Are you using 100% of your potential?

You and Your Potential

Each organization is managed by its employees at different levels. The productivity of the organisation depends upon the productivity of each of its employees. During recent times, organizations are being forced to contend with an increasingly diverse range of influential factors, which have implications for their efficiency and effectiveness (Marie McHugh, 1993)

These factors include overwork, overtime, higher expectations and shortage of employees, etc. Such factors are instrumental in creating a cumulative spiral of pressures among the employees and render them susceptible to the adverse effects of stress caused by such influences. The real productivity of the individual has remained an unknown term. The success stories of the individuals in different fields are the evidences that the individuals have enormous potential within them. In general terms the individual has 100% potential with him/her but is rarely known to him or anybody else throughout his/her lifetime. He expects to derive 30-40% of the actual potential which he/she assumes to be 100% but at the end of it s/he derives only a limited part (hardly 15-20%) of it. As a result of not knowing one’s potential, s/he is unable to cope up with the stress caused by different external and internal sources and succumb to pressure with low productivity.

 

This is true with every human body. You hardly receive 15% to 20% of the potential you actually have, whereas you expect that you should get 30% to 40% out of the potential you have. We are hardly aware of the hidden 55% to 60 % of the power within us. The whole life you live with your 15-20% potential, which you assume your 100% and complain to have bad luck, or not as lucky as others.  You hardly realise the importance of potential unless you are in competition with others to acquire something tangible.  Without the potential, you feel lost, sinking, hard to work, low at concentration and your body become incapacitated by a little exertion or infection. Each of us has differently developed potential inherited to us by our ancestors. The internal mechanism guides your way for performance. Some day, you are charged up and handle any task with ease and enthusiasm, another day you may take more time and energy to complete the same task, yet another day you are in pensive mood and won’t like to do anything.

Do you know why you have different state of mind on different days? Is it directly proportional to your food, mood or environment? There are certain indicators like, you feel great; you feel dull or feel beaten up. But none of these indicators are measurable. You certainly can never say “I am feeling just fifty percent great today” or “I am twenty percent down today”. Is this thought provoking?