Want to know why you’re not AMAZING? One reason. You don’t know your strengths!I know, I know. I didn’t say that very nicely. I didn’t cushion the claim with cozy caveats. I didn’t pad the truth with polite pleasantries. Sorry! NOT!
Don’t take my word for it, Peter Drucker, preeminent management consultant and author, wrote, “Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.”
Now I know that you are not like most Americans. You are certainly a cut above. Right? And yet, the research shows that most leaders (even competent, successful executives and entrepreneurs like you) don’t really know their strengths.
Sure, they have some familiarity with their gifts, talents and abilities—that is why they are successful. That is why YOU are successful. But they have yet to deeply unearth the core of their strengths. More importantly, they have certainly not built their lives and their enterprises around them. Have YOU?
I’ll say it again. You’re not amazing because you don’t know your strengths! I’m not trying to be mean. You simply don’t know, know (as in really know) your strengths. Yes, you’re good with people. Yes, you’re a hard worker. Yes, you’re successful. Yes, you’re getting it done. Yes, you’ve made it happen.
But, no, you’re not amazing!
Amazing happens when you’re performing intuitively from your innate strengths. Amazing happens when your entire life flows from your strengths. Want to get in your groove? Want to live from your gut? Want to operate from your center? Want to find your purpose? Want to discover your calling? Want to gift the world with heart-stirring, mind-blowing, awe-inspiring goodness? Discover your strengths. Develop your strengths. Refine your strengths. Unleash your strengths. Be AMAZING!