Learn to Unlock Your Full Potential

For many years, I was doing my work without understand the trueself. I was progressing in life but speed was slow due to many problems. The first problem was, assuming myself as a body. Means my body is me. Most of people think like this.

The question is, how this type of knowledge was a problem?

This was a problem because whenever I did not achieve a target, I got furious and punished my body. I used to say that my body did not achieve this target because of lack of understanding, will power, discipline, motivation and many more things. In short, I used to blame myself for underachievement.

This changed when I started understanding my true self. In a true sense, I am the source of my body. In fact, everyone is the source of their body. The source of the body is formless, limitless and infinite.

For example:

Our body is like ice. And the source of the ice is water.

Once we understand that we are the source of the body then most of the fears go away. The source is infinite, limitless and formless.

Most of us have a fear of death because they think their body is themself.

The point here is we have to understand ourselves from inside or spiritually.

To have the self-knowledge, we have to constantly focus on four areas:

1. Physical Body

2. Mind

3. Who am I in reality?

4. How to get anything in the universe.

Understanding our body is very important to keep it healthy and fit. Therefore we have to have the right understanding of what to eat when to eat. What nutrition is required, how much physical exercise is required.

Our mind is the playground of our thoughts. So, we have to learn to control our thoughts otherwise our thoughts will control our life.

Many times, my thoughts were controlling my life because actions happen according to the type of thoughts generate in the mind.

The understanding of "Who am I" is essential otherwise we will not move in the right direction in life. Many people pass their life without understanding their true self and regret at the end even after they have achieved all the material things they require.We have to have required principle to lead a great life. For this, get knowledge to make life smooth. The fact is, most people focus on this area and forget the above three.

Before understanding myself, I was scared of failure, losing things, to take any action and scared of following my passion.

Therefore it becomes critical to understand self and achieve your dreams, utilizing full potential, lead a great life with joy.

What can you do to understand yourself?

1. Always keep learning. Do not ever stop learning.

2. Learn to understand the truth in every area of life.

Benefits of understanding true self:

1. You will not fear to take a new path in life.

2. You will believe in yourself.

3. You will not fear to take the risk in life.

4. You will control your life instead of surrounding controls you.

Most people live their life without finding their life purpose. Such type of people live an unhappy life. It's an individual responsibility to find their life purpose and live that. Without life purpose, people go where life takes them.

Here are five questions you ask yourself to find your life purpose:

1. Who you are?

You already know it. It’s your name. But I recommend that you understand your trueself. If you try, you will find that you are infinite in all respects and you are formless. So, never fear to do the things you are here for.

2. What do you love to do? (One thing that you supremely qualified to teach)

Write down, one thing that you love to do. In other words, you feel you can teach other people effectively. There is always at least one thing you can teach.

First two questions are about yourself. And the next three questions are about other people whom you will help.

3. Who you do it for?

Define, whom you can help? Find out what problem they face. What are their pains and struggles?

4. What these people want or need?

Now define, what solution these people want. Try to find a solution that can solve their problem easily.

5. How do they change as a result?

Now define, how your solution is changing their life and what they are feeling about it.

By asking these simple questions, you will able to find out your life purpose. And now commit to providing the solution in all the situations.

The examples of life purpose:

"I want to help people to achieve their dreams........"

"I want to help people to quit their 9-5 job and design life......."

"I want to help people to grow their businesses......."

"I want to help students to achieve good grades......"

Most of us are dragged back by fears. Fear is a powerful factor. I was pulled back by fear many times at different stages.

When my business failed, I thought of starting the job again. Even though I had a degree and experience, I was frightened.

Thoughts like "No one will give me a job" gripped my mind. It was very difficult to go and apply for a job again.

Many times such things happened to me. Such type of fears are psychological fear which remains for some time. In fact, these days fear is increasing in-spite of science, education, and globalization.

The real question is, how does fear generate?

Fear generates due to unknown. No one has a fear of known. When we do not know something, we will have fear. And it becomes prominent if we don't know "How to learn anything".

If we make a commitment to learn lifelong then this fear will remain away from us. Learn a framework for learning anything. Tim Ferriss, the author of "4 Hour Chef" explained such a framework in this book.

Apart from this, we have fears of death or losing something important. These types of fears can be conquered by understanding self. So, read the chapter 1 again.

When you have fear, you won't take action. In the absence of action, one can go into depression. And depression is the state where one is bombarded with demotivating thoughts.

Action kills the fear. Action means doing the required things. When you do the required thing, fear disappears. Faster you take action, faster fear goes away.

What can you do to kill the fear?

1. First of all, define your fear on the paper. Find out its reason.

2. Define what is the worst thing that can happen?

3. And start improving from the worst case by taking action.

From childhood, we store the information according to our surrounding and teachings in our brain. This information acts as a source of the truth if we don't update it. Many times we store the information without checking its truthiness. It means that we assume that it is true. This assumption plays a vital role.

And when we assume things, we live in darkness. It takes a lot of efforts to remove this darkness.

I was doing the same thing for many years. I used to accept the things as is without questioning it. This developed a habit of believing in others than myself.

Needless to say, these things happen. If someone knows little more than us about a topic, then we say that he is true.

