Other strategies and skills to extend personal potential The following strategies and skills will also help you to develop your true and full personal potential: • Identify your talents and strengths: Identify all those things you love to do and those things you know you are good at or that people tell you that you are good at.


• Look for mentors: These are people who can help you develop your strengths and talents, for example a dancing teacher or sports coach. Finding a person who is willing to spend his/her time and attention on you will help you develop your skills in an effective way, as you will benefit from their knowledge and experience.


• Work hard: Put your best effort into everything you do when you are working towards what you want in life.


• Have patience: Things do not happen overnight, so be patient and you will be rewarded. Things worth having are worth waiting for.


• Show determination: Stick to your guns and never give in when things are not going your way or you come across difficulties.


• Have commitment: Be committed towards your goals and what you want to achieve. Do not let anything or anyone stand in your way of reaching them.


• Develop organisational skills: The more organised you are the easier the road to success will be. Plan out your ideas to their fullest before putting them into action.


• Learn from mistakes: You will make mistakes along the way but you can learn valuable lessons from these and move on and do things better next time.


• Have confidence in yourself: You have to be self-confident and believe in yourself and your ideas. Do not doubt yourself.


• Stay realistic: Do not set yourself goals that you cannot realistically achieve in a set amount of time. If your goals are unrealistic, you are setting yourself up for failure.


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