Focus on your Strengths

Alas! It's resolution season. Before you get caught in the excitement of all the changes you're going to make, let me offer this bit of advice to you... Focus on your strengths. I recently read a book titled Strengths Finder 2.0. It is a book about enhancing one's individual strengths rather than focusing on our weaknesses. In a culture that is obscenely focused on improving your weaknesses, this book purports that by focusing on one's strengths, we are happier and better aligned to be successful. The book gives the examples of Rudy Ruettiger from Notre Dame (full of hard work, but very little football talent) and Joe Nameth (full of hard work, full of football talent). The difference in career outcomes between Rudy and Joe is a great example of placing your efforts in areas where you are naturally strong. Further, the book directs you to an online strengths test where you will find out your top 5 strengths and how they can best be used for success.

Once you've read the book and have taken the online assessment, please let me know what you think. Do you agree or disagree with your results? How will you use them to make decisions in the future. Please let me know. I'd love to hear.

All the best,

Andrea