Your Potential Unleashed: The Path to an Authentic Life

Years ago, I wrote a sentence that has remerged and ignited something in me.

All thanks to a stranger on the internet highlighting the line on my Medium post (thank you!).

I have a deeper understanding of the line, and honestly, its undiscovered layers scare and frustrate me. I’m living in this bizarre juxtaposition of comprehension and not knowing it at all.

When you connect and take consistent action toward your life calling, life’s task, personal legend, or whatever you’d like to call it, you experience a sheer adulterated beauty.

It’s the beauty of expansion in the pursuit of mastery.

My life calling is the expression of ideas through writing and speaking. So when a line I wrote years ago resurfaces and sparks me, I can’t leave it alone; I have to ask what I may have missed.

Is there more to discover? In this case, there is, but I’m struggling to access it.

Here’s the line that’s sparked me and vexes me:

The level of regret we experience at the end of our lives is directly proportional to the amount of our potential we leave on the table.

What vexes me is the word potential. It’s overused and, I believe, misunderstood, but that doesn’t diminish…