Realising Your Potential: a personal growth challenge

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Realising Your Potential a personal growth
challenge

• Bill Barbour
• billbarbour_at_onetel.com

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Definition

• The term realise means
• To become aware of a fact and understand its
  meaning
• To work toward and achieve a goal that was
  planned

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Workshop Purpose

• To help you discover
• The true purpose of your life
• The hidden, unrealised potential within yourself
• How to realise a life of prosperity

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My Core Beliefs

• We can change ourselves and our communities for
  the better
• But first we need to change our individual
  attitudes and behaviour
• The answers already lie with us
• (inside-out approach)

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Two Broad Themes to Explore

• What do I really want for my life
• (and why?)
• What do I need to do to make this
• a reality?

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What do I really want in life?

• More specifically
• What is the purpose of my life?
• Only by knowing your purpose will
• you be able to take control of the
• direction of your life

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• Most people fail through lack of
• purpose than lack of talent.
• William Ashley
• Where will you find your purpose?
• In your talents, in your interests, and
• in your passions.

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Your Purpose is the Why of yourLife?

• S/he who has a why to live for can
• bear almost any how. Nietzsche
• What is your life message which
• communicates your purpose for
• being and doing?
• Your purpose comes from your inner
• vision of who you are (your values)

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My Present and ... My Future

• Future ____________
• problem /
• opportunity gap
• Present
• __________

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How Do I Find My Purpose?

• Identify your unique set of skills, knowledge,
  and people relationships
• Find ideas that match these
• Turn one good idea into an opportunity
• Act as if you have reached your final goal

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Self-Discovery

• You already have unique skills, knowledge and
  personal contacts for prospering more in life
• You are able to be creative and to find ideas for
  succeeding (further)
• You need to find something to be passionate about
  
• You can match your unique set of skills,
  knowledge and connections to a suitable idea

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Personal Inventory of your Intangible Assets

• Spend a week completing each of the Lists below
  (three weeks in total)
• List 1 Your Skills List
• List 2 Your Knowledge List
• List 3 Your Relationship List

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1. My Skills List

• Anything you do well based on your personal
  performance
• For example
• communicating, educating, inspiring, intuition,
  decision-making, public speaking, writing,
  selling

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2. My Knowledge List

• Anything you are familiar with about a subject
  rather than your skills at it
• For example Education youve been
• educated in some way or something, or you
• wouldnt be doing what it is you are doing in
  your career.
• What Specialised knowledge do have but have not
  turned into skills through practice? Art,
  Music, Culture

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3. My Relationships List

• List all the people you know. Categorise
• them
• Category 1 Colleagues you work with
• Cat. 2. Colleagues you once worked with
• Cat. 3. Family, relatives, neighbours

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Next Step

• Use the insight you gained from completing your
  three personal inventory Lists to look for your
  Purpose
• Focus on ideas that are directly related to the
  skills, knowledge and relationships from your
  personal inventory lists

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Statement of My Purpose in Life

• My purpose is to..
• Examples (Bill Barbour)
• My purpose in life is to inspire people to find
  their true purpose in life.
• My purpose in life is to lead and inspire
  entrepreneurs to extraordinary prosperity.

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Realising Your Purpose

• Set clear, tangible goals
• Purpose is where you go
• Goals are how you get there
• Purpose is the what
• Goals are the how

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Living on Purpose

• Your Dream Theme Team
• Scheme
• leads to.. Your Prosperity

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Living on Purpose

• Dream - what is your burning desire and your
  clearly visualised goals?
• Theme what unique benefits do you provide?
• Team who will join you as partner/s and
  mentor/s?
• Scheme what is your carefully prepared
  SYSTEM for realising your purpose?

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• Achieving Your Purpose
• Burning desire belief opportunity plan
  action determination
• Bill Barbour (2005)

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Examine yourself discover where your true
chance of greatness lies. Seize that chance and
let no power of persuasion deter you from your
task. Chariots of FireYour goal is to be
one in a million!