Potential Isn't Enough

How many times have you seen potential not pan out? That's the theme of this mini podcast.

 Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

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Transcript

Potential Isn’t Enough

Watching the NFL draft last night, I was struck with this idea: the difference of having potential and doing something with it.

Potential? Can be an empty promise.

It’s like holding a seed in your hand and calling it a garden. Without soil, without action, without something to grow into – that seed is just . . . possibility going nowhere.

So here’s a question.

Are you as smart as someone who’s way more successful than you?

Most people would honestly say, “Yeah . . . probably.”

But that’s not the right question.

A more revealing one is: Are you as resourceful as they are?

That’s when things usually become clear. Because the answer there is almost always “No.”

So what resources are they using that you’re not?

For me, the first place to look is internal.

We all have access to creativity, intuition, problem-solving . . . but we block it. Constantly. With nonstop thinking.

And here’s the rub – the more you stay in your head, the further you get from the very resources you’re trying to access.

It’s like trying to plant seeds in dry, cracked ground and wondering why nothing grows.

If you want something to actually grow, you’ve got to get out of that barren mental loop and into a place where things can take root.

Let me ask you this . . .

How much of your thinking is about how successful you should be . . . versus what you’ve actually done?

Because those are two very different things.

Thinking compares. Doing produces.

Thinking leans on things like IQ – which, let’s be honest, is mostly an accident of birth.

But accomplishment? That tells a different story.

That tells me how often you’ve taken your ideas . . . and actually put your hands in the dirt.

That’s where growth happens.So if you really want your potential to mean something, you’ve got to move past just knowing what you know.

You’ve got to step out of your head and into the field where ideas get planted, tested, adjusted – grown.

Because at the end of the day . . .

What you do with your potential will always matter more than the fact that you have it.

I wonder how soon you'll pick up that hoe and plant your potential.

All the best,

John