Kinetic energy is energy in motion – anything moving. However, when a person or object is at rest, it has potential energy. For example, a rock on top of a cliff that could fall: before it falls, it has potential energy. During its fall, it has kinetic energy.
Think about you as a human being. Each of us has tremendous potential energy – both in terms of physics and metaphorically. Your energy – the potential to literally “move” your life – is phenomenal and, at least theoretically – virtually unlimited.
What is your potential energy as a person who improves your life? As a contributor to others? As a provider of useful goods and services? As a teacher or a student whether in or out of formal school? Think about your potential as energy like all the rocks on top of a cliff and how vast that potential energy is.
How can you convert your potential energy into the best possible motion? Where have you been limiting your potential energy? What are the rewards for releasing it?