Peak Persona: Put the Power of Your Potential to Work

By Vera Ama Ng'oma

How high do you think your potential is?

How much of it do you believe you are using now?

Whats stopping you going full throttle with your potential?

Give yourself the push you need to enter your peak state with Peak Persona, and optimize your gifts, skills and talents and to live your personal and professional life purposefully and fully. Topics covered include;

Star in your own life and dont insist on fitting in
Avoid a scarcity mentality and be fruitful
Understand yourself and make use of pressure
Dont let a knock down become a knock out
Master the circumstances of your daily life
Cultivate a risk-ready mindset and build courage

Whether youre looking to step up a little more each day or to finally move boldly towards your big goals, author, Vera Ama Ngoma offers something to help you use and rev up your capability, stop wasting your potential and to evolve into your most remarkable ever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 18, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504970853

Vera Ama Ng'oma

Vera Ama Ng'oma is a Leadership, Career and personal development expert with many years experience in front row roles in international development, education, news media and airline industries.Whether working with millennials or coaching executives, Vera brings solid practical leadership insights, integrity and a down to earth approach that helps brings clarity on what will bring life changing impact for her clients. When you work with Vera or read one of her books or articles, you get a strong sense of your own untapped capability and that via a combination of grounded self leadership, robust execution and an excellence philosophy you can drive your own success. Through the Excellica Leadership group, she helps individuals and workplaces to achieve superior performance through developing excellence in leadership, personal development and an enriched corporate life.

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Published by AuthorHouse 02/22/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5049-7085-3 (e)

