Welcome back to Life Compass, where we’re talking about how to reach your full potential in life.  After you take a good look at yourself (step 1) and clarify your purpose in life (step 2), the next step is to create a personal development plan to help you maximize who you are in order to accomplish what you’re called to do.

Your personal development plan will synthesize and build upon all the work you’ve already done in the first two steps.  In addition, it will help you evaluate your current reality in the basic areas of life (financial, family, career, health, spiritual, etc.), set well-defined goals, and create a specific plan of action that will propel you to achieve your goals. [Read more...]

Last time, in How to Reach Your Full Potential:  First, Take a Good Look at Yourself, we defined “reaching your full potential” as being the best “you” that you can be.  Being in your sweet spot where you feel the most fulfilled, the most on-purpose, and where you’re making the greatest difference in the world.  Knowing who you are, what you’re good at, and how to maximize that for the greatest good.

I explained that the first step in reaching your full potential is to begin with a process of self-discovery and introspection, where you take a [Read more...]

In my last post, where I asked, “Are You Reaching Your Full Potential?” I promised that I would define what I think it means to reach your full potential, and explain how you can do it.

I define “reaching your full potential” as being the best “you” that you can be. Being in your sweet spot where you feel the most fulfilled, the most on-purpose, and where you’re making the greatest difference in the world.  Knowing who you are, what you’re good at, and how to maximize that for the greatest good.

How do you reach your full potential?

Step One: The journey to reach your full potential begins with a process of self-discovery and introspection, where you take a good, long look at yourself by… [Read more...]

“When Abraham Lincoln was your age, he walked 10 miles to school each day,” said a father to his son who was complaining about walking to school. The son replied, “Yeah, and when Abraham Lincoln was your age, he was President of the United States.”

Do you ever get the sense that you’re not all you could be?  That you’re not reaching your full potential?  Or are you concerned about helping your child or grandchild reach their full potential?

That’s a big passion area for me.  I want to be the kind of person who lives to my full potential and achieves all I am capable of achieving.  And I want to inspire and equip others to do the same.

Today is President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, so I’m going to share some thoughts that relate to his life and how a person reaches their full potential.  This quote from Lincoln is [Read more...]