Go With Your Strengths!

There's 20 seconds left in a tied ball game and your team is on the thirty yard line. It's the fourth down, your only hope is a field goal. Do you send in your field goal kicker who has already hit 3 out of three field goals or your second string tackle? Do you go with your strengths or take a chance? What would you do?

The answer of course is pretty obvious you go with your strengths and send in the field goal kicker. But how many of us do just the opposite. We constantly try to improve on our weaknesses and ignore our strengths. Any coach knows the only way to win is to identify each players strengths and use them in such a way that the team defeats it's opponents. You need to do the same. The game you're playing in is the games of life. If you want to win, be successful, happy and attract more of the things you want and less of the things you don't go with your strengths. Below are some steps you can take:

1. First identify what your strengths are: ask a friend, a spouse or your life coach.

2. Think about the things you do well and enjoy - selling, speaking, web design.

3. Develop a plan to develop your strengths - take a course, get some training, hire a coach, read a book, watch a DVD.

4. Figure out how your strengths can benefit your employer or increase your own business.

5. Use your strengths as an asset you can leverage with your employed. Or if you are an entrepreneur with your own business.

Now this is not to say that you completely forget about your weaknesses. If you need more training on computer programming then by all means take a course. What I am saying is that in today's market place going with your strengths is one of the best ways to stay in the lead.

The above tips should help you stand out in the crowd, so when the coach is looking for a star to put some points on the board he'll go to you to win the game!