“You have within you the potential to accomplish wonderful things with your life” – Brian Tracy
Is there a gap between what you're capable of and what you're actually doing at work?
I keep hearing versions of the same thing from people I coach:
“I have this lingering feeling I’m capable of more. But I’ve been saying that for years…”
If you feel the same way, I’d love to invite you to join my new group coaching program:
Potential: Fulfilled
Perhaps you've become the safe pair of hands at work. You’re good at your job, you take pride in what you do and you can do most of your work with your eyes shut.
That’s all very nice.
Except deep down, you know you have more to offer. You know there are parts of you which aren’t being used at all. And you'd like to find a way to unleash more of your talents, cool ideas and unique perspectives into your work.
If that’s you, I’d LOVE to invite you to join my program.
How the program works
Imagine you’re struggling to climb a mountain while wearing a really heavy backpack.
You’re pushing as hard as you can. There’s sweat pouring from your brow and your legs are starting to cramp.
Then someone nearby asks why you’re not climbing faster.
Well, most advice about fulfilling your potential teaches you one of three things:
- Technique. So in order to climb faster, you need a better training routine, lots of practice and more stamina in your legs
- Mindset. This means getting your head right, building mental toughness and reframing the climb when things aren’t going well
- Direction. So clarifying your values and goals so you’re sure you’re climbing the right mountain in the first place.
But when it comes to fulfilling your potential, none of these will help you reach the top of the mountain.
In fact, they’re all getting in the way of you fulfilling your potential.
Take technique. Of course there are things you could get better at. But “I need to get better” is also a great way to avoid actually doing the thing they want to do.
Take mindset. If you’ve decided you need to get your mind right before you can fulfil your potential, you’ve given yourself another job to do. Treating your mind as something that needs to be managed just gives you more to manage. Which means less time and energy to fulfil your potential.
And the thing about direction is that most people spend so long mapping out the perfect route, they never even start running! Even if they do start, they keep looking back over their shoulder and asking “am I on the right path here?”. Do that often enough and you’ll stop moving (or you’ll run into a tree).
On Potential: Fulfilled, we take a different approach:
What if you just took off your backpack?
The backpack is everything we think we need to fulfil our potential. And the weight of that backpack is what creates the gap between what you’re capable of and what actually makes it into the world.
In my experience, the less we carry, the more we’re released to create things, solve problems and make the contributions that only we can make.
What changes as you fulfil your potential
*** That nagging sense that you're wasting your one and only life starts to fall away
*** Your ideas come out of your head and into the world. Could be a fun project or a new way of doing things. But whatever it is, it’s something REAL that wouldn't exist without you
*** You feel less guilt when you're resting. You also feel less guilt when you're being productive!
*** Your calendar changes. You notice you're spending less time on things that don't need you and more time on things you'd actually like to be doing
*** You stop getting to Friday afternoon wondering where the week went and whether you did anything that actually used your talents
*** You start getting involved in projects and conversations you previously watched from the sidelines. And where opportunities don't exist, you start creating them
*** People stop coming to you only for what you've always done and start coming to you for what you're genuinely good at
What you get
Here’s what you get when you join Potential: Fulfilled
- 10 live group coaching calls with me over 12 weeks, on Zoom
- A place in a small group of people who are exploring very similar questions. So you’ll hear from other people who would also like to use more of their talents and abilities at work too. And what I’ve found time and time again is that seeing something land for someone else often opens the door for you too
- Coaching from me on your actual situation. That means you bring whatever’s live for you and we’ll look at what’s in the way. It also means you’ve got someone who’s as invested in your potential as you are. If you've been waiting for your boss or colleagues to take an interest in what else you might be capable of, bring it here instead
- A recording of every call. So if you can’t make a specific session, it’s not a problem
FAQs
What do we cover each week?
The most useful conversations I have aren’t the conversations with a syllabus or prepared content. That’s because if I'm tied to a curriculum, I'm teaching at you rather than with you.
What you get instead on Potential: Fulfilled is me genuinely present with whatever's showing up for you.
In practice, that usually means I’ll share stories, ideas or distinctions on a certain theme at the start of each call. Then we go from there. Sometimes that means breaking into small group exercises, sometimes it means a Q&A and sometimes it means “hot seat” coaching.
But however the calls go, I’ll be responding to what's actually going on with the people on the calls.
Which means if you join the program, it’ll be a different program to one without you.
What if I can’t make all the dates?
Each session will be recorded and you’ll have lifetime access to these recordings. So if you miss a session, you can watch the recording.
Having said that, this program is designed for active participation rather than as a video library. If you can be there for most of the sessions, you’ll get what you came for (and probably more).
Will this program help me earn more or get somewhere more prestigious?
I can’t promise you a pay rise or a promotion.
What I can tell you is that most of us have inherited multiple definitions of “potential” from our parents, teachers, society, LinkedIn and the industry we work in. And we think fulfilling it means becoming important or impressive.
It might.
But your potential might also look quiet. It might look ordinary. It might not impress anyone. And you might even have found yourself in a very prestigious position, getting paid oodles of cash and still feel like you haven’t reached your potential.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting more money or a more prestigious position. But carrying around the thought that you should be earning more by now or that you should be higher up the career ladder by now is a rock in your backpack.
This program focuses on the rock.
And what I've seen over and over is that when you're not carrying the rock, you make different decisions and contribute what's actually yours to contribute instead of what you think will look good.
That’s how you fulfil your potential and not somebody else’s.
I’ve done jobs that came with lots of responsibility before and it was a huge burden. Is this program going to put me back there?
I totally get it. I’ve been there myself. In fact, going back to banking and the same job that burnt me out was one of the toughest decisions I’ve ever made.
You might have taken a job with less responsibility for exactly this reason. Your old job was too much to manage, so you picked a role you could manage instead.
But fulfilling your potential isn’t the same as doing more. Yes, it will mean there’s more of YOU in whatever you’re doing, But it could actually mean doing less.
So no, this isn’t about piling on more.
If anything, it’s about noticing how much you’re already carrying that you don’t need to be carrying. Including the worry that a bigger role is bound to feel like more of a burden.
What if I’m meant to do something else with my work or job? Am I going to join your program Tom and end up quitting my job?
You might.
But that’s not the point of this program. Equally, this program isn’t secretly designed to persuade you to stay in a job you hate until you retire.
Potential: Fulfilled will give you the keys to show up at your job with a renewed sense of aliveness, hunger, freedom, creativity and satisfaction. Today, tomorrow and in whatever jobs you do in the future.
That way, if you do decide to change careers or jobs at some point down the line, you'll be moving towards something you fancy instead of running away from something you can't stand.
How to join
Potential: Fulfilled is not currently open for enrolment.
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