Pace Vs. Potential

Have you ever noticed a strange thing when you get off the highway onto an off ramp or side road? On the highway you're doing about 100 miles an hour, and the speed limit on the side road says 60 miles an hour. You hit the brakes, and think you may have slowed down to 60mph. Yet, you're still doing 80mph. Horrors! You were sure you'd slowed down enough and yet you haven't.

You're experiencing pace vs. potential.

If you were driving at 60mph before you hit the off ramp, you'd do 60mph quite easily. It's because you were oh-so-fast, that you ended doing an 80. But how the heck are you going to ever do an 80 in your life, if you don't hit 100?

Because when you're on 100, even your hit-the-brake speed is a good 80.

People hate to be pushed

They want to go at their own pace. They believe they know what's good for them. Yet your life is like a car. You don't know your potential till you really hit the accelerator. You don't know how far you can go unless you hit feel the tires steaming up.

Look around you. The little ol' lady in the next lane is still getting to her destination, but she'll get there whenever. At her own pace. Pace is great. But potential, ah...now that's when you really know the stuff you're made of.



Which is why Tiger Woods has a coach

Which is why Tiger is the best golfer in the world. Because his coach knows the pace of Tiger. But the coach pushes Tiger to his potential.

The difference between pace and potential isn't always a big gap. Try it. It will make a world of a difference in both your business as well as your personal life.

Summary:
Pace is good. But pace is you. And goodness gracious, you don't really know yourself as well as you think you do.
Potential is when you hit the accelerator. When you find what is really possible to achieve. Once you know what you can achieve you're breaking the speed limit.
Tiger is naturally talented. Yeah right. So are a squillion other golfers. The difference between Tiger and the others is Tiger doesn't keep to the pace of the others. He keeps stretching his own potential. You should too.
What is Your Potential?

We Can Make A Difference!!!

Indeed a pleasure connecting with all the sacred souls through this magazine.

There are so many thoughts that come to me while I sit and write. May be I should write all the wonderful sounding big things that speak a lot but do not give access to yourself. May be I should have the courage  and tough love to ask you some critical questions or maybe I should just connect  to your hearts and ask you…as you read this magazine today..

It gives me immense joy and sense of fulfillment when I look back during my high school days. As and when I recall a small little story “it makes a difference”, I ask myself am I practicing the value I learnt during my school days.

 The story goes like this:-

Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.

One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like dancer. As hegot closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young  man, and that what he was doing was not dancing  atall. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects, and throwing them into the ocean.

He came closer still and called out “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?”

The young man paused, looked up, and replied ‘Throwing starfish into the ocean.’

I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean? ‘asked the somewhat startled wise man.

To this, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it into the ocean, as it met the water, hesaid, “It made a difference for that one”.

The wise man spent the morning throwing starfish.-Loren Elseley

Do I exhibit the values I learnt like the wise man from my teachers? If I ask the same question to all of you, will the answer come in affirmative?

I was intrigued when prime minister NarendraModi in his maiden Independence day speech uttered the words:-“sangachchhdhvamsamvadadhvamsamwomanansijanataam”,We Walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together and together we take this country forward”. Amazing thought I said to myself once I listened it.Can i request you toplease read the sentence as let’s walk together, let’s move together, let’s think together and let’s resolve together and let’s take this country forward.

Let’s all commit to living a life of passion and commitment.

My optimism says we all can make a difference to humanity in our own unique way.

May Lord bless Maharaja High School to spread wisdom and right values till eternity.

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KalidashAchari,e-Mail:-k.kalidash@gmail.com,Mob-9583144405

Manger Learning &Development,Max Life Insurance 

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