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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Two Words that Activate Potential | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2015

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

What can you do between now and the end of the year to truly activate your potential and push the needle forward? I’d say there are two words that separate the people who achieve their potential and those who let it slip by them. Click the video to find out what they are and the moves you need to make, starting right now.

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People that underperform their potential,

0:04.0

underperform their potential,

0:06.0

versus people that seem to achieve more.

0:09.0

What's the difference?

0:10.0

You know, when I look back on, you know,

0:12.0

27, 28 years of coaching 35,000 hours

0:16.1

There's really just one thing that separates again people that under

0:20.0

Perform their potential not saying they're not doing well. They're just

0:23.8

underperforming their potential versus people that just seem to achieve at such

0:28.4

an extraordinary level and they don't make it look effortless. They're working

0:32.0

hard to make that happen, but they achieve their potential.

0:36.1

What's the difference?

0:37.1

What would you guess?

0:38.3

Discipline, mindset, skills.

0:41.6

I'm telling you right now, it's only two words personal responsibility.

0:46.2

That's it. People that underperformed their potential they don't take

0:50.4

personal responsibility. They they blame their management. They blame their management.

0:53.7

They blame their team leader.

0:55.0

They blame the government.

0:56.1

They say, it's somebody else's fault.

0:58.3

I don't feel good.

0:59.6

All these lists of things that they give all their power away to, that's why they

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