Strength comes from within and it requires a person to be actively in pursuit of it. You will never get stronger sitting around waiting for strength to find you. So how do I get set up to strengthen myself. First off, realize that you already have many strengths and that some of them you have yet to realize you have, because you have never yet been put in a situation where you need to use it. Each and every time you use an attribute that you have, it is like pumping a muscle, and it becomes stronger. I said earlier that it is not the weights in the gym that make you stronger, but it is the resistance they produce that make the muscles stronger. You don’t even need to use weights to become stronger, you just need to exercise and stretch the muscles regularly and they will grow.

Other than the frequency of use of attributes we have, how else can we grow and strengthen ourselves? We can grow through education. If you are not as adept at a skill that you feel that you need, learn it. Our minds are very powerful, in fact scientists say that we only use less that ten percent of our brains ability, so we have a tremendous capability to learn.

Take a class, sign up for a webinar, read a book on the subject. There are myriad ways to gain knowledge. Zig Ziglar refers to something as “Automobile University,” using the amount of time we spend in a car each and every day as an opportunity to listen to books on tape, or podcasts. There is virtually a podcast available on any subject to day. Audible is another great tool to aid in your degree from Automobile University.

Experience, if you know someone that is good at what you want to improve on, ask them if you could assist them, kind of learn the ropes from them. Sometimes life is not always the best teacher because often the test is given first and the lesson is learned later. I have said that “We all learn by making mistakes, but we tend to learn much faster if the mistake hurts.” On that note remember that you don’t have to make every mistake yourself, you don’t have to be Consumer Reports for the clumsy. If some one tells you that the stove is hot, believe them and save your self the pain of experiencing it firsthand.