Do you focus on your strengths or your
weaknesses? If you're like most people,
you focus a little bit on your strengths
and you focus way more attention on
your weaknesses so that you can bring
those up and then you become this
beautiful well rounded person. Well,
I was like that my entire life to the
point where if I would get feedback,
someone would say something complimentary
or nice or appreciative and I would
go, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's
get onto the meaty stuff.
AKA the things I needed to work
on, the problems that I had to fix.
So this was good in some ways,
in that I was constantly improving
and it was a growth mindset,
but it also was pretty unhealthy.
It would put me in the mindset that the
things that I was good at didn't matter
that much. And the things that
I wasn't good at mattered a lot.
And the fact that I wasn't
good at them was a big problem.
So I read this book called
StrengthsFinder 2.0,
there's an assessment with it. It's based
on the Clifton strengths philosophy.
And it is incredibly helpful.
And it changed my life. The
big difference here is that with
most let's call them personality
assessments or work assessments. You're
taking a look and you're going to say,
okay, well here's my strengths.
And my weaknesses StrengthsFinder
doesn't even give you your weaknesses.
And the reason is that the
philosophy is that you can
spend time working on your weaknesses,
but you're only going to get them
up probably to about average.
If you spend that same amount of
time working on your strengths,
there is no telling how effective and
impactful and how meaningful
those efforts can be in your
life and your business's
life and your company's life.
And in the lives of those around you.
I have started working in this philosophy,
I would say for the past three years.
And it has been a game changer for me.
It's been tremendously important
for a few different reasons.
So one is I am putting
energy where it matters.
I am sending energy, my brain, my
thoughts, my discussions, and my talk.
I'm putting all into these things
that I can impact and do well.
I can deliver on, I can help
elevate for other people.
So whatever my strength is,
whatever I'm talking about,
I get to bring something
to the table and help.
So that's a really important
one. Also, this is where again,
I have that potential to just
blow it out of the water.
So this not only is where
I'm putting that energy,
but this is where I get the results.
So we have energy and we have results.
And then for that third part,
the part where I am not as strong and
trust me, there are plenty of areas.
It makes me realize
that I have to get help
because if you're not strong
in everything, which I am
not strong in everything,
no one is that means
that I can't do it alone.
And so that means that I have to
start getting help. Okay, fantastic.
So I have to learn how to partner
with others, both on my team,
on different teams. Cross-functionally
I have to learn to delegate.
I have to learn to ask
my leaders for help.
All of those things are tremendous skills
that I have to learn how to build if
I'm going to work in my strengths
and it has paid off in dividends.
So I want to know, are you
working in your strengths?
Have you thought about this before?
Do you feel more comfortable working
on your strengths or your weaknesses?
Tell me, I'm desperate to know.
