Have YOU lived up to your full potential?

[JofromthaNO]

This comes from a conversation I was having with my homegirl last night...she was talking of disappointment that, even though she's a college graduate, she's yet to have started her career, and has no prospective love interests. As I'm sure many of us, as a child, semi-planned what age we want to get married, our dream job, what kind of car we'd drive, how many kids (if any) we would like, etc.

...But, things change. Life happens, and, many times, the plans we previously made for our lives change. So I'm asking you, SOL, do YOU feel you have lived up to the dreams you previously wished for yourself? Or, do you go with the flow, and let life live itself, not quite wondering or, rather, worrying about what hasn't YET occurred for you yet?

 

[femmenoire]

I certainly feel her pain.

I've not accomplished anything that I feel is important. And I fear I never will.

 

[LoneStar29]

^^^Not true Femme ... I see a great deal of potential in you ... you are a strong woman which is an accomplishment in itself if you ask me

I haven't lived up to my full potential ... but then again I aint done yet so I'ma just keep going 'till I get there

 

[jucurious]

femm...y do u feel that way



and me personally..i know i HAVEN'T lived up to my full potential

i half ass a lot of shit...i'm just lucky cuz my half assness is above average (not being cocky..being real). i call myself a lazy over achiever...i will do the least amount of work to get/be the best at something

if i really applied myself or stopped making excuses i would be off the chains..hahaha

i mean some feel i have accomplished a lot...career, education wise (google me baby

maybe but personally...not at all; i have a lot of work to do in that realm.


*DISCLAIMER*...the reference to googling me came from a song so don't hate

 

[PrincessC]

Does anyone ever, truly reach their full potential?
I think that the greatest business(wo)men, doctors, and minds would say no.
Its about continuously growing, learning, changing, reaching for new goals...
Life is a marathon, not a sprint.

 

[bigirl]

I did alot and I also fucked up alot. I can't complain that much because I got out of a horrible childhood situation and managed to travel the world and live really well. I would have thought I would have had a house and a family by now but oh well. My art is just about where I always wanted it to be, I just need to launch the next onslaught of marketing and PR. I made alot of big mistakes in my 20s and even 30s which is probably why I am not where I thought I would be now. I feel we have unlimited potential though. Like PC said it never stops and what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

 

[Mo-Better]

Truely sucessful people are never satisfied. Since they are never satisfied they will be the first to tell you, you should never be able to say you've reached you full potential. The more you have the more you should want.

So the answer is no!

 

[followup]

This comes from a conversation I was having with my homegirl last night...she was talking of disappointment that, even though she's a college graduate, she's yet to have started her career, and has no prospective love interests. As I'm sure many of us, as a child, semi-planned what age we want to get married, our dream job, what kind of car we'd drive, how many kids (if any) we would like, etc.

...But, things change. Life happens, and, many times, the plans we previously made for our lives change. So I'm asking you, SOL, do YOU feel you have lived up to the dreams you previously wished for yourself? Or, do you go with the flow, and let life live itself, not quite wondering or, rather, worrying about what hasn't YET occurred for you yet?

Title is different from the question LOL. Title is have I lived up to my full potential. My answer is not until I'm dead.

Question is did I achieve the goals I had when I was a child? Here are some of the ones my mom & I remember:
Get married at age 18 and have 4 kids - NO
Drive a car that flies in the air (please understand that when I was a kid the year 2000 was supposed to be this big change in everything) NO
Become an artist NO
Become a seamstress NO
Have a job where I wear a business suit & brief case (this was in high school) NO
Own a restaurant Nope
Travel to all 7 continents No, but 4/7 aint bad

So, no I didn't achieve my childhood dreams. But I'm achieving my adult dreams

 

[followup]

i mean some feel i have accomplished a lot...career, education wise (google me baby

maybe but personally...not at all; i have a lot of work to do in that realm.

*DISCLAIMER*...the reference to googling me came from a song so don't hate

I googled you and this is all that came up:

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[doggish_098]

here is my two cents on the subject and the way i try to live my life. I dont think a person should have say they have lived up to their potential. Everyday you should try to do things for yourself and OTHERS to make that day better than the day before. Every morning when i wake up i sit there and think about "my goals" for that day. Some notes are mental and sometime i actually write stuff down. You can look at certain people you may know or know of that you say this person has acheived all kinds of success and they are still a failure. You will always have potential to do greater.

