What does living up to your fullest potential mean to you?

[Ataraxia]

What potential do you want to fulfill in your life?

[thatBrownCat]

To become a better person than yesterday. To continuously improve my life, and the way I live my life.

[El Exorcisto]

To live to my fullest potential is to gather up every demon I've acquired through my life and collectively smash them, ruthlessly. Every day I will be stronger, smarter, and capable of dealing with larger threats to myself and my family than I was yesterday. Every day I will grow to be a better, more nurturing father, giving as much as I can of my experiences to my daughter. I will teach anyone who cares everything I know. I will help provide my family with a better life than the life that either myself or my wife grew up through. I will never take silently the whispers of inferior men at my expense. These are the things I aspire to.

[hawgsquatch]

To me it means I am a Father. What is a Father? my definition is this.

 

I am a protector to those I love and those in need of protection.

 

I am a provider for my family, not only of funds, but of love and wisdom.

 

I am a teacher not a teller. I need to show my children how to act not just speak instructions.

 

I am a mentor for the best instructions are not lessons they are actions. Children learn from watching the interactions of their parents.

 

I am a leader, for leaders do not wait to be told what to do they use their wisdom and experience to forge ahead with action, if they fail, they try again.

 

I am honest so my words are not doubted, for they are truthful and can be counted on.

 

I come first. I am first to forgive, first to laugh, first to sacrifice, first to inspire, first to approve, first to compromise, first to praise, and first to negotiate.

 

IF I try my best to do these things daily, and IF I fail, I try again, I am a father and that is my fullest potential and most important purpose on this Earth.