Every individual possesses unique talents, abilities, and potential. While some people fully embrace and live out these qualities, others only tap into a fraction of what they could achieve. The agent responsible for this difference is the contrast between discovering one’s purpose and committing to its fulfilment at the highest possible degree versus stagnating in mediocrity due to compromising, indecision, past thinking, and lack of vision. The choice between these two paths determines whether a person maximises or minimises their potential.
Dr. Myles Munroe emphasises that discovering the reason for our existence and the assignment that accompanies it serves as a significant key to achieving our potential. Most importantly, we must know our source (God), bearing in mind that fulfilment and value are impossible without Him.
In our pursuit of living and giving our best, the enemies of potential—such as disobedience, sin, fear, discouragement, procrastination, past failures, traditions, and comparison—show up to either abort, limit, terminate, or destroy potential from being unleashed. While disobedience always wastes potential and retards the attainment of goals, comparison eats away at potential, blinding us from who we truly are. Dr. Munroe outlines how one can intelligently overcome these obstacles.
Potential left untapped or uncultivated can never produce its fruits. We may give excuses for any cause or effect, but this does not maximize what we have within. Every potential must be cultivated by destroying ignorance through the pursuit of knowledge, wisdom, and understanding.
While each individual’s obedience to God’s will and purpose for their life is a personal decision, it is never a private one—all we have is meant to bless others. Therefore, potential is not maximized until it produces itself in the next generation.
Maximizing Your Potential – Keys to Dying Empty stands as a call to action. Every great idea within must not be buried or postponed; instead, it must be cultivated and maximized.