41 reaching your potential

Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Change and InnovationLeadership Principles from God’s Word: Change and Innovation

Reaching your Potential

Module 404F

My passion is people and the energy they have

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Passage to memorizeActs 2: 44-47

…Everyday they continued to meet in the temple courts. They broke bread in their

homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying

favour of all the people



What is success?

• 1. Knowing your purpose in life• 2. Growing to your maximun

potential• 3. Sowing seeds that benefit others



Climbing the ladder

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he or she is willing to climb

himself/herself. Andrew Carnegie



Consider a menu

When we consider a menu we not only see the ingredients but the finished dish – we may even experience the pleasure its consumption will give

ourselves and others



There are two kinds of forethought

Looking forward with pleasureLooking forward with

apprehension



Select one problem• Select one problem you are

currently facing. Describe it in one short sentence

• What would it be like if you did not have that problem? Describe the situation in one short sentence



Resilience

The ability to spring back, to recover



Your dreams• What are your dreams for yourself,

children, your family……..• Sometimes , our visions can

frightens us.• Responsibility is not a burden. It is

the ignition which switches on our internal engine



Handle the change process in small steps

• 1. Reflective thinking• 2. Examine carefully• 3. Explore• 4. Try it• 5. Decide• 6. Commitment• 7. Let go of the old



Do you have untapped potential

List the two or three areas in which you are not fully using

your potential or you may have developed at all.



Which are the things you feel threatened at this

stage of your life?

If you knew you had only one year to live which of these things would still

be important to you?



Questions for further reflection

• Write down a big goal you have already achieved

• List your ambitions• List some of your limitations• What are your greatest irritants?



Collapsing in a year!

If your organisation was going to collapse in a year what would you

do now to try to avoid that happening?



Lasting change

All real and lasting change starts on the inside, in our

minds, and works its way out into reality



Current versus future reality

• Our idea of how things should look• We concentrate too much on

current reality• Current reality is always changing• The clearer our current reality and

vision, the clearer the gap between them



We are picture-oriented• If our picture of current reality is

brighter and clearer than our picture of the goal we will stick with current reality.

• If current reality is stronger than the goal, we will after a little progress, return to current reality, and we will give up on the goal



The next time• That’s not like me/you• I am too good for that or you are

too good for that• The next time I intend to do….



Change your spouse, child colleague,…

• Our power to do so is limited because we will working on them from the outside

• Suppose, we changed ourselves, our attitudes towards them, our beliefs about them.

• Would that change them?



Celebrate your successes• Too many of us pass through our

successes too quickly• What we need to do is to revisit

them, privately, and give ourselves credit, quietly, for past achievement



Negative attitude• We are not born with our attitudes;

we acquire them• We acquire them from our own

experience of life and learning and from the people round about us

• Do our attitudes help us go after the goal or do they get in the way?



No Put-downs• For the next twenty-four hours I want

you to play the above game• Eliminate all negative things about

yourselves and others• In their place affirm positively yourself

and the people round about you• If you slip up, do not quit; keep

working on it



The self talk of the pessimist versus

optimistPessimist Optimist

A person with a tendency to look on the bad, dark

side of life, having a hopeless view of things

A person with a tendency to take a bright, hopeful view of things; always

looking on the bright side



Self-talk• Self-talk is simply the conversation

that each of us is carrying on with ourselves all day long.

• It is estimated that about 50 000 thoughts go through our minds each day.

• Every thought about every experience is recorded.



Do you devalue yourself?

When you devalue yourself, you lower your self-image and you self-regulate at that level



Your self talk• Write down how you talk to yourself

when you succeed. • Write down how you talk to yourself

when, ocassionally, you fail.• We need to learn to control our self-

talk to be positive and constructive.



What do you value?• What makes you happy?• What maked you sad?• What do you dream about?



Let it go

Say goodbye to yesterday.Yesterday end last night.



Positive self-image

“ I see myself as…………….



Questions for reflection• What is the self-talk like within

your team/department?• Where is it taking place?• How would you like it to be?• What can you do when you hear

negative talk around you?



Comfort zones

An area of perception and association within which the individual or the

group can function effectively without fear or uneasiness



Comfort zones• Yes but …..• What if…..• Life is a “can’t”• The reason for the above are to be

found in our comfort zones• Do we really want to change



Affirmations• There is a lot of negativity around

us.• The negative self talk of others will

drag us back.• It is essential, therefore, that we

affirm at least twice a day, vividly , with emotion.



Inspiration…

Simply means breathing goodness into ….



See yourself as a tree• 1.What kind of tree are you?• 2. Are you deciduous or not?• 3. Do you have fruit or flowers or

both?• 4. What are your branches and

leaves like?• 5. Do you have to be pruned?



See yourself as a tree• 6.Have you been pruned already?• 7. What kind of root system do you

have?• 8. How often do you need water,

sun and fertilser?• 9. Do you have birds nesting in

yoour branches?



See yourself as a tree• 10. Do you have insects in your

bark, which are destroying you?• 11. Are your leaves, fruit or flowers

poisonous?• 12.Do you have thorns?• 13.What is your function? Do you

provide shade or are you a fruit tree



Living a puposeful life•1. Who am I?•2. Why do I exist?•3. Where am I going?



Happiness Levels

Immediate gratification or pleasure

Obsession with achievementDoing good for others

Looking for ultimate being, truth, goodness, unity, beauty, love

The four levels of happiness



The function of goal setting

Viktor Frankl, in his book “ Man’s Search for Meaning”, about his life in the

concentration camps showed that people with goals had a better chance of survival that those who were guided only by the

routines of the camp.



Goal setting0: No goals as yet 1-2: Goals set, but no progress is being made 3-4: Goal set, and progress is already being made in a half-hearted way 5-6-7: Goal set, and progress towards the goal is being made in a satisfactory way. 8-9: Beginning to see the goal accomplished; close to achieving the goal 10: Goal accomplished



Goal setting• Personal • Marriage• Family• Health physical• Mental health• Social• Vocation/job

• Education• Community

service• Retirement• Recreation/leisure

time• Spiritual



We need to be REAL to be Successful - R E A L

• R - Relationships - Have Good relationships with people.

• E - Equipping Others - Must train; coach & develop others.

• A - Attitude - Have a positive Attitude - You choose your attitude.

• L - Leadership - Be a Good Leader - You cannot go where you have not traveled. John C Maxwell



Isaiah 51:10

• It was You Lord, who dried up the sea and made a path through the water, so that those You were saving could cross.

- God can do the impossible.- He can make a way in an impossible situation.



Isaiah 51:10

• He parted a sea to save a nation. He can make a way through your situation and save you.

PRAYER: Lord, I trust and believe that YOU will make a way for me. Bring me out on the other side, I pray. Amen.



Prayer Focus• Father, I ask you to give me a

complete understanding of what you want to do in my life, and I ask you to make me wise with spiritual wisdom.

• I roll my works upon You, and You make my thoughts agreeable to your will and so my plans are established and succeed.

• I have the mind of Christ and hold the thoughts, feelings and purposes of His heart. Amen



But as for me and my household, WE WILL SERVE THE LORD. Joshua 24:15.

Our choices influence our lives. This influence extends to those around us. Choosing to serve the Lord is a vital choice. As for you, what will your choice be?



But as for me and my household, WE WILL SERVE THE LORD. Joshua 24:15.

DECLARATION: As for me, I choose to serve the Lord! No matter what tomorrow brings or what it has in store, I will serve the Lord.

PRAYER: Lord, I dedicate my life to You afresh. As I make this choice I pray that You will use me to touch the lives of others. Amen.



Take what I have given you and change the world!


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