such obstacles come from within your own feelings and often arise for no apparent reason. Feelings of reluctance, anxiety, insecurity, pessimism, and the like may arise due to tough competition, absence of competent companions, difficult challenges faced, and so on.

However, these negative feelings are actually more of a false shadow because before we jump directly into the competition, we will never know the real situation. Obstacles like that often appear unwanted. This obstacle should not be allowed to keep coming to interfere, but must be overcome (removed) if we want high achievement.

Another form of obstacle that can arise from within yourself is the feeling of seeing one's own abilities that are too high. The ability of oneself is judged so big and high that what will be faced will seem easy to conquer. This will lead to excessive optimism, arrogant attitude (arrogant or arrogant), as well as underestimating other people and the challenges that will be faced. Feelings like this are clearly an obstacle that must be removed because they will not be able to support the realization of achievement.

Excessive optimism and high regard and value one's ability above others usually occurs in someone who has had certain achievements. Ever accomplishing a certain feat by beating competitors causes a feeling of superiority to emerge as if no one else can match it. Moreover, if the achievement can be achieved several times at once, the feeling of superiority can emerge even stronger –– even though, it could be that there are many other people whose abilities and achievements are higher than the competition in question.

2.  Environmental Barriers

 Is the life around us always in line with our wishes? Could it be that life around the house always benefits our efforts to achieve something? Is it true that everything in our homes can help us achieve our desires? Is it true that the education that we follow every day can be relied on to provide support for achievement?

The environment, namely the life around us, does not always have a positive influence on achievement. The environment can indeed be a supporter of achievement. However, many cases show that the environment is often the source of obstacles. Television, for example, every day tempts us to watch it constantly so that it can make us neglect to study and practice. The hustle and bustle of life around the house and school also often makes it difficult for us to focus and concentrate. In fact, sometimes the education in schools that we usually attend is not in accordance with the efforts to foster a spirit of achievement.

Homes, schools and villages sometimes present unexpected obstacles. Sometimes the attitude of friends, teachers, neighbors, even parents and siblings is not as expected. For example, girls from certain indigenous communities do not receive the proper support from their families to achieve certain achievements - in the fields of education, arts, sports, and so on - just because customary traditions consider women more deserving of being and doing activities in the kitchen.

All of these are obstacles that come from the environment. Environmental barriers seem to always be there. The obstacles from the environment are very difficult to get rid of completely because they involve so many factors that are outside ourselves. Therefore, we are required to be smart in dealing with it. Even if it is very difficult to get rid of altogether, the obstacles from the environment can be neutralized if we are good at dealing with them. The key is that we must be firm in our stand and uphold our principles so that we are not easily influenced by circumstances.

In addition, we also have to be good at making sure that the achievements we will achieve will not harm the order and values ​​of life that apply around our lives. On the contrary, this achievement will in fact strengthen the intended order and values. Achievement in any field, as long as it is positive (not contrary to norms), essentially will not interfere with the order and values ​​of life, but will also strengthen it and elevate the status and make the local community proud.

(Source: Sadah Siti, http://caraelok.blogspot.com/search/label/Pengembangan%20P potential)

Utilizing Potential

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Potential is often invisible and not felt so that it seems as if it is a mystery: there is an "object", but it is not tangible or only vague. In other words, potential is still a hidden power or force whose existence has not yet emerged and provides optimal benefits. To make the potential optimal and efficient, two things are needed, namely ambition and honing efforts.

1.  The Need for Ambition

Ambition is a strong and strong desire to be able to do something or be something –– do something, for example, break records and conquer mountain peaks; to be something, for example, to be an athlete, an artist, and a director. Ambition will move people to strive to do what is necessary for the fulfillment of desires. If someone has the ambition to become a famous sportsman, then he will try his best to realize this ambition.

With ambition, we will be motivated to do business. On the other hand, without ambition, we are prone to stagnation. Without ambition, we tend to feel satisfied and surrender to what we have got so that we are not motivated to get better, bigger, and higher things. Without having ambition, we will be passive so we may not know our potential or know it, but tend not to care.

Therefore, to know our potential, we need ambition. Ambition will drive us to achieve something; while to achieve something that we will try to explore and know our potential. However, we should not give excessive ambition. Excessive ambition can lead to the emergence of a blind attitude that does not care about ethics, law, and order, so that it will lead us to lawlessness and failure.

2. Sharpening Potential

The potential that every human being has in the beginning is still a silent or passive force. Potential is like raw materials that are piled up in storage and have not been utilized and processed. As passive power, potential requires touch. Without touch, the potential forever will only become a sleeping force and may eventually disappear and be in vain. Perhaps it is true to say that potential is like a sleeping "being" that must be awakened and resurrected.

Potential needs touch to be awakened and useful. That is, the potential needs to be tapped in a way that is honed so that it becomes a skill or skill. In other words, potential must be developed into real or tangible competencies or abilities. By realizing the potential into skills or abilities (real abilities), efforts to achieve achievements become possible.

How to hone potential so that it develops into skills or abilities? The trick is none other than by training it properly. In order to become a skill or skill, potential must be trained in the right method or way. The training to hone potential must also be done diligently, diligently, regularly, tenaciously, discipline, never giving up, not feeling satisfied quickly, optimally, and continuously.

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