Realise your full potential with Christoph Schlick
Do you know what you are made of? Success in life – both professionally and privately – depends crucially on whether we realise our potential, that is, relying on our strengths instead of concentrating on our weaknesses. Those who know what they can do have powerful tools at their disposal to shape their lives and become creators of their reality rather than victims of life's circumstances.
What does it mean to have potential?
The term ‘potential’ refers to a person's strengths. These are partly disposition, partly learned abilities, and far too often remain undiscovered and unused. Yet there is much more to each of us than meets the eye. Everyone has their own ‘superpowers’, but these are often hidden under feelings of guilt, false beliefs, a lack of self-esteem or they cleverly disguise themselves as weaknesses that we blame ourselves for. Becoming aware of our strengths is the first step towards a life in which we are creators instead of just reacting to the outside world and failing because of apparent obstacles.
Knowing how to realise your potential is the basis for contentment and success – in relationships and in your private life as well as in your career. Conscious potential enables us to overcome setbacks and defeats. It helps us to keep an overview even in difficult situations and to stay in control of our present and future at all times.
Christoph Schlick – your potential developer
My name is Christoph Schlick and I use my potential to help people. I am constantly questioning and searching. My journey through life as a monk, husband, father and coach with 20 years of professional experience has made me what I am today: a potential developer who supports people like you in getting to know, developing and using your abilities, thus taking control of your life.
I will accompany you on your journey to get to know yourself even better, to develop your full potential and thus to bring more satisfaction and self-confidence into your actions and life – for self- determination, fulfilled relationships and success in your professional life.
How can I reach my full potential?
We can only use what we know. This applies in particular to our own abilities and strengths – which, incidentally, are often hidden behind our apparent weaknesses. At this point, a change of perspective is needed, a look at our blind spots. These are the aspects of our personality that everyone else recognises but that we ourselves cannot see, and therefore develop a correspondingly distorted self- perception.
Perhaps you recognise yourself in this example: you feel that you are always listening and rarely get the opportunity to be heard. This makes you feel unseen and unimportant. Being able to listen is a great skill! Start using it by actively shaping what you hear: by asking the right questions. And learn to say stop when your capacities are exhausted. Then the passive listener role becomes an active potential that you can use to get to know people better or even to make listening your profession.
Once you know your potential, it is only a small step to develop and use it.
What does it mean to realise your potential?
If you are able to realise your potential, you are capable of surpassing yourself, achieving seemingly impossible things and, last but not least, constantly developing. If you know your strengths, you are self-confident enough to break new ground, seize opportunities and overcome your own limitations. It always means leaving your comfort zone and making a new effort. Only then will you discover your true potential if you believe in yourself and are brave enough to take risks.
To do that, you need to change the image you have of yourself: from someone who reacts to circumstances and lets (apparent) limits stop them, to someone who shapes their own destiny, for whom limits are no more than milestones for their own further development and personal success.
Individual coaching to develop your potential
The core of my coaching to develop your potential lies in guiding you individually and empathetically to your strengths. My preferred tool is questions, which are not always comfortable, but always in your interest. My questions make you think and feel, they guide and accompany you on the way to the ‘superpowers’ that are also in you.
Our treasure hunt – and rest assured, we will find what we are looking for – starts with the obvious, with the strengths that you already know about. But are you already using them? We also search together where you never thought you would find anything and discover potential; perhaps in your often criticised lack of direction, which often conceals an insatiable curiosity, or perhaps in your lack of decision-making power, which is in fact an all-encompassing view and the resulting caution. Especially in the workplace, potential is quickly defined as weakness when unconscious behavioural patterns do not fit the task at hand.
Every coaching session with me begins with an initial meeting in which we get to know each other. Coaching requires trust on both sides, as well as mutual sympathy. We then find out what goals have brought you to me and where I can support you in developing and realising your potential. Once these goals have been clearly defined, the real work begins.
In several sessions, we will identify your strengths and how you and others can benefit from them. Realising your potential means bringing it into the world. We will reflect on your experiences and successes in your everyday life and strengthen your new self-image as a strong personality who knows what she can do and uses her full potential to improve the world for herself and others.
And probably the most important message I can give you: You don't have to radically change yourself to make a difference in your life and overcome limitations. What is crucial is that you know and use your potential. Often, only small adjustments are needed to steer your life and your success in the right direction.
Unleash your full potential with Christoph Schlick
I would be happy to accompany you on your journey towards a fulfilled life that you shape with your full potential. Take the first step now: arrange an initial consultation with me and together we will explore where your journey is headed.