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Unleashing the Power of Possibility and Potential - Fulfilling Desires and Achieving Goals

19 July 2023 · By Sameer Kamboj

Two things are essential for fulfilling any desire, whether big or small; or achieving any goal, no matter how major or minor: possibility and potential.

Both are unlimited. The world outside offers enormous possibilities. Our inner ability to convert a possibility into an opportunity and thereafter turn that opportunity into success is our potential.

Each time someone has innovated, it was due to a potential that converted a possibility into a result. All the ingredients for a meal offer a possibility until a chef uses her/his potential. The zeros and ones present only a possibility until a programmer uses his/her potential.

The resources for making an airplane always existed before someone decided to use their own potential to build it and fly. Possibilities are all the resources, opportunities, and circumstances available to you in the world outside of yourself. Potential comprises the resources that exist within you.

Think about the possibilities that the universe has given you – and think about how you are using your potential.