 

[JofromthaNO]

Title is different from the question LOL. Title is have I lived up to my full potential. My answer is not until I'm dead.

Question is did I achieve the goals I had when I was a child? Here are some of the ones my mom & I remember:
Get married at age 18 and have 4 kids - NO
Drive a car that flies in the air (please understand that when I was a kid the year 2000 was supposed to be this big change in everything) NO
Become an artist NO
Become a seamstress NO
Have a job where I wear a business suit & brief case (this was in high school) NO
Own a restaurant Nope
Travel to all 7 continents No, but 4/7 aint bad

So, no I didn't achieve my childhood dreams. But I'm achieving my adult dreams

LOL... I thought that too, after I wrote it and posted it onto the board...I'm still working to fulfill many of the goals I set for myself, and, sometimes, I really doubt my occupation as a psychologist (and I'm just in the beginning years of it!)

I just wondered, I guess, if other people doubted their day to day and the life they THOUGHT they once would have and the potential they KNOW that is within them...

But, I guess, us setting these goals for ourselves at such a young age, before we understand what LIFE is about automatically sets us up for failure. Failure is maybe too harsh a word, but sets us up, perhaps, for not acquiring many of those things.

 

[SWATLANTA]

Not only have I lived up to it, I have surpassed it *takes a sip of 1787 Chateau Lafite from my Golden Chalice*. I have a wonderful family *hugs my wife, Stacey Dash*, with two wonderful children *runs fingers through their hair*. I drive the finest vehicles *looks out window at Bugatti Veyron * and my home is in the best neighborhood *sees Bill Gates cutting grass and waves*. I couldn't be happier *hits "submit reply", then dives in olympic sized pool*...

 

[Black Limey]

Everyday people wake up and do something brilliant.

That's how random life is. Could be you tomorrow or even today

We are all here for reason. Except Paris Hilton

Keep the faith.

"Who knows what tomorrow brings?"

 

[jucurious]

I googled you and this is all that came up:

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you ASS...lol

this site gets a SPECIAL sn and i was refering to my real name hahaha

ur such an ass...i'm crackin up over here...u got that hahaha

 

[LoneStar29]

^^^LMAO@followup googling your BGOL name instead of your real nameDyin'

 

[MegaDell]

Well, I planned on graduating with a bachelors at 22, seems maybe 23 due to a major switch (business to engineering), not entirely sure I can do engineering, want to move to NYC when I graduate.

Everything I wanna do relies on me graduating first.

 

[doggish_098]

Not only have I lived up to it, I have surpassed it *takes a sip of 1787 Chateau Lafite from my Golden Chalice*. I have a wonderful family *hugs my wife, Stacey Dash*, with two wonderful children *runs fingers through their hair*. I drive the finest vehicles *looks out window at Bugatti Veyron * and my home is in the best neighborhood *sees Bill Gates cutting grass and waves*. I couldn't be happier *hits "submit reply", then dives in olympic sized pool*...

Damn Tim you doing pretty good for yourself.

 

[onyxfemme]

Can you ever live up to your full potential???

 

[Mo-Better]

Can you ever live up to your full potential???

No you can't! The reason is what is your full potential? Who really knows?

 

[sean69]

I've always found it interesting that "Neurotic needs" are included in Maslow's theory but don't exist within the hierarchy.

* ... pulls cork off the bottle of wine with my teeth ...*

Self-Actualization has been described as the primary motive to realize all of one's potentialities, all other motives being merely manifestations of it.

*...takes a swig from the bottle of wine...wipes my mouth with the back of my hand...burps ... sniffs...*

Our human needs and ambitions drive us to be part of cohesive societies - basically, recognition from other people ("Attention Whoring" ... in extreme cases) consequently, feelings of prestige, acceptance, status, and self-esteem, that inadvertently result in feelings of adequacy, competence, and confidence, which, if harnessed improperly, may lead to the need to "Cape-Up", super heroically speaking or "Colossally Fail", "McCain Fail" or the need to "Re-boot one's Life"

*... frantically takes 4 more swigs of the wine bottle in rapid succession then takes a bite of last nights half-eaten smoked turkey thigh...* BRB ...

 

[DarkCity]

I have not yet reached the goals that I have set for myself when I was growing up. I thought I would be into my first year of teaching by now. I am on the right track though *finally*.

