Self awareness, is the only wish I have.

What if we all accepted our strengths and our weaknesses? How would the world be like if we appreciated what we were great at and what we sucked at? I have been asking myself these questions over and over again because knowing what your strengths and weaknesses are important and its definitely going to allow you to use your time to become greater at your strengths.

We have been told over and over again that we should strengthen our weaknesses… I extremely disagree with this statement. Why would you invest time and energy into something that you suck at? Why? To lift your ego in to another level? I understand that society has dented the way we look at our strengths and weaknesses; we are told to become better at things we can’t do. It’s not because we haven’t tried, it’s because we are aware of our values and our human capabilities don’t lie there.

It’s hard to accept the fact that you completely and utterly suck at a certain projects, tasks or even a sport(s) game(s). It took me years to understand this myself, but when I came to the realisation that I am not here to achieve everything or to be able to do everything. I started focussing on leverage. Now, if you are new to this topic please focus. Finding how to use my weaknesses as a gold mine has helped me become a better networker.

Yes, you can use your weaknesses to build relationships. I mean, there are seven billion people in this planet – you are one of them. Your strengths are other people’s weaknesses, and your weaknesses are other people’s strengths. So, are you getting the picture here? We can use our weaknesses to connect with people who can do, what we cannot do.

“You can do what I cannot do. I can do what you cannot do. Together we can do great things.” – Mother Teresa

Stop letting your weaknesses bring you down. How boring would it be if we were ALL here to do everything? What would the world be like? Wouldn’t we just be an identical twin – or should I say a “robot”? We are all different, we are all here to achieve a greater existence with our own strengths and use our weaknesses to create amazing relationships, we can leverage off.

So, this is the time where you appreciate your humanity. Your gifts. Your strengths. Your weaknesses.

You’re a special kind of human, never forget that.