Turn potential into something measurable.

Potential is a comfortable place to live because it never fails. As long as your ability stays unexpressed, it stays perfect, and nothing can happen to it. The moment it becomes a page, a product, a time on a clock, it becomes fallible and also real. That trade is the whole of growth: exchanging a flattering possibility for an imperfect fact you can improve.

Choose one area where you have been promising yourself capability and give it a number this week. Pages written, calls made, minutes practised. The number will probably be humbling at first, which is exactly what makes it useful.