You vs You: Rated Potential

Let us start with a statement by Rain, "The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries."

It is easy to get into competition with others (persons and organizations). The reason is not far-fetched, it is our nature to look for markers against which we measure progress and success.

The quote above, prescribes a better parameter: testing one's boundaries.

The best, and arguably the hardest, phenomenon to gain the upper hand over, is what one is capable of.

Potential (what you can be/do that you have not yet become/done) is what everyone comes packaged with.

The issue is that for majority of people, they do just enough to get by, and never tap into the gamut of what they came pre-loaded with.

Your desire should be to best your last performance, every time.

And that is the journey to your rated potential (RP).

Your RP is the optimal point at which you have (inbuilt) capacity to function. It is more concerned with what you are capable of doing/being...in the future, than with external validators.

Rather than run your life on the basis of extrinsic goals and successes, work to hit the upper limit of your RP.

That is a point not many attain. Those who do, are fulfilled. Those who have not but are on course, live by a different set of rules...those set by what they are capable of and not public opinion.

Howard Cosell said, "The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give."

That, dear friend, is the true definition of success.

Welcome to your future!

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