I think a more appropriate question would be are you satisfied with where your life is right now?

My answer is no. I should have graduated by now.

 

[sean69]

I have not yet reached the goals that I have set for myself when I was growing up. I thought I would be into my first year of teaching by now. I am on the right track though *finally*.

I think a more appropriate question would be are you satisfied with where your life is right now?

My answer is no. I should have graduated by now.

My answer = HELL THE FUCK YEAH I'm satisfied!!

I'm fucking alive, can afford to eat 3-11 meals a day, have a decent job - adequate financially, eyes, ears, limbs and all my critical physiological functions and organs are working, stable family, friends and loved ones, I got a bunch of "useless necessities" like cable, internet, cell phone, flat-screen plasma TV, etc!

Yeah. I'd say I'm good.

In your spare time, take a short visit to a hospital, check out the intensive care unit, ER, medical oncology/cancer treatment ward. When you're done, go on youtube and type in "Darfur" ...

... let's start with that short exercise for now

 

[Izayoi]

Everyday people wake up and do something brilliant.

That's how random life is. Could be you tomorrow or even today

We are all here for reason. Except Paris Hilton

Keep the faith.

"Who knows what tomorrow brings?"

Well said BL.

... and I agree with Sean. My life is truly truly blessed this day and everyday.

 

[shanebp1978]

No.

 

[SEXY_SCORPIO]

No you can't! The reason is what is your full potential? Who really knows?

C/S

 

[Digital Angel]

I've broken alot of barriers and defied many stereo-types. I was the first to complete high school in my family let alone college. But none of those things really fill me with pride. I get the most pride from the insight I can pass along to my neices and my boyfriends kids. I love actually knowing what the hell I'm talking about. When I was younger I'd have older cats try to tell me stuff while they were drunk as a skunk and broke as a joke, I of course didn't take heed to any of it. But I can tell my neices respect what I have to say and atleast find it important enough to listen to it. My potential to educate my family's future would definitely be my greatest potential.

And Femme you have an aura about you that is very unique and quite moving once you find your niche I'm sure you will influence many people.

 

[Imhotep]

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[DarkCity]

My answer = HELL THE FUCK YEAH I'm satisfied!!

I'm fucking alive, can afford to eat 3-11 meals a day, have a decent job - adequate financially, eyes, ears, limbs and all my critical physiological functions and organs are working, stable family, friends and loved ones, I got a bunch of "useless necessities" like cable, internet, cell phone, flat-screen plasma TV, etc!

Yeah. I'd say I'm good.

In your spare time, take a short visit to a hospital, check out the intensive care unit, ER, medical oncology/cancer treatment ward. When you're done, go on youtube and type in "Darfur" ...

... let's start with that short exercise for now

I feel what you are saying that we should be appreciative of everything that we have because their are a lot more people worse off then us. And most of us are truly blessed to be where we are.

But me personally while I am a lot better off then people who come from a similar background I still feel as though I could/should be in a much better place in my life.

 

[Lick]

In a word… NO… In two Not yet!
It took some time for me to learn and understand what I wanted and how to get there and what vehicle to use.
I have a blessed and good life… I know that the sky is my only limits… So I’m going big… Working on becoming a billionaire and forming a foundation for my offspring that I will never see or meet in this lifetime!
I would like to challenge everyone this board that is black to do the same!
Stay up!

 

[femmenoire]

^^^Not true Femme ... I see a great deal of potential in you ... you are a strong woman which is an accomplishment in itself if you ask me

I haven't lived up to my full potential ... but then again I aint done yet so I'ma just keep going 'till I get there

Thanks. I just always thought I was destined for something more. Something extraordinary and yet everything in my life has been quite ordinary or even sub par, IMO. But I am very hard on myself.

 

[AristotlesOwn]

The answer to your thread title: No, but I'm working on it

Anyway...am I where I thought I would be? No. Far from it. I had planned at 22 to reach multi-millionaire status by age 26, and jet-set around the world, but that plan has been placed on hold. I achieved my primary educational goal much earlier than I expected to, which is a feat in itself. I own a small business and also property in my hometown which are great accomplishments for me. As far as romance and relationships, I don't really think about that much; what guy does I think about dating and getting laid.

It just seems like you're setting yourself up for disappointment if you feel that you have to do something by a certain age as evidenced by my lack of millions