Discover Your Strengths
In What You Love To Do

What activities do you love to do most? Discover your strengths by looking there first.

What activities make you crazy? Those may be your areas of weakness. Deal with them later.

Stop wasting time by focusing on your weaknesses...

A more sensible choice would be to develop your inherent talents. It could prove to be more productive and profitable for you.

At some point in your life, one or more of your inherent talents may have been dismissed by well-intentioned, but misinformed mentors. Their advice may have sounded like;

• get a real job, or
• that's a nice hobby, but it sure won't put money in your bank account.

Artists, creative writers, and dancers can relate to this. Can you?

What potential winning talents wait on your shelf for a rainy day?

Be persistent...

Thousands of highly successful people ignored the rules of conventional wisdom and discovered their strengths by persistently doing what they love to do.

They cultivated and nurtured their talents by learning as much as possible about them. They developed the skills necessary to achieve high performance levels using their talents.

And here's the best part. They thoroughly enjoyed the journey because it felt so right, so easy and so natural.

Copy the world's greatest managers...

The Gallup Organization conducted a 30 year systematic study of the world’s greatest managers and most talented employees to determine what they do to achieve such outstanding performance.

Results of their findings are published in the book, First, Break All The Rules, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

And in a second book, Now, Discover Your Strengths, by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, they revealed on page 7:

Most organizations are built on two flawed assumptions about people:

1. Each person can learn to be competent in almost anything, and
2. Each person’s greatest room for growth is in his or her area of greatest weakness.

Then on page 8…

These are two assumptions that guide the world’s best managers:

1. Each person’s talents are enduring and unique;
2. Each person’s greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strengths.

If you would like to know your top 5 strengths, your best source is their most recent book, by Tom Rath,

For the cost of purchasing this book, you are given a password to access and complete the FREE online StrengthsFinder Profile.

For a fee, you can obtain higher self knowledge by completing the entire profile and discover your strengths based on 34 themes.

Now that I know my top 5 strengths I understand many of the twists and turns my life has taken.

Jobs that utilized my inherent talents felt like Utopia. Those that did not, were like a living hell.

If your career, or lifestyle falls into the latter category, then start now and get the heck out of there.

Learn how to say NO to weakness focused managers…

Once you discover your strengths, the process of increasing your knowledge about them and developing your skills to use them, will empower you to take action.

More and more you will feel confident to encourage your boss to pay attention to your strengths rather than your weaknesses.

Proceed with prudence, patience and compassion.

But do proceed because you and your loved ones are worth the happiness you will create by doing what you love.

Your new assertive behavior may create feedback from business colleagues, friends and family - not all of it positive.

People who follow their dreams are often considered to be off the wall and even selfish.

Those who criticize are fearful of how your changes will affect them.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss

If your inherent talents and strengths are being denied in your current job, then clearly it is time for you to move on.

Tune into your intuition with regular meditation...

Successful people tune into their psychic intuition. If you are not loving what you do, and have a strong desire to do something else, then it is probably your innate wisdom trying to guide you.

Meditation is a powerful tool.

Your inherent talents may be screaming for attention - listen to your inner wisdom that speaks to you from your psychic intuition. It is never too late to learn how to meditate and discover your strengths and inherent talents.