Find your strengths

Welcome to Episode 5 and today I am talking about Finding Your Strengths and the importance of them in your business journey.

You need to find your strengths if you want to successfully design a business around who you are.

If you want the perfect fit that is?

If you don’t find those strengths and work with them instead of fighting against them, your work life will be a big struggle.

And who the heck wants that? Life is hard enough, right?

In modern life, positive psychology is all the rage and I don’t mind it at all in the right circumstances however, the quote that reads along the lines of...

Really isn’t helping people at all, because it makes people think hard work is all they need.

Unfortunately, no amount of effort makes you better at something you are not born to do or be despite any amount of passion for it.

Well, I learned something interesting from something on my bookshelf recently, and I found it a complete revelation.

What do you think about this as an alternative instead?

I thought it was genius!

Now, doesn’t that immediately make you feel better?

At last, not some advice to try harder at what you don’t like doing much and will always fail to master no matter how long or how hard you try.

I learned this from the lovely Marianne Cantwell, she has written a great book call Be A Free Range Human and she talks about how to get off the treadmill and become the person you really want to be with a career to match.

I absolutely love that way of looking at the world.

If you struggle to find your strengths, perhaps if you look at your perceived weakness instead, and flip your world view, you might find this approach more helpful.

Marianne explains it better.

She uses herself as an example when she was originally in  the world of corporate job land

“I changed career back in the job world.

I thought I had a huge weakness of constantly wanting to change how things were done.

I came up with new ideas all the time for how we could improve the status quo.

My boss wasn’t interested; he wanted me to focus on the job at hand, which had nothing to do with creating change.

My constant need to make things better and better – and never settling for average – was a weakness when I was supposed to keep things ticking over quietly.

Then, I changed my career into consultancy...

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