So the question is, how to eliminate these opinions and believe in ourselves?

First of all, "We have to question our own stored information". We have to ask, whatever information is stored in our mind, have we stored it without validating it? We have to question ourselves without bias. We have to remain truthful to ourselves first. If we find that it is stored with an assumption, eliminate it. 

The second thing we have to do is, "We have to validate whatever information we are getting from our surrounding". We have to ask questions again and validate it.

If we don't do the above two things then we end up believing in others than ourselves.

If you do the above two things continuously, no matter what the situation is, you will able to find the truth and take the right action.

And when you know the truth, you will be 100% confident, you will not fear things and you will not regret past mistakes.

Finding the truth requires daily practice. You have to closely observe your own thoughts and words of the other people. So, make it a habit to find the truth everywhere.

Benefits of finding the truth:

1. You will do anything with confidence.

2. You will believe in yourself and do the work according to your rules and regulations.

3. You will be happier.

4. You will make better decisions.

What can you do to find the truth?

1. Observe your thoughts very closely.

2. Observe nature very closely.

3. Listen other first.

4. Make it a habit to find the truth quietly.

Believing in yourself is a critical thing. You have to believe in yourself. I remember when I did not have confidence in me, I used to believe others without analyzing the complete thing.

One time, I thought of not using my brain and believing in the mentors. I failed miserably.

To believe in yourself, you have to start doing the things taking them as a test. So, when you are doing a task or work, take them as a test, you won't fear of failure or success. You will definitely take some steps.  Slowly and steady when you do multiple tests and learn from them, you will start believing in yourself.

You have to remain open to new challenges and problems to learn from them. If you have an attitude of always learning then no one stops you from achieving your goals and dreams. Once you start doing things from your heart then you will believe in yourself. You will have confidence in you.

One thing you have to do is focus on understanding self. Self-knowledge is the biggest asset. You will be able to solve your problems your own.

I focused on understanding myself, controlling my thoughts, understanding the mind and things started changing. I got more confidence in me, started believing myself instead of others.

Here are a few things you have to do:

1. Focus on solving the problems instead of accepting them.

2. Try to find the truth in any situation by developing good listening power.

3. Take action immediately to test your assumptions.

If you believe in yourself, others will believe in you. Self-belief is essential for achieving your goals, dreams, and success.

I failed measurably in my first business and started my regular job. In job, I used to go office. But I was missing something. My dreams did not seem possible in the job.  So, I hated my job without finding the real cause of hatred.

Demotivating thoughts appeared in my mind again and again. It became impossible to live a miserable life. It seemed that nothing is in my control. Due to such a situation, I used to get emotional on small-small things. In an emotional situation, I used to feel helpless.

A comparison to other people or friend ruined my day many times. In a helpless situation, anger used to be at its peak.

It became very difficult to control anger.

To get some help, I started finding out solutions in books. I read many books. I found the solutions and started implementing them.

But the problem was that they were temporary solutions. It means that they used to provide relaxation for some time.

My own thoughts used to control the situation instead of me controlling it.

What was the real cause of anger?

There were many reasons. Sometimes, it was dissatisfaction, sometimes it was comparison and sometimes it was high expectations.

It was very difficult to calm down in many situations. And I wasted a lot of my precious time being emotional.

I found the permanent solution when I learned to control my thoughts. Buying and the reading books did not help me much.

So, it becomes necessary to control your thought and control your life.

And you can control your thoughts by observing them and finding the truth. You can control the thoughts by finding the root cause of thoughts. Controlling thoughts requires practice because they generate many times. So, make it a habit to control your thoughts and become calm in any situation.

What can you do to control anger?

1. Check your expectations. Have the right expectations instead of high expectations.

2. Observe your thoughts and check, why they are generating.

3. Ask yourself, are you really want to waste time being emotional?

Every one of us wants to have happiness. Some people become happy when they achieve something or learn something or get something, complete something. But the problems is they associate happiness with something. It means that happiness is associated with the state of their mind.

If our mind sees something pleasurable, it becomes happy otherwise it becomes sad or remains neutral.

For many years, I also associated happiness with dreams, achievements, feeling, etc. And most of the time, I remained unhappy except a few times.

It is a deep concept to digest and understand. We all are born with freedom and happiness. It means that our existence is happiness. But most of us unable to recognize it or accept it.

Our limited thinking makes it unacceptable.

So, you need to know who you are really.

If you know, who you are then you will be happy in all the situation. In reality, you are infinite, formless and limitless. The entire universe is for you and you are in the entire universe.

So, there is no reason to be sad. You just need to understand and digest this reality.

The problem is, we think that we are this body. We want to have the things that exist around us. We want to buy them to get happy. Happiness can't come by buying the things, it is temporary happiness, not permanent. It goes after some time and we start looking for other things that we don't possess.

Another thing is, it is our perspective that makes a situation bad or good. We can always look at the good side of every situation.

So, it is possible to remain happy always.

And if we learn to remain happy then we can achieve anything and even worst situation can't harm us.

What we can do to remain happy?

1. Understand that you are infinite, formless and limitless.

2. Always look for the truth.

3. Try removing your reference point from the body and put it on the source.