Julio Garreaud The Human Architect

I consider myself an athlete, I like to compete in bicycling and running. The most common comment I hear from fellow bikers and runners is, “when will I reach my potential?”

I can only speak for myself, but that expectation placed on me as an athlete and businessman the need to be focused but it also created fear, concern and anxiety because I never wanted to consider myself as one of those athletes that didn’t reach their potential. I never would accept being a disappointment. After all what else do I have to do with my career than reach my potential. Reaching my potential became my job, a life style, my number one job in life is to reach my potential at work, sports, and at home.

Shouldn’t we all be concentrating in reaching our potential? You might not understand this but you actually have a lot of people watching you right now, your boss, employees, spouse and children are all watching you. In fact, they all have an opinion on how well you are doing so far.

How high have you set the bar in your life? Do you put pressure on yourself to reach your potential? I invite you to adopt the mind set that you expect others to maintain, reaching your potential is your job, it should drive you every morning when you rise and it should consume you all day until you fall asleep. Are you the best employee you can be? Are you the best business owner you can be? Are you the best spouse you can be? Are you the best parent you can be? You are the judge and jury, don’t just sit there….get back to work.