“Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses” Marilyn vos Savant
You could spend the next ten years working feverishly to eradicate your every weakness. But while you’re doing that, you won’t be using your strengths, which are the things that have the most potential to get you where you want to go.
It’s kind of like postponing a journey to build up your arms so you can walk on your hands. That’s great, I suppose, if it’s always been your dream to travel in such a manner, but if you just want to reach your destination and you have two good legs, why not use them and start walking?
People don’t want you to be perfect; they just want you to be good at something.
It’s far, far easier to be good at something when you’re drawing on your strengths instead of desperately working to fix yourself.
Do you know what others see in you? What do you see in yourself? Spend some time thinking about what you have instead of what you haven’t and see how far it takes you.
Use what you got. You’ll reach your destination a whole lot sooner.
Think, Draw, Write.
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You can take the VIA (Values in Action) survey from the field of positive psychology (the science of happiness and belonging) to help you find your signature strengths @ http://www.viasurvey.org/
I think I need to start paying you for all this advice b/c your entries always speak straight to me.
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I say it all the time. I write about what I need to hear.