Focus on Your Strengths, Manage Your Weaknesses through Delegation and Leveraging!

Why do we emphasis on focus on your strengths instead of working on to develop on your weaknesses? The reason is simple. We only have 24 hours per day. And out of the 24 hours, we only have a few hours to ourselves to work on personal development, and sometimes we can’t even get a time in a day to do so. And because of that, we need to prioritize – question being what will you prioritize? Developing your strengths or developing your weaknesses?

There are 2 individuals who inspired to become the top NBA basketball players. Both can play basketball well: one is really good in it and has natural talent in basketball. The other one is just an average player. With the same training, the one with the natural talent will continue to excel faster in basketball better than the average player. The average player may achieve the level of the player with natural talent given more times/resources, but the achievement is nonguaranteed.

And the best part is --- you will be very motivated to be excelled and be a better person. Why? First, when you are good in it, you know it. As the skill improved, you know it, and you see the results. Knowing you can be better and be the best and know that you have the x-factor, which no one else can have, will continue to keep you motivated and inspired to be the best! People tend to work at their best when they know you can be the best! So, focus on your strengths and make the best of your strengths.

So how about your weaknesses? Well, first you need to know what your weaknesses are and assess if it is a pitfall to your life or career goal. If not, then you need to learn to manage it and to work around the weaknesses.

1) Build personal support system. Surround yourself with people who are good in areas of your weaknesses. Leverage them to fill the gap of your weaknesses.

2) Use the technology and tool to help and simply the processes

3) Hire helps, even external consultants to help you to manage it.

There are couples of good resources /books/tools out there to help to identify your strengths and develop it.

1) Soar with your strengths by Donald Clifton "the grandfather of positive psychology"

2) Now, Discover your Strengths (by Marcus Buckingham, Clifton)

3) Break All Rules (by Marcus Buckingham)

4) Strength Finder 2.0 (by Tom Rath)

5) How full is your bucket (by Tom Rath)

We have personally try Strength Finder 2.0, a continuous version from Now, discover your strengths, and find it an excellence tool to assess your strengths. We recommend it – a very good book/tool. The book lists out 34 talents elements which are categorized into Achiever, Activator, Empathy, Futuristic, or Strategic. So how you assess it – simply by buying the “Strength finders 2.0”, and the book contains a unique identification numbers which allows you to access Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 which analyzes your instinctive reactions and present you with the assessment of your top 5 strengths.

Happy discovering, remember focus on your strengths not your weaknesses!

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