FOCUS ON YOUR STRENGTH! FOCUS ON YOUR STRENGTH! FOCUS ON YOUR STRENGTH!
I believe that focusing on your strengths are absolutely vital to your success. In fact, if you don't focus on your strengths, you're likely to focus on your weakness and end up producing "more of the same" from the past. Acknowledging your strong points are important for building your confidence, creating an optimistic outlook in life and visualizing what's possible. YOU CAN NOT SUCCEED IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR STRENGTHS!!! Unfortunately, the people who con you out of $$$lump sums$$$ of money, acknowledge and focus on their ability to LIE as their STRENGTH, when in fact is is their ability to see a goal, relate to people, and communicate in such a way as to captivate, even hypnotize you to produce their desired outcome. Part of what makes them successful at it is their confidence. They KNOW Their STRENGTH! My question to you is: DO YOU KNOW YOUR STRENGTHS?
What are they? Take some time and list those strengths and why you believe they are strengths. Do other people notice these same traits about you? How many times have you been complimented on that same skill, habit, practice or way of being? List it down and make note of it. It's not vain to acknowledge and list your strengths, it's vain to think that ALL YOU ARE IS YOUR STRENGTHS... *laughing* THEN, you have a Problem! In fact, Your strengths must parallel some weaknesses that you possess. In fact, NOT KNOWING YOUR WEAKNESSES CAN BE MORE DANGEROUS THAN NOT KNOWING YOUR STRENGTHS. One colleague of mine and I were having a conversation regarding rights and wrongs. He ended the conversation saying "I may not be perfect, but I figure if I stop doing what I know NOT to do, I will be much closer to doing what I NEED to do." As paradox and backwards the statement was, it was a totally sound argument.
An example: In New York, we have beautiful asphalted streets that endure multiple weather conditions. However, when it rains, these same streets that can hold hundreds and thousands of tons per day seem to melt like ice on a hot frying pan and creates what we call "potholes" - these mini-ditches and puddles of holes that vary in depth and width. Some Potholes can potentially damage and destroy a car's tires or muffler system if a driver isn't careful to look out for the holes. These "holes" from falling rain are metaphorically equivalent to our "holes" aka Weaknesses. Sometimes, due to circumstances and victimization, we harbor fears, habits, attitudes, behaviors and practices that sabotage any success we obtain. Without acknowledging and KNOWING OUR WEAKNESSES, we are walking around with confidence in STRENGTHS that become our enemies when we fall into the "holes" we overlook. These weaknesses/holes can crush us if we aren't aware of them and knowledgeable on how to maneuver around or through them. WE MUST KNOW OUR WEAKNESSES because they are HOLES in our Person, our character, our way of being that can snatch away our joy in an instant. If You Don't See The Holes, You Will Fall Into Them. and you cannot afford to keep falling all the time or something will break.
Knowing your weakness is not a weakness, but an upperhand. It is your opportunity to create strength through new habits, new routines, new attitudes and ways of being. The fact is, if you FOCUS ON YOUR WEAKNESS, you become a person addicted to what they are not and eventually practice self-sabotage in all areas of life where success is possible. If you FOCUS ON YOUR STRENGTH, you become a person that develops a high level of confidence and security that can make or break you (if you don't know what your weak areas are). Create balance for yourself by being willing to vulnerably examine what you're NOT good at. It isn't threatening as soon as you have the resolve to acknowledge and build yourself in that area.
FOCUS ON YOUR STRENGTHS
KNOW YOUR WEAKNESSES
and
Be the Balance that your life needs, now.
signing off,
The Motivator
MarcArthur St. Juste
