Each person who is born is born with the potential to be great. Potential is what we all have and it is manifested by living with purpose. Below is a short but powerful article by Myles Monroe on his view on Potential. It goes as follows;
Your potential was not given for you to deposit in the grave. You must understand the tremendous potential you possess and commit yourself to maximizing it in your short time you have on earth. What is potential, anyway? It is a tragedy to know that with over five billion people on this planet today, only a minute percentage will experience a significant fraction of their true potential. Perhaps you are a candidate for contributing to the wealth of the graves in the cemetery.
Potential is dormant ability, reserved power, untapped strength, unused success, hidden talents, capped capability.
All you can be but have not yet become. All you can do but have not yet done. How far you can reach but have not yet reached. What you can accomplish but have not yet accomplished. Potential is unexposed ability and latent power. It is also important that you never let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life that never realized its full potential. You must decide today not to rob the world of the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you. Potential never has a retirement plan.
To simplify this concept let us look at one of the most powerful elements in nature, the seed. If I held a seed in my hand and asked you, “What do i have in my hand?” What would you say? Perhaps you would answer what seems to be the obvious, a seed. However, if you understand the nature of a seed, your answer would be fact but not truth.
The truth is I hold a forest in my hand. Why? Because in every seed there is a tree, and in every tree there is fruit or flowers with seeds in them. And these seeds also have trees that have fruit that have seeds, that have trees that have fruit that have seeds, etc. In essence, what you see is not all there is. That is potential. Not what is, but what could be.
God created everything with potential, including you. He placed the seed of each thing within itself (Genesis 1:12), and planted within each person or thing He created the ability to be much more than it is at any one moment. Thus, everything in life has potential. Your seed is with in you, cultivate a place for it, plant as much as you can and grow. Your potential is manifest each time you explore things outside your comfort zone.
By Myles Monroe written in 2012
I want to live in my purpose, my Lord be my guide