So, what if you have been tracking the amount of time you spend on your Strengths and you find that there is a lot of room for improvement?
Well, you may wish to start with something that is the simplist and easiest for YOU to do. That is, pick one thing for work or school that you can easily add more time doing that is within the things you do well and enjoy doing and set a goal of spending one more hour a week doing that thing. On the other side, see if there is something you do not enjoy doing and see how you can spend 30 minutes less a week doing that (while still being effective in life). For example, could you pay someone else to do that thing, delegate it at work? What if you barter, you agree to do something for someone else who agrees to do that thing for you? Who knows, if you look closely, you may discover that you can get a system set up or automate a process so it no longer is something that you dislike so much, maybe with a system set up that works for you, it becomes something you do well and enjoy? Send your comments and discoveries to me...
Keep Creating a Better Life For Yourself, One Step at a Time...
Robb
Showing posts with label Strengths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Strengths. Show all posts
Monday, July 21, 2008
Thursday, July 3, 2008
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
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
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