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction

PART 1: HEALTHY SELF-BELIEF

Chapter 1: Trust in your potential

Chapter 2: Create a clear vision statement

Chapter 3: Develop your life philosophy

Chapter 4: Be comfortable in your own company

Chapter 5: Be scrupulous

Chapter 6: Accept that no one owes you

Chapter 7: Don’t insist on fitting in

Chapter 8: Be humbly confident

Chapter 9: Acknowledge and use your gifts

Chapter 10: Avoid people who belittle your ambitions

Chapter 11: Stay thankful

Chapter 12: Understand how you are wired

PART 2: ACTIVATED AMBITION

Chapter 13: Make your values your beacon

Chapter 14: Believe more is possible

Chapter 15: Tame your butterflies

Chapter 16: Make no small choices

Chapter 17: Avoid a scarcity mentality

Chapter 18: Have fire in your belly

Chapter 19: Make a mark wherever you are

Chapter 20: Enhance your inputs

PART 3: RUTHLESS DECLUTTERING

Chapter 21: Manage your mind

Chapter 22: Tackle your distractions

Chapter 23: Don’t overdo things

Chapter 24: Say ‘‘no’’ or be swamped

Chapter 25: Practice healthy quitting

Chapter 26: Spring clean regularly

Chapter 27: Master the circumstances of your daily life

Chapter 28: Trace the source of your challenges

Chapter 29: Focus on what you’re getting right

Chapter 30: Do reality checks regularly

Chapter 31: Don’t complicate problem-solving

PART 4: CONSISTENT MOMENTUM

Chapter 32: Create your own ‘’forcing’’ system

Chapter 33: Make good use of pressure

Chapter 34: Play on though the pain

Chapter 35: Keep a ‘’will do’’ attitude

Chapter 36: Maintain your vitality

Chapter 37: Honour what you get to do

Chapter 38: Accept temporary solutions

Chapter 39: Make stepping up on yourself a habit

Chapter 40: Grow as quickly as required

Chapter 41: Draw benefit from all experiences

Chapter 42: Don’t let a knock-down be a knockout

Chapter 43: Hone non-talent skills

Chapter 44: Learn to swim on the deep end

Chapter 45: Don’t work in default mode

Chapter 46: Stop waiting for mega opportunity

Chapter 47: Win well

PART 5: INTENTIONAL EXCEPTIONALISM

Chapter 48: Define and deploy your distinction

Chapter 49: Find your genius

Chapter 50: Surround yourself with brilliance

Chapter 51: Do your own push-ups

Chapter 52: Star in your own life

PART 6: TARGETED OUTREACH

Chapter 53: Seek out people who will be useful

Chapter 54: Develop and maintain your contacts

Chapter 55: Be a worthwhile mentee

Chapter 56: Make the world your classroom

Chapter 57: Become well read

PART 7: DELIBERATE EXPANSION

Chapter 58: Do what grows you

Chapter 59: Stay ready for enlargement

Chapter 60: Be fruitful

Chapter 61: Increase your responsiveness

Chapter 62: Ramp up your creativity

Chapter 63: Recognize and pursue opportunity

Chapter 64: Touch other lives positively

PART 8: POSITIVE PERSISTENCE

Chapter 65: Take difficult seasons on the chin

Chapter 66: Don’t avoid the challenging path

Chapter 67: Get a grip on worrying

Chapter 68: Transcend your disadvantage

Chapter 69: Don’t let problems be the problem

Chapter 70: Stick with things

Chapter 71: Sacrifice for the right things

Chapter 72: Don’t overreact on your weaknesses

Chapter 73: Cultivate a risk-ready mindset

Chapter 74: Learn how to do damage control

Chapter 75: Build a courage wall

Chapter 76: Live forward

Chapter 77: Don’t insist on loving everything you do

Chapter 78: Be introspective

Chapter 79: Stay hungry

Chapter 80: Do self assessments

Final word

About the Author

Dedication

This book is dedicated to everyone who

believes they have so much more in them

and prepared to keep stepping up to

live out their fullest potential.

Introduction

Potential!

It is such an important gift we each have but unfortunately, very few people explore it and use it fully. Even fewer recognize its power to transform their lives. Potential won’t be much use unless it is activated and optimised.

Fulfilling your potential is your business and one that you would do well to take it seriously. It’s what will make your life rich and meaningful, it’s what will enable you come into your own, demonstrate what you’re made of and reach your strongest personal growth and professional advancement.

When you leave your potential untapped you will easily be stalled by circumstances and perform beneath what you are capable of instead of harnessing your innate qualities to leap and soar at your highest capability.

Living your full potential is a lifelong journey of pursuing actions that will stir you up to live an inspired life, to rise with possibilities and to keep your dreams and aspirations transformational.

If you feel you are at the best you can be right now, pack that stunted confidence and prepare to step up higher. If you’ve been sitting on your potential, it’s not too late to do what will move you from where you are to the much bigger plane you could get to.

In here, I show you how to stoke your potential, wean yourself from staid conditions and shut up the voices in your head that stall your ambitions and take yourself to the realms of capability you can barely imagine now.

I hope the principles, ideas and advice in this book help you to stop short changing yourself and to bring out the best and the most in you always. After all, if you can’t count on you to optimize your potential, then what?

It’s all in your hands.

Vera Ama Ng’oma

PART 1

HEALTHY SELF-BELIEF

Chapter 1

Trust in your potential

Potential is simply what you are capable of doing, becoming the best you that you can be. Living up to your potential must be driven by you and that means you have to have absolute faith in your abilities.

Other people can facilitate and support you in your bid to live up to your full potential but the journey to your peak state must be led by you. You have to be in the driving seat to discovering and applying yourself to live your fullest life.

Living up to your full potential will not happen by chance. You’ll have to be self aware, know what your strengths and passions are and take deliberate action to unearth harness and maximise that potential.

Your potential is latent and needs to be given life. It’ll not kick immediately into gear when you are ready to deploy it at a higher level. You’ll have to nurture it and polish it as you would a rough diamond so that it can shine.

It takes courage to commit to doing what will make your potential blossom because it’ll take you on a journey of consistently stepping out of your comfort zone. Don’t waste another second in letting yourself step into the fullest version of who you really could be.

Living your potential is a process of self-discovery that will last your lifetime and enable you lead a rich, meaningful and purposeful life. It’s a process of exploration and experimentation and creating what inspires you.

It starts with identifying your unique gifts and abilities, essentially where your strengths lie, ‘’exercising’’ them and putting yourself in the right space for your strengths to bloom, your brilliance to emerge and your destiny to be fulfilled.

There is no magic bullet that leads you to your full potential. It’s about stopping the self-limiting game, stretching yourself, evolving and improving, identifying patterns in your behaviour that hold you back and opening doors for yourself to higher thresholds of performance.

Chapter 2

Create a clear vision statement

Too many people focus on what they don’t want instead of what they do. But without determining what you want you’ll be spending all your energies preventing what you don’t want instead of pursuing what you want. Create a vision of what you want in your life and make that happen.

Get clearer about your desires and motivations and capture them in a way that inspires you and then work out how you’ll achieve them. Being clear about what you want will help you develop the positive mindset and make conscious decisions that will enable you gain your goals.

Your vision statement should capture your picture of your ideal future and should be compelling enough for you to be energized to do what it’ll take to get there. Having a carefully articulated vision will be a roadmap to guide you and make it more likely that you’ll achieve what you desire.

Spend some time to identify the distinctive ways that you will accomplish your vision. Avoid thinking only about what a leap it might take to get to your big goals because it’ll get you stuck. Focus on what you want to attain