The tools you need for the changes you want

If you want to achieve more, you've come to the right place.  

At maxpotential.com you're going to find tools for:

1) saying goodbye to falling behind, or worse, just plain flatlining
2) escaping regret, disappointment and energy-sapping mood swings,
3) achieving satisfying accomplishments, fulfilling relationships, and the financial security that may seem to always remain just out of reach.

Good news:  a lot of what's on this site is absolutely FREE — FREE coaching videos, FREE articles, a FREE monthly newsletter, Defying Gravity, (a must if you are serious about receiving fresh, immediately doable strategies monthly for moving beyond the next level), and coming soon, FREE recorded interviews and talks.  All are filled with practical, no-nonsense methods for leaving behind "if only" and accomplishing what YOU want to accomplish.

AND WHAT SETS THIS SITE APART FURTHER:  OnTask 2.0, the FREE electronic workbook that takes you step-by-step through tasks and exercises that will get you started toward achieving more without delay.

AND STILL MORE:  OnTask 2.0 itself is linked to all but three of the 23 FREE coaching videos mentioned above.  These videos, related to the 15 Tasks in OnTask 2.0, that move you beyond drifting and coasting, are available to watch any time you want, as many times as you want, for FREE.

But FREE is only worthwhile if the content offered is substantial and actually provides real solutions to the problems you want to solve.

Rest assured, the information here takes care of you on that score.  It applies research-proven methods for resolving the kinds of stuff that keeps many people stuck, like self-doubt, fear of failure, fear of increased expectations and demands if you succeed, indecision, false starts, and hopscotching from one thing to another without really accomplishing anything substantial.  

You'll find specific tools—tools already used by thousands of people to replace self-limiting habits. And they are combined with solid information to move you toward making good on the talent you have, but have never really tapped.  

Self-limiting habits?  Yeah, you know, little things like letting distractions take you off course, running and rerunning thought loops that make you fear failure, avoid risks and finally decide it's better to cut your losses and settle for less.

Look, let's get real.  If you are stuck, you need to know how and where to put your focus to get real results.  And that requires more than pep talks, temporary motivational highs,  or woo-woo.  It involves making changes.  

Luckily, there is a science to change based on more than a hundred years of reliable research.  You can take advantage of that science.  It's available here and in exactly the form you need it. Simple.  Clear.  Unambiguous.  Immediate.

And by using it, you can avoid wasting any more time going down blind alleys or watching people less talented than you achieve successes and reach life markers that you secretly envy. 

Now what also limits some people is a lack of fundamental skills, like persistence and consistency, which for some reason they never acquired.  Well, there's help for them too.  Research has discovered precise formulas for building such skills.  

Make no mistake about it.  To achieve more, you must have a solid platform of these skills—what I call Master Skills—no matter what endeavor you choose.

But if you are afraid you lack motivation, forget it.  Anyone who pursues what he or she really wants has all the motivation needed.  In fact, it actually takes more effort to sit on your talent and avoid committing yourself than it does to start fulfiling your potential. 

You merely have to unlock that talent.  Besides, it becomes pretty embarrassing not to.  And the longer you go on not doing it, the less people cut you slack.  And the less you believe you can unlock that talent.  

So if you have talent and you're stalled, or achieving well, but know you haven't begun to tap all you have going for you, there are methods here to power you to new levels of personally meaningful success.

Want to get started?

The passkey is here.  The work is doable.

Start viewing the videos here.

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Find out about, and subscribe to, Defying Gravity here.

There's enough FREE stuff at maxpotential.com that you may find everything you need with the FREE materials alone.

BUT if you are the kind of person who wants every edge—all the information, tips, and suggestions you can get, 32 additional coaching videos are available at modest subscription prices.  And if you are even more serious about achieving, go to Tools for Staying On Task, where you can investigate mentoring options and check out what else is available.  New resources are added regularly.

Look around, get connected and come back often. 

This site exists to provide the tools you need for the changes YOU want.

About Ken Christian

Kenneth W. Christian, Ph. D., is a licensed psychologist whose sole focus for the last twenty years has been helping individuals, parents, educators and organizations and their leaders remove limitations and maximize potential.

In 1990 he founded the Maximum Potential Project and in 2002 published Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult Underachievement, ReganBooks, HarperCollins, 2002, (paperback 2004). He has also authored, with Dianne Hales, An Invitation to Personal Change, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2009 and more than 50 articles. His work has been cited in Psychology Today, the Financial Times, Selling Power, Investors Business Daily and the Dallas Morning News, among others.

Ken has been a university professor, private practice clinician, speaker, organizational consultant and program developer and has worked with incarcerated juveniles. His team-building experience began as team leader of a multi-racial, multi-cultural, six-member team of community paraprofessionals (the team quickly became the highest-rated in the nation on all measures of performance related to goals); and later as coach for one season to his then ten-year-old daughter's softball team (which went all the way to the league championship game and unfortunately lost due to tragically impaired umpiring.)

Through mentoring, training, and writing, Ken shares his passion, knowledge, and experience with organizations worldwide. He lived in Paris from 1999 to 2002, speaks French, and, with sufficient accompanying hand gestures, can find a good restaurant in Spanish.

Books

Ken is author of Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult Underachievement, the book that for the first time identifies adult habits of underachievement. Available in paperback as well as hardcover, YOWE has been translated into five foreign languages.

If you want to achieve more, this is the definitive guide. Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult Underachievement, identifies habits and beliefs that limit achievement and shows how to replace them. Using case studies and self-assessment tools, it provides 15 Tasks that teach high-potential people to reach goals that match their talents.

While Your Own Worst Enemy teems with practical suggestions for so-called underachievers, it is an invaluable guide for anyone who wishes to achieve more.

Ken is also co-author, with Dianne Hales, of An Invitation to Personal Change, a suite of three brief volumes including introductory text, a book of 25 personal change labs, and a personal change journal.

A few frequently-asked questions about how we change:

Doesn't change require personal qualities that I either have or don't have?

As a human being, you already have all the qualities you need to change, or our species would not have survived. Humans adapt. Moreover, high-potential people are often far more adaptable than most people.

Concretely, you adapt your schedules to changing events, make appointments, set dates, keep engagements, and remember to do things. These are the skills required to change, you only need employ them properly and consistently. You have the capacities and strength you need; you have only to use them in the right manner.

Won't changing self-limiting patterns require special insight or some fundamental change in my personality?

Changing self-limiting patterns requires nothing fancy. It does not depend on a burst of insight or personality change, but proceeds instead from something less glamorous and extremely commonplace. It comes from observing and developing new skills, something you have done all your life. You observe habits that have blocked your success, and then you go about replacing them with new more skilled ones. You make progress when you change what you do, not by trying to change who you are.

Aren't there some things that some people just can't change?

Undoubtedly, there are things you cannot change, like the problem of being unable to fly by flapping your arms furiously—but more typically, what you think you cannot do is something you simply have not done previously.

Everything you do now was once something you could not do. Talent and familiarity make some things easier than others--but if youbreak down the changes you want to make into discrete, manageable steps, you can repeat those steps until you master any goal.