For those of you who were waiting for the second installation of the John Maxwell seminar, here it is! We left off at some guide questions aimed at how you can find your passion and eventually discover your strengths.
SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE GROW TO THEIR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL
You may notice that people who are already successful somehow knew what they wanted to be at a very young age. Somehow they had focused on attaining this certain goal when they were very little. If you don’t know how to get to succeed, don’t worry too much. It’s quite common not to know what you want to do with your life. It’s okay–really.
Make a "personal plan" for growth–Growth is not an automatic process. Growth moves around purpose. So if you have purpose in life, there’s a very good chance that you are up for a whole lot of positive change.
1. Plan for personal growth - what are you doing right now to make your life better? You have to understand that experience is not the best teacher. If that were true, then every elderly person in the world would be absolutely successful and nobody would be left inside the "homes for the aged".
2. What are you doing to grow the people around you? - This takes place after you have reached your own personal success. Think of people like plants. What are you doing to cultivate their own strengths so that they can reach their success? Remember, the people around you are either making you or breaking you.
My former superior, Dr. Florina Capistrano-Baker, PhD - Director of Ayala Museum eloquently put it as: "We tend to gravitate to the people we can relate to." But what if you can change this common reaction of your own mind. Instead of gravitating to people, why don’t you seek the people you intend to gravitate to. Find people around you who are upright in their field whom you can emulate. Surely, this positive image will open your perspective to a whole new world of opportunities. Gravitate to people who will make you strive for better things and grow.
3. Success is Sowing seeds that Benefit Others–Think about this, "Successful people are committed in adding value to other people." By this, Maxwell means it is everyone’s responsibility to try and influence other people in doing the just and upright things in this world.
I shall try to explain further in part three… but for now God Bless.
