Stop obsessing about your shortcomings

Obsessedwith your

shortcomings?

Trying tofix them? You never will.

And you shouldn’t try...

Everybody has shortcomings.

They’re so easy to list.

Go ahead. List yours now.

Everybody has shortcomings.

Now toss the list out.

It’s just a distraction.

No oneever became

successfulby fixing their

shortcomings.

They became successful

by avoiding their shortcomings.

The wise Alf said it best.

“Find out whatyou don’t do well…and don’t do it.”

And management guruPeter Drucker

revealed the

strategy:

“Get your strengthstogether and make your weaknesses irrelevant.”

And management guruPeter Drucker

revealed the

strategy:

“Get your strengthstogether and make your weaknesses irrelevant.”

Over here. It’s all about your strengths, not your weaknesses.

Working on your weaknesses might

make you 10% better.

Working on your strengths could make you 10 times better!

10%

The most successful people are riddledwith weaknesses.

They just ignoredtheir weaknesses and used their strengths.

List yourstrengths.

Go ahead.We’ll wait.

Writer’s cramp?You’re one of the lucky people who can easily list your strengths.

Writer’s block?That’s more common. We seem to know our shortcomings better than our strengths.

Try asking others.

Friends.Mentors.Clients.

Associates.

Here’s another way.

Convene a strength-writing circle. You and two colleagues… all of whom who like and know each other well.

Here’s how it works.

Spend 15 minutes writing the strengths of the person on your right.

Here’s how it works.

Then 15 minutes more writing the strengths of the person on your left.

Here’s how it works.

Exchange papers. You’ll each have 2 lists of your strengths generated by people who know and care.

Ignore those shortcomings.

Zero in on your strengths.

Use them more often.

Polish them to a sheen.

Set goals to grow them.

Combine them for magic.

Stop obsessing about what you

can’t do.

Be obsessive about what you can do.