At any given moment in time, there’s a range of behaviors you can perform.
I call this your behavioral repertoire.
Here’s an example that will help you visualize what I mean:
As you are seated/lying down in your bedroom, reading these words, you can decide to stand up and touch the wall closest to you. The probability of this happening is high, right?
Do you also know that you are capable of touching the ceiling with your feet?
But the probability of that behavior happening is very low. As a result, that behavior is collapsed within your repertoire. That’s why you probably can’t recall a time when you placed your feet on the ceiling in your room, even though it is something that is possible.
Now, let’s assume someone brings a double-bunk bed to your room and asked you to sleep on the top bunk. What would happen to the probability of you putting your feet on the ceiling (if you choose to)?
It will increase dramatically!
In life, some behaviors in your repertoire will bring you closer to your destiny, while others will collapse opportunities, thus taking you away from the destination God had prepared for you from the foundations of the world.
And still, some behaviors in your repertoire will never be expressed unless there are enabling factors in your immediate environment.
Here’s the wisdom in the paradigm:
- Amplify those behaviors that will bring you closer to the fulfillment of your potential.
- Extinguish those that will take you away from destiny.
- Stay sensitive to discern whether a change is necessary in your environment for the right behaviors to be expressed.