Strength(s)

There is a lot of people who generally believe that we should focus and work hard on improving the areas in which we are not strong. Be that our organizing or strategic planning skills, our ability to think ahead, or manage and do administration well.

While there is merit in trying to improve one's abilities, (we all could do better in whatever we are doing) -to mainly focus on your weaknesses and aiming at improving them, will most certainly lead to a situation where you are quite average in everything!

Should we not rather focus on determining and developing our strengths?  -Without ignoring our weaknesses completely.  How will our lives look if we would spend most of our time building it around our God given abilities and talents?   Many of us do not know what out real strengths are.

Some are deluded by what we think our strength(s) should be.  Others are blinded by a false sense of humility that leads them to believe that one should never acknowledge the things that you are good at.  In the process many of us find ourselves doing things that we really are not good at. Many time we are either too proud, or just plainly too stupid to ask someone whose strength that particular ability is, to do it!

That is part of the whole team concept, (the direction that leadership seems to be moving) where like the different members of a body, each part fulfils a particular function that the other was not made, or equipped to do, but together they lead the body to be and do what it should effectively.

It is no use to spend time (like we sometimes do) worrying about who we're not and the abilities that we do not have. You should rather get to know who you áre and what you cán do and start living and working from that paradigm.

How would the world look like, if we all should focus and spend our time and energy to excel in the things that we are good at?  How would that impact the organization/s that you are functioning in?

What do you have to do and to whom do you have to talk, to determine what your particular strengths are? -a Strength is the ability you have to do certain things exceedingly well over time.

Just remember: "Strength is not for status, but for service."