How to Find Your True Potential & Maximize It

So you can have a life with no regrets

Photo by Thaï Ch. Hamelin / ChokdiDesign on Unsplash

You never know when you’ll meet your potential.

The first time I felt the itch of potential was born out of heartbreak. I had just moved home from across the country after an attempt at a marketing career that sputtered out faster than an engine with no gas.

I worked for a high-end marketing firm in Hollywood, California, and like most things in California, the expectations didn’t meet reality. I was so unhappy there that the next job I took was the opposite of all things glitz and glamor: installing driveways in the hot & humid Ohio sun.

I was in a rut, both professionally and personally, and felt like a palm tree in a hurricane: just blowing in the wind. I knew life certainly had more to offer than asphalt, but I was on my ass, feeling sorry for myself. Until one day, on a whim, I decided to do the only thing I had complete control over: writing.

So I started, and the words exploded like a fire hydrant releasing its valve. It was cathartic — after all, I had been suppressing something I enjoyed doing for years. And when I was done, much to my chagrin, people who didn’t know me liked my story. Over a hundred of them. It was the first time I realized, “Hey, maybe I have a future here.”