I hope you all had a great April and wonderful first 4 months of this year. How time flies when we’re having fun and doing what we love☺ At least I hope you all are!

I was recently asked to write an article and since it was professional, after giving it some thought decided to write about how we sometimes struggle because we’re not always using our strengths.

We all have strengths and weaknesses, whether in business or in life and people often spend time attempting to bring their weakest areas up to the same level as their strengths. I really don’t encourage this; it’s not the best way to go!

When we focus on the areas that we consider our weakest, we often end up diluting our ability to play to our strengths, making it more challenging to achieve our goals and desires in life. Concentrate on playing to your strengths.

As a business and life coach its part of my job to brainstorm with clients to find out why they are not where they want to be, whether it’s professionally or personally. Often it’s because they are not focusing on what they are best at doing so I have them do a simple exercise in order for them to really see what areas they need to concentrate on.

Take a sheet of paper and divide into two columns. Head one column: My Strengths and the other column My Weakest Areas.

Don’t ask anyone else their opinion about your strengths, it’s important to be honest with yourself, after all you know yourself better than anyone else.

When you’ve completed both lists write down how many times each day you only play to your strengths. And, how many times you hold yourself back thing “I can’t do that,” or it takes more time to do something because you want to do it all!

One of my strengths is patience and seeing that there is a solution in any situation. One of my weaknesses is I don’t have great computer skills. I hand off everything I am not comfortable doing on the computer and focus on teaching people how to achieve what they want in life.

Once you can see these two areas fully, you have a choice. You can of course stay in the comfort zone you’re in and continue doing things the way you always have or you can start to really focus on all your strengths and delegate your weakest areas to others who have those characteristics as their strength. This way everyone wins.

Absolutely everything is a mindset. Every result you create in life comes from the way you think. You have a thought it creates a feeling, which creates an action that equals the result.

When we change our thinking we change our lives. Always remember change is inevitable, transformation is a choice.

Have a fantastic week. ‘Til next time
To Your Success and Brilliance

Hazel

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