Chapter 1: Do You Know What’s Limiting You?
In the first part of Chapter 1, John talks about learning how to become aware. You don’t know what you don’t know, so if you have no self-awareness, you will never be aware. Sort of like a catch-22. He goes on to talk about Awareness Assets:
1. Your capacity isn’t set
A lot of us have been put into a box most of our lives, been told that we are a certain way-- and we take this internally and accept it as a limitation. “If you don’t know what’s limiting you, how will you know to remove it?” We hear the word capacity and think of it as a limitation and we never really consider that it is something we can grow. Realize your capacity does not define who you are and you aren’t meant to settle with whatever capacity you believe you have.
2. You can become aware of the possibilities that can make you better
“All lasting growth requires awareness.” -- this is where John talks a lot about self-awareness. You have to be continually check yourself, so to speak but how do you know what you’re looking for? The answer is in others. You need help from those who can see farther than you, those who can see things that you can’t see.
He goes into a four step process:
1. Attention: Looking for what I need to know
2. Awareness: Discovering what I need to know
3. Discernment: Focusing on what I need to do
4. Intention: Acting on what I need to do.
more on 1-4 in a separate post!
3. You can remove the caps from your capacity
John addresses that in order to increase your capacity, you have to remove the caps that are holding you back. In order for you to remove these caps, you have to be aware that they exist and realize that those “limitations” are artificial, and that you can overcome them. In short, you need to have awareness of what it is that is restricting you so that you can work on it.
4. You can develop the capacities you already possess
Another way to increase capacity is to work on the ones you already have from energy, emotional, thinking, people, creative, production, and leadership capacity. We will go into these in a separate post.
5. You can make choices that maximize your possibilities
Last from the reading, John talks about making choices that will maximize your possibilities, there are other capacities not mentioned above (responsibility, character, abundance, discipline, intentionality, attitude, risk, spiritual, growth, and partnership) that are reliance on the decisions you make. Again, we will go into these in a separate post.
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