How to Know Your Potential

 

(source: tribuna.md)

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.