Keep it Real

It’s easy for some people to give in, deny, give up. There are people that quit too early and then there are those that don’t even bother to try. Some rely on excuses, and then some just don’t bother to even get started. Some just give in to their weaknesses.

Do Your Weaknesses Matter?

 You can be successful based on what you know and can do rather than trying to be good at things you’re not naturally good at. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t improve or develop weaknesses, or even delegate them to someone else, it just means you don’t need to give your weaknesses as much attention as you may think. You can instead focus on working from a place of strength.

 Understand the Truth

 Make choices based on what is, not what might be, or what you think it will be in a few months. Instead, make your choices based on now. Now, what are your strengths? Now, what can you do? This gives you an opportunity to realize what you can’t do, or that your weaknesses really don’t matter. Success is based on who you are and what you know right now, not what you don’t know.

 For example, if a student who wants to be a surgeon thought they should know everything about that profession before starting school, they would fail on day one. Instead, a smart student focuses on what they know and their skill set. Perhaps the medical student is good at memorization - they’ll use that skill to succeed at school. They know what they’re capable of learning and how they learn best. They don’t focus on what they don’t have yet, or don’t know yet. They focus on taking steps toward a future they know they want - being a surgeon.

 Center Your Activity on What You Can Do

 Rather than focusing on how guts make you throw up, focus on how much you want to make your patients feel better. Many people are able to overcome fear of heights to become a pilot, fear of water to learn to dive, even natural sea sickness and more to follow their dreams to be a ship captain. It happens all the time. You can do it too.

 Focusing on your strengths doesn’t mean you have permission to give up if something is hard, or you have a road block. It just means you have to find a way around the hard part to the good part. For example, if you want to be a romance writer, but you work 5 days a week, 10 hours a day, you may have to write one hour a day on Sunday until you’re done with your book to see success. But, the point is, it can be done if you have a plan. Focus on can, not can’t.

 You Can Do More Than You Think You Can

 Remember, you can always push yourself just a little farther than you think you’re capable of going. One more push up, one more page of a book, one more step on your walk. It can always be done.

 “The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.” -- Arnold Schwarzenegger

 To prove this truth is the fact that so many people do so much with so little just take a little time to search the Internet for some examples of people who have accomplished amazing feats due to talent, skill, and love of what they do.

 Take Amanda Mercer, a mom who spent years training to swim in a relay race across the English Channel in order to bring awareness to Lou Gehrig’s disease. She came down with breast cancer during training and still did not stop. She met her goal just a couple of weeks after finishing her last round of chemo. She broke the world record by four minutes.

 How about Rick Hohn? He has cerebral palsy but is a motivational speaker from California. He’s also an accomplished artist, a pastor, teacher and author. He doesn’t allow his limited mobility to stop him from achieving much in life that even the most able-bodied person would be proud to accomplish.

 If there is something you really want to succeed at doing, and you can find a way there with your natural talents and abilities, you can do it. Don’t let lack of training, time or anything else get in your way. You can push just a little bit more and make it happen if you really love it and really want to.

 Don’t Make Excuses

 It can be easy to fall into excuse territory. Life does give you lemons. Sometimes you may need to find a way to leverage other people’s talent where yours is lacking. You may need to work just a little harder than someone else to get the same results. But, given time and effort, you can take your talents and turn them into great success. It’s your choice.

 There are, of course, some weaknesses that you should work on. If they have to do with your physical, mental, social and spiritual self, then it is important that you continue to try to improve, at least in as much as it affects your ability to choose your success. For example, if you are scared of water, but you really want to be in a triathlon, you’ll have to overcome that mental block. If you aren’t good with computers but this doesn’t affect your ability to become a brain surgeon, then it doesn’t really matter.

 The fact is, that most of the time when you focus on capitalizing on your strengths over worrying about your weaknesses, you will experience success that much faster. Many people who aren’t well-rounded are successful, but one thing is sure, they don’t play it safe. Therefore, being well-rounded isn’t needed for success.

 Place your trust in what you can do, know (or are capable of learning), but first focus on what you know right now to seek real success in the present. Starting with what you know is the best formula for long-term success and choosing the right path to that success. Start by avoiding excuses.

 If you become the type of person who takes responsibility for your actions, you can become the type of person who chooses success over excuses. In addition, you need to learn to believe in yourself and your abilities to succeed. The way you develop belief in yourself is much the same as you develop belief in others -through experiences you have. The more you actually experience feelings of success, the more you’ll believe you can keep experiencing it.

 Even if you’re scared, start small. Take the time to visualize how success looks, rather than focusing on any roadblocks getting in your way. Most roadblocks are mental, anyway. You can overcome them in order to get to the point of success if you stay focused on your strengths instead of weaknesses. The main trick is to just get started. Everything else later will be easier than getting started.

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