Are you living up to your true potential or finding excuses?

Are you living your true potential or trying to cover it up with the logic that your mind offers you? It is normal for many people to say “I have a good job; it offers me flexibility and paid vacation”. I ask, is that enough? Is having paid vacation and freedom to come to work within 15 or 20 minutes around 9am worth sacrificing your potential to be better than your current state?

What is that keeps us grounded at our current job that we hardly leap for something better? Of course I’m not saying don’t be thankful to what we have and start to be greedy. However, unless we fully understand what keeps us grounded at our current job, we will not understand how to leap forward for something that might be waiting for us our entire life.

By now, you might be telling yourself this is a boring article and you got a good job that pays the bills. Well, I believe that is not fair to you and your family if all you do is work to pay the bills and nothing else. I don’t care how much time you have for happy hours or weekend fun, but you spend at least 40 hours a week, 160 hours a month, and about 2080 hours a year doing just OK work because it pays the bills. Is that worth your 2080 hours a year?

Ask yourself few questions and then decide what you should do next.

1. What is the motivation that keeps you working?
2. Can you perform better if your work is more challenging?
3. Can you personally and professionally grow even more if you start working for someone else, or start working for yourself?
4. If you think about all of the new knowledge you gained within last six months, does it justify your reason to stay at current job?
5. Are you currently working towards a real life goal other than just worrying about paying your mortgage?

Of course, recent economy keeps us r to be thankful for our current job because we know many who have lost their jobs. However, is that preventing us from taking a risk and going for something that is close to our full potential and could lead us to achieve much more than we have ever dreamed?

This is just a thought but see where it leads you.