Strengths: How much time do you spend with your strengths?

Strengths – It is so important to spend time using and developing our strengths….when I speak about strengths I realize there are at least two key categories of strengths. There are things we are good at, which may or may not come easily, and which we may or may not enjoy using. Today I am talking about those things we do really well and we enjoy doing them…whether it is important as to how easy or difficult it is for us to use them does not matter to me at the moment. If we enjoy them and are good at them, then, in my opinion, we should spend the majority of our time getting even better at them. Also, as much as possible, we should spend the minimum amount of time we can on the things we do not enjoy and/or do not do well (at least so much as we are still be effective and successful in life). Spending as much the majority of our time, energy and focus doing things that we do well and enjoy is a worthy and important goal in life.

Suggestion….for a week set a timer to go off once an hour, when the timer goes off, write down a quick estimate of what amount of your hour you spent on using the skills you love to use and do that for your waking day, each day for a week. If your weeks vary a lot, you may want to extend this discovery process for a month. Then come back to this blog, and we will explore what to do with the information you discover. Send me an email with what you find.

Happy Hunting.
Robb