Reaching Your God-Given Potential 

I am writing a series of articles about achieving your God-given potential. There is much to explore when you choose to fully utilize the gifts you have been given in life.

This article is the first in a series of articles about the topics we discuss in our programs year after year, as they relate to believing in and striving to reach your God-given potential.

What Does It Mean To Reach Your God-given Potential?

Achieving your God-given potential means knowing you gave your all with the gifts God has provided.

When you do your best, you inspire others to excel through your example.

One of the most inspiring examples of motivating others to achieve breakthroughs is the story of the first person to run a sub-four-minute mile.

After Roger Bannister finally broke the sub-four-minute mile barrier after decades of many men trying, over 300 other runners achieved the feat within ten years of Bannister's historic run.

If you want to learn more about the significance of breaking barriers, you can read an article titled Become The First-Ever Barrier Breaker.

Inspiring others to do their best is wonderfully contagious and stems from doing your very best. Reaching your God-given potential involves more than just yourself.

A natural outcome of reaching your God-given potential by doing your best is inspiring others through your actions to do the same.

Meaningful and long-term success is built on doing your best by giving it you're all while helping others do the same along your journey.

One of the greatest coaches of all time, John Wooden, said, " Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made an effort to become the best you are capable of becoming."

Wooden consistently emphasized to everyone the importance of doing their best to benefit others. His goal was to teach individuals to perform at their highest level, which ultimately helped the entire team succeed.

Wooden was one of the best coaches of all time in any sport, not only for the championships he won but, more importantly, for the life lessons he taught his players. 

As a new coach, I read everything I could about John Wooden, even though he coached a different sport than I did. Wooden was a fantastic coach in his sport, but even more impressive was how he used sport to teach mission-critical life lessons. 

You can learn more about John Wooden here.

Reaching your full potential has a limited lifespan and is fleeting as we age. As we age, we tend to become slower.                          

However, the life lessons learned through running in youth are anything but fleeting. These lessons can last a lifetime when learned well.

The first lesson to learn is to believe in and pursue your God-given potential with all you've. Starting your journey with a belief in the gifts God has given you is the foundation for the rest of your trip.

In my next article, I'll discuss why some people fail to reach their God-given potential and how coaches and others can help those around them achieve their best.

Blessings,

Coach Weber

Philippians 4:13

Wooden's definition of success is still one of the best I've seen in decades of coaching.