Know Your Strengths

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Earlier, I asked you to think about and write down your top ten strengths, Why? Because we all have strengths that are unique to us and only us. You are the only person that is, ever has been, or ever will be, equipped with the unique knowledge, talents, strengths, experiences, and thoughts that you have. I think back to a poster I saw many years ago that said, tongue in cheek, “You are truly unique, just like everyone else.” That statement when thought of in the context I described above is actually very true, we are all unique. This is something that we can be proud of and understand that it is a strength that we develop over our life time of living. By understanding what your strengths are, you can use them to help define who you are but also it builds your self-confidence. Strengths comes from confidence in yourself, how you make decisions, what your talents and abilities are, and how you react and respond to challenges that you face. Strength is an attribute must come from within yourself, you can’t gain strength form outside influences. Big muscles don’t come from heavy weights, it comes from the resistance and use of the muscles working to lift them.

 

If you haven’t listed your top ten strengths earlier, now would be a great time to do so. Remember that by identifying our strengths it is done to help us identify who we are not to become arrogant or boastful. If you did write them out earlier, now would be a good time to look at them again and reminder yourself of the strengths you do have.

 

 

Now that we have a list of our personal strengths that we own, let’s take a look at how we can better “know” our strengths.

Mapping Your Journey–You Need to “Know” your Way

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Introduction

We have all heard that, “Life is a Journey,” and that, “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” It would be nice if that was all that there is to life and it could be defined as simply as this. Life may well be a journey that begins at our conception and ends with our death, but beyond that, there is very little about it that is simple.

 

The intention of this blog is to help guide you with some observations that you may find useful as you travel the road of life. Nothing that occurs to us over the course of living is non-beneficial to our development and every experience builds the person that we evolve into.

 

We all have a definite need to understand what we have to “know” to make our lives the fullest and most productive that we can. As you read each post, I will help guide you through the individual “knows,” that should provoke some insightful thoughts and ideas that you can put to use to make your journey eventful, memorable, and hopefully the most enjoyable as possible. In each entry, we will explore a distinct “know” and look at each “know” as a tool that you can put to use in your personal lives.

 

As you read through the posts of this blog, keep your mind open to deeper thought and open mindedness. Growth cannot happen until you step out of your comfort zone and we will explore many ideas that I hope will bring you to the point of growth. We are going to explore ourselves, through understanding our values, beliefs, and morals. We will then take a look at how our thoughts influence our mindsets. We all have unique strengths and we will see how to put them to use in making our lives better. Each of us have limitations and I will provide you with some thoughts on how to deal with them. We will take a look also at our fears and turn them from worries into useful actions. We will explore where we are in life and where we are headed. Once we have an understanding of where we are we will determine where we want to go. Knowledge is a tool that we obtain slowly over time and we will spend some time understanding the stuff we need to know. Time is an ever fading asset and we will explore some thoughts and tools to make the most of the time you have. We all have friends, some good, some not so good, what friends do you have and what type should you seek and which ones should you limit your time with. A destination will never be reached unless we keep moving and motivation builds momentum. What can we do to keep ourselves moving? And finally, what happens when things don’t go as planned, we will define what is as what isn’t a failure.

 

It is my heartfelt desire that you can use some of the ideas presented to assist you in your distinct, unique, and highly individual journey. Lace up your boots and let’s begin.