{"id":235,"date":"2022-08-31T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2022-08-31T08:09:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:09:11","slug":"potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/31\/potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following on from my last blog entry on change, let\u2019s look at potential. There can be a range of associated emotions that we feel when the word \u2018potential\u2019 is used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opportunity, excitement, achievement&nbsp;or&nbsp;pressure, expectation, change<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which category do you fall into? Perhaps it\u2019s a bit of both. For me, the thing that bridges these two perceptions is \u2018challenge\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Marianne Williamson<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We are the greatest barriers to accessing our own potential. Overcoming the challenges of opportunity, pressure, passion and expectation require \u2013 above all else \u2013 belief. Belief that the resources and resilience to rise up either exist within already or will awaken by the process of challenging ourselves to become version of ourselves we wish to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is essential to understand that potential is about you \u2013 how you relate to yourself as you are now and who you want to become. It is NOT about weighty expectations of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Potential can be as big as your biggest dream or as everyday as watching the sunset while considering the potential of tomorrow\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from my last blog entry on change, let\u2019s look at potential. There can be a range of associated emotions that we feel when the word \u2018potential\u2019 is used. Opportunity, excitement, achievement&nbsp;or&nbsp;pressure, expectation, change Which category do you fall into? Perhaps it\u2019s a bit of both. For me, the thing that bridges these two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}