ACTIVATING YOUR INNATE POTENTIALITIES

  Death in its simplest form is the termination of potentials.   

                                                                    -Myles Munroe

I cry when I see the son of a tailor wearing rag. I shed tears the day I watched the true life of show of a slave riding on the horse meant for the son. Many youths wander the streets while their potentials go down the drain. The most terrible suicide is not jumping down from a skyscraper, but dying with an inborn gift, and the only bank that operates a fixed deposit a/c of potentials is ‘grave’.

Myles Munroe defined potential as unexposed ability, reserved power, untapped strength, capped capabilities, unused success, dormant gifts, hidden talents, latent power. Potential is innate, then we say it is inborn, within. To a farmer, it is that unused seed. A plant cannot exist without its seed planted, even on a good soil. Potential is what you are that the world does not know. It is what you have that goes beyond their imagination when shown. If Nigeria can generate megawatts of electricity in millions, and we can only boast of thousands of megawatts, she failed definitely in the school of potential activation.

At times, we look at ourselves as someone emptied of power (potentials). I could remember vividly someone told his friend that you people are just meant to be there (top).In his mind, he created classes. The class of those who can, and the class of those who cannot and can never. It is not a matter of saying yes we can thousand times, but doing the can if you believe you can. By latent is meant capable of being but not yet in existence. Do not just exist, but make sense. Some people will pass through a place and write their names in the sand of time, while some will pass silently. Why not make sense out of every thing you do each day.

One of the best example we can used is the fertilized human egg (zygote). It is a single cell that has the ability to form every part of the human body. It can form a giant, and likewise a dwarf. Its potentialities is unlimited. Limitation, of course only exists in our mind. It is in our mind that we build a dream, and also destroy it. Napoleon Hill once postulated that whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. In often imagine why some people who are born to take up their places in this World are still begging for spaces. Is this place to small to contain your manifestation? Step into the sky and soar because the sky is not even your limit. Break through your barriers!

Production possibility curve in Economics shows the maximum possible combination of two goods that can be produced when resources (potentials) are fully and efficiently utilized. Success in life is maximized at that point where you have efficiently and fully utilize the resources God has deposited in you. The mind of an undergraduate has been so well conditioned to passing exams. He strives tooth and nails to getting good grades in all his courses. That’s fine! The crux of the credo is that he may not dedicate that much time to bringing the best out of himself if he is not a student at all. This applies to a government worker, and all those who work for money.

10 tips to discovering and activating that unused energy in you.

· Discover your strength. Locate your oil field. A man that is not located will be automatically dislocated. What is that thing that you can do that give you a sense of fulfillment?

· Dig it out! Be a potential prospector. Mr. X cultivated an inherited land for fifty years, and later sold it to Mr. Y for a dime as a result of poor yield. Mr. Y later discovered that underneath lies a stream of crude oil. He hit a jackpot by exploring, and now  a billionaire

· Be diligence. If a lazy man hits a jackpot, he looses everything in a casino game. No wonder Proverbs 22:29 emphasizes that ‘see a man who is diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

· Be tenacious. Possess a strong will, and be passionate about your dreams.

· Procrastination is the thief of potentials. Avoid it!

· Enroll in the school of time management. A man who sleeps, and dies at the age of 75has spent 25 years of his life on the bed. Run away from time wasters. Time wasters are potential wasters.

· Conceiving + believing= f(achieving). Aristotle never imagined a man in the moon. It was conceived, believe and then, achieved.

· Set goals and have a plan. A man who set goals get golds on his way. Have a daily, weekly, monthly plan of how to achieve those goals.

· Pray your way into purpose. The place of prayer cannot be under estimated when talking about maximum possible activation of innate potentialities. Isaac Newton invented telescopes, Hear him: “I can take my telescopes, and look millions and millions of miles into space, but I can lay it aside and go into my room, shut the door, get down on my knees, and get closer to God than I can, assisted by all the telescopes and material agencies on earth”. Pray!

· Lend a hand. It is in helping others that you discover more about the real you. Brighten that corner where you are. See a need and meet it.

· I leave you with the words of Martin Luther King Jr.

     "If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep even as Michelangelo paints, as Beethoven composed music, as Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should do it so well that even men and angel will pause, and say, Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well”.