Everyone has heard of reaching for their potential at some point in their life. As members of a leadership team, you have the ability to not only reach your potential, but also help others to reach their own potential in life. By coaching yourself and others around you, you can reach greater results and help others to work at the best of their ability.

The value of coaching cannot be underrated. As a part of leadership on any team, it is your duty to work on coaching those around you. Other senior members of your organization will be there to provide coaching and extra assistance if you need help. Although there is not one simple way to quantify potential, it can be achieved by developing an open mind and seeking out new perspectives in life.

Only individuals who try have the possibility of success. Living in constant fear of failure makes it impossible to try at a task that you can actually succeed in. The worst that can happen is that you learn from your mistakes before you try again. Thomas Edison failed at creating a working light bulb 1,000 times before he made a working model. When asked about it, he did not say that he failed. He believed the light bulb was just a task with a 1,000 different steps. Edison had to try and learn from each of these “steps” before he made a working model.

As you work to learn the value of seeking out your potential, remember to always ask for what you want and help those around you to succeed. If you cannot ask for help or ask for the things you need to succeed, success will continuously elude you. Likewise, once you have reached your potential, try and help others out along their way. In the end, you may learn more by helping those around you than by your own efforts.

As member of a non work related entity such as marriage, church, community, friendship, you want explore leadership opportunities as well, coaching will help you to find yourself at more at peace and to accept challenges, to transform those into opportunities. Meanwhile it will help those around you. As you learn the value of seeking your own potential in life, help out others around you to reach the same level of success.

 

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