Identifying and Using Your Strengths to Excel

A common practice of most people is to try and improve their weaknesses rather than focus on their strengths. The problem is they never fully develop their strengths. Think of all the great athletes and other notable people who excel in a specific area of interest. Do you think these people developed their strengths?

You bet they did, many people focus more on their weaknesses believing that will make them better overall. The problem is they disregard their strengths and as a result fail to recognize them. They will never develop that strength into greatness.

Many professional athletes chose to focus on their strengths and as a result truly excel in what they do. Since they work on developing their strengths they didn't spend as much time on their weaknesses and may be terrible at other things including other sports.

A strength can be anything, and once you can properly identify a strength you have only then can you improve upon it. If your strength that you chose to develop can help you to excel pass the normal person and if you use that strength to your advantage you will have enormous success.

First you must properly identify your strengths. This is hard for most people because of the fact that it's human nature to focus on improving our weaknesses. I myself had a hard time identifying my strengths, I had to do some heavy thinking and research before I was completely aware of my strengths. One helpful article is finding your key strengths from the book share blog.

The site features what they call common themes of strength such as Achiever, Developer, Intellection and many others with explanations of each. You simply choose the top five that describe you best from the list of 34 and those could be your strengths. The themes focus heavily on your personality.

You could also have strengths not mention on that site. You may want to consider your past experiences, what were you really good at in the past? What can really easy for you why others struggled? There are many other questions you could ask yourself as you can imagine.

You may consider writing a list of possible strengths each day and after a month you could see which strengths came up the most and you may decide those are your biggest strengths.

So now that you have your strengths you need to develop a way to use those strengths to your advantage. This could take some heavy thinking on your part as many strengths are hard to apply to our advantage.

Some are easier than others. The point is think of a way to integrate your strengths into a job that you do. If my strength was competition I would identify the top competitor and keep a close eye on their performance. That would allow me to use my competitive strength to work harder than that competitor and everyone else.

As you are probably aware by now this can be very powerful if you can correctly identify and implement your strengths. I myself have dramatically improved many areas of my life by doing this one process alone. The better you are at using your strengths the more success you will ultimately have.