When it comes to striving to achieve success in anything we do, working on our weaknesses is not enough. Not only is it not enough, it’s actually a hindrance to reaching our true fullest potential. Focusing and working to improve our weaknesses is a hindrance in the sense that it takes our time and focus away on working on building and improving on our strengths instead. While trying to improve on our weaknesses seems like a noble and just cause to become more well rounded at whatever it is that we may be striving to be successful at, it is actually more productive and useful to improve and get better at the things that we are already good at or feel strong while doing them. By seeking to find your strengths and focusing on and improving them, we give ourselves the opportunity to excel in those more specific areas to get maximum results. If we only worked on overcoming our weakness, we might miss the chance to become great or an expert in an area where we would have an advantage because of it already being our strength.
Before we can take advantage of our strengths we need to find out what they are. There are various tools and methods to help us determine what our strengths are, from surveys to self assessments to gathering feedback from other people who know us well. These various types of assessments can be easily found with a little research and by finding one or even a combination of them that we can use to help find your strengths is where we want to start. We have to find what our true strengths are before we can leverage them. Once we know what our strengths are we can focus on improving, fine tuning and polishing those strengths. When we work on those things that are our most natural strengths, the more we will learn and the more we will grow and the more we will develop those strengths so that we can excel at achieving our goals. Because when we feel good while doing something it gives us the drive to continue doing it.
After the surveys, self assessments and feedback are done, nothing can happen without action. Unless we take the necessary action once you find your strengths, no amount of knowledge will bring results. Understanding and developing our strengths will also require us to increase our self awareness and discipline if we are going to change the direction of our lives. Imagine the fact that when we do the things we know we’re good at, the happier, more productive, and efficient we will be. That’s the one of the primary benefits of finding and developing our strengths as opposed to trying to fix our weaknesses. As we improve ourselves by focusing on our strengths, success is sure to follow.
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