Over the past two weeks, from ep. 23 - 36, I’ve shown you how The Hero’s Journey is a great metaphor for the journey one takes when they live their life on purpose.

If you’re brand new to the podcast, make sure you listen through from ep. 23 to see the entire journey.

If you’ve just been listening for fun, but now would really like to experience The Hero’s Journey, go back through those episodes, but make sure to reach out to me and let me know what you’re working on.

I’d seriously love to know because by you living intentionally, it also helps keep me accountable to live my life more fully on purpose.

With The Hero’s Journey complete, I’d like to talk a bit more today about Self-Actualization. This is where you work to constantly better yourself and grow beyond limits.

We’re all about being limitless here and to do that, we need to identify barriers, break them, and work on the talents that we possess to do all things great.

We’re talking mastery-level here. Like earning ninja-like status. Which, to me, sounds pretty cool.

We’re talking about realizing your potential.

But, before we even look at the tips I have today, just ask yourself. Are you worthy of greatness?

Seriously, as cheezy as that question sounds, ask yourself it.

Let me tell you a quick story.

I once had a student who I knew was holding herself back. She was extremely creative, yet afraid to show it off. She hit behind this persona that she was really rough and tough  and could handle anything.

But, I would see her draw when no one was looking. And I’d see her read these deep philosophical texts and write essays about exploring the truth.

To make a long story short, one day after class she started talking to me about her dreams in life. And so I asked her that one simple question. I asked, “Do you think you’re worthy of greatness?”
And she broke out into tears.

Honestly, I wasn’t expecting that and it kind of took me by surprise. But her answer was “I don’t know.”

She went on the rest of the year producing incredible work and at the end of the year wrote me this awfully nice letter about how I helped her realize her potential.

You see, that’s self-actualization. When you realize that you can be anything you want to be. You just need to work on it.

 

Here are three tips to grow your unlimited potential. 

1. Understand That You Can Be Anything You Want to Be

This is truer than every before. Just knowing that we live in a time where you don’t need as much money to gain access to knowledge is enough to help push someone to better themselves with education.

It used to be that only the wealthy could afford great education. They had access to knowledge that the average income family could not afford, let alone children growing up in developing countries.

Now, to learn something, all you need is the internet. Sugata Mitra has proven that the internet can help a child growing up in the poorest parts of India reach self-actualization.

For instance, listening to this show, we have people from all over the world. There’s a large group of people in Nigeria who are listening in, Switzerland, Dominican Republic, The U.S., Canada.

No one yet from South America, so I suggest we all share this podcast with someone we know down there to spread the message.

This is truly incredible.

You can, and you should, listen to lectures at Stanford, Harvard, or Oxford. Look up Udacity or Coursera to see what I mean.

There’s no longer any excuse to be be held back my ignorance. If you can learn anything, you can be anything you want to be.

I’ll repeat that because it’s so important.

If you can learn anything, you can be anything you want to be.

 

2. Surround Yourself with People who Challenge You. The 33% Rule.

Tai Lopez often talks about what he calls The 33% rule. I love it. And I think you will too. It basically states that you should divide your time up between three groups of people.

1. Those you can mentor

 

2. Those who are on the same level as you

 

3. Those you aspire to be more like and can learn from

Doing this helps you better learn what you know because you’re teaching it and then challenges you to push through to learn and do more because of those you aspire to be more like. And it helps to troubleshoot through your problems with those on the same level as you.

 

3. Find Happiness in the Now

One thing that’s often not talked about in terms of realizing your potential is the power of focusing on now.

As humans, it’s so easy to put happiness as out there. Like I’ll be happy and have reached my potential when I have achieved this, or have this new gadget, or have had this experience.

Trust me, I get that. I have a tremendous fear of missing out and I also yearn for more. That’s in my DNA.

 

But, understand that you need to cut what you are attached to. Become unattached from the future and focus on the now. Realize all that you have done and love yourself for who you are right now.

When we cut our attachment to outside things making us happy, it allows us to better focus. It allows us to realize happiness in the present and best utilize what we have in front of us.

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I sat down to talk with Larendee Roos and Dawn Doherty in NYC a while ago to talk about this concept. Larendee and Dawn have worked in the corporate world for a long time and their latest consultancy explores what they call spirit-based business.