Maximize Your Potential

By Bishop Eric K Clark

There seems to be a lot of interest in self improvement and maximizing your potential today. Progressive people want to do better in all aspects of their lives. In this book Eric Clark approaches this subject in an eye-opening way and gives practical instructions as well as useful tools that can help you continually maximize your potential.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9781304201065

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Dedication

I dedicate this book to Bishop Luther James Blackwell, my wife and sons, and my extended family.

Bishop Blackwell, you have been my inspiration for over 20 years. I’ve watched you maintain a strong family relationship, serve the kingdom of God passionately and operate at a level of excellence in business and financial affairs. The Lord gives everyone somebody to look up to, and you have been that somebody in my life. You motivate me to reach my maximum potential.

To Lynora, Eric Jr., Daniel, David, and all my extended family: your love and adoration for me, makes me want to be the best I can be. You all are truly my driving force to be the best I can. Bishop Blackwell is ahead of me, pulling me forward, and all of you are behind me, pushing me in the same direction.

Special Thanks

I want to thank Erica Nicole, who has assisted me on several literary projects. You continue to do the tedious work behind the scenes that makes every project a success. Thank you for your many hours and helpful insight.

And also a special thanks to Dawn Collins. Your contribution is greatly appreciated.

Introduction

Michael Fred Phelps II is an American competition swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time. With 22 medals in three Olympiads. Phelps also holds the all-time record of 18 Olympic gold medals (which is double the amount of the second-highest record holders). This Baltimore, Maryland native won 8 gold medals at the 2008 Beijing games. He took the record away from fellow swimmer Mark Spitz for the most first-place finishes in any single Olympic game in the 2012 summer Olympics in London. Phelps won 4 gold and 2 silver medals making him the most successful applicant of the games for the third Olympics in a row. He has won a total of 77 medals in major international long course competitions with 61 gold, 13 Silver, and 3 bronze medals spanning the Olympics, the world, and the Pan Pacific Championships. Phelps international titles and record-breaking performances have earned him the world swimmer of the year award seven times, and the American swimmer of the year awarded nine times since his unprecedented Olympic success in 2008. Phelps also became the Sports Illustrated Magazine, sportsman of the year, according to Wikipedia. Let’s just say that this guy can swim.

Hearing all of these great accomplishments of Mr. Phelps makes one wonder, will anyone ever do better, will anyone ever break his records, will anyone ever accomplish more as a professional swimmer or an Olympian? I’m sure that his story has and will inspire many to reach for such lofty goals. His accomplishments will fuel the dreams of many young competitors, motivating them to maximize their potential.

As I go forward in this book, I want to consider what is potential? I want to take a look at how humans continue to break records that have stood for many years and push beyond barriers reaching heights that we have never seen before. How is it possible that humans are running faster than they’ve ever run before, jumping higher than they’ve ever jumped before and creating technology and systems which connect the world in ways that were only imagined years ago? I ask the question, Do humans have more potential today then they had in the past? If so, How did that happen? What are the triggers, or mechanisms and environments that nurture to maturity the potential that lays dormant in many individuals? I want to unlock some of the secrets that assure us that Michael Phelps’ records will one day be broken. I want to talk to you about the potential that’s in everyone around you and especially the potential that’s in you. In this book, I’m also going to expand the conversation to the potential of time and seasons, as well as the potential of relationships and unions. Finally, I want to ask a question; does potential have a limit? Of course, we know that there are no limits in God, but the question is, are there limits in man? Is there a point that man cannot go beyond physically, spiritually, and emotionally in his accomplishments? There are so many examples of success that motivate us and inspire us to keep reaching, to keep stretching ourselves to and beyond our limits. So many have become overachievers in the eyes of others, yet they remain under achievers in their own eyes. Does this mean that they maximized their potential in the eyes of others, but in their own eyes, they left many things undone and didn’t reach their full potential or explore all the possibilities? Think about it, who or what determines when your limits have been reached? It’s been said, there’s always room for improvement, and if that’s true, do we ever max out in anything? And yes, we will answer the question of, How do I maximize my potential?

Chapter 1

What is Potential?

The dictionary defines potential as having or showing the capacity to develop into something in the