Welcome to the
Maximum Potential Project
The latest and best research-based tools for overcoming fear of success, fear of failure and adult underachievement.
By using simple, intriguing step-by-step exercises thirty minutes a day for a month, you can achieve more than you formerly believed possible. By using additional tools for two more months, you can permanently lock in gains that permanently break you out of your current plateau to the life satisfaction you long for.
Fear of failure prompts us to duck out on challenges, pull back effort and quit. Fear of success prompt us to procrastinate, stay frozen and make excuses for mediocre results because we fear that we won't live up to demands and expectations. Both lead to adult underachievement—doing way less with our abilities than we know we could. And self-attack and energy-sapping mood swings follow.
It doesn't have to be this way. You can overcome fear of failure. You can end fear of success. You can stop adult underachievement. And in the process, you make good on your talent, achieve solid accomplishments and stop feeling like a fraud. As a bonus, you improve relationships and financial wellbeing.
Look, to change you have to get real. If you've been stuck for a while, you can't afford to lose more time. You can’t wait for inspiration or for something to happen.
Instead you need to get up and running now. But if you have made promises to yourself before, and started with enthusiasm, then lost your way, you may be skeptical of trying again.
Don't think for a second your situation is terminal. Over the last twenty-one years thousands of people just like you have used the methods here to achieve lasting changes, even after giving up hope.
You probably already know, though, that pep talks, temporary motivational highs, and woo-woo don’t get it done. Getting where you want to go involves the work of making changes.
But get this: you don't have to change who you are. It's not who you are that's the problem. It's what you do. Or perhaps what you don't do. To achieve what you want, you need only a clear plan combined with action. With this you build a platform of skills, one by one, that supports your move forward.
Now before you say, "that's not me", understand that you can build that platform. It takes effort, but less than you think.
Luckily, there is both a science to change and specific methods for building skills you need.
Over the last forty years psychology has come up with precise answers as to exactly how people go about making big lasting changes. It's a formula. And it's always the same. You get real, get ready, get going, and then lock in gains.
Learn exactly how the formula works and how to take advantage of it. I spell it out for you in exactly the form you need it: Simple. Clear. Unambiguous. Immediate.
By using the formula, you avoid losing time going down blind alleys. You also save yourself having to watch people less talented than you achieve successes and reach life markers that you envy, even if secretly.
And if you fear you lack motivation, forget it. Anyone who knows how to read, write, and use the Internet has enough motivation. In fact, it takes more effortto sit on your talent than it does to fulfill it.
Learn how to unlock the talent you already have. It is deeply satisfying to do so. Besides, it gets pretty embarrassing not to. The longer you don't do it, the less people cut you slack, and the less you believeyou can do it.
Good news: what you need to get started is here and absolutely FREE. There's FREEcoaching videos, a major FREE in depth training video, FREE articles, and a FREE monthly newsletter, Defying Gravity, (a must if you are serious about receiving fresh, immediately doable strategies monthly for moving beyond merely the next level). All are filled with practical, no-nonsense methods for accomplishing what YOU want to accomplish.
AND HERE IS WHAT SETS THIS SITE APART FURTHER: FREE software. OnTask 2.0, a FREE electronic workbook that takes you step-by-step through tasks and exercises that will get you achieving more without delay.
AND STILL MORE: OnTask 2.0 itself is linked to the coaching videos mentioned above. So you can view them without having to leave OnTask 2.0. These videos, related to the 15 Tasks from Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult Underachievement, are available to watch any time you want, as many times as you want, FREE.
But FREE is only worthwhile when what's offered is substantial and provides real solutions to problems.
Rest assured, the information here takes care of you on that score. It applies research-proven methods to resolve fear of failure, fear of success (which is often fear of increased expectations and demands if you succeed), and adult underachievement.
Leave behind indecision, false starts, getting excited and then disappointed, and hopscotching from one thing to another without accomplishing anything substantial.
You'll find specific tools—tools already used by thousands of people to replace self-limiting habits and end adult underachievement. 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.
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?
Start viewing the videos here.
Download OnTask 2.0 here.
Find out about, and subscribe to, Defying Gravity here.
There's enough FREE stuff at maxpotential.com that you may find a lot of what 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 Beyond the Basics coaching videos are available at modest subscription prices. And if you are even more serious about achieving, investigate Mentoring and Maximum Potential Coaching options on the Main Menu. And for even more impact, check out the training videos available.
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This site exists to provide the tools you need for the changes YOU want.