Sometimes being wrong is the best.

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Quick.  What’s the first answer that comes to your mind when I ask you this question:

“What’s possible for your future?”

For many of us, we will instinctively look to our past to decide what our potential is.  We may tell ourselves it would be too hard, too risky or too late to do big things in our lives and in the world.

If this is you, then you’re probably cheating yourself – and the world – out of amazing contributions.  

Google defines “Potential” as “latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and lead to future success or usefulness”.  

Notice the word “latent” in that definition.  

The qualities and abilities we have not YET fully developed are our potential.  They haven’t happened. Therefore, we can’t look to our past to define our potential.  That isn’t where it lives.

Go back to your answer to the question I asked you about your future.  

Do you like that answer? 

If not, consider the possibility that you could be wrong.  

I’m so glad I was wrong about being able to start a business on my own after spending 20 years in the corporate world.  

The stories my brain offered about it being too late, too hard and too risky… Turns out they were all just stories.  

If I had chosen to keep those stories we wouldn’t be here together right now.  I wouldn’t have impacted the lives I have, including my own. And, most likely, that latent potential would still be lying there dormant.   

Instead, I chose to be wrong about what I have to contribute.  I chose to be wrong about my potential. I chose to be wrong about what I thought I was capable of.   

Sometimes being wrong is the best.    

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