Your Biggest Strength

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It's a new day and your greatest strength could become your greatest weakness in vice versa.

You know, a lot of times.

But so think about it, right?

Because we see this happens a lot that someone's biggest strength can end up being their

biggest weakness.

For example, someone's aggressive playing sports.

And they're so aggressive that they jump off sides, you know, playing football or they

fall out, you know, because they're playing basketball and they're, you know, too aggressive.

And so just in life, you know, just think about what if the thing that made you successful

is the exact same thing that could prevent you from reaching the next level.

And that's where, you know, there was a book I think out that was called, would get you

here, won't take you there or something along those lines.

I've never read it.

But that's the vibe is sometimes what gets you to one level won't take you to the next

level, even though it's a strength for you.

And so most people spend, you know, a lot of their lives trying to fix their weaknesses.

But sometimes the biggest danger is failing to recognize when your strengths become

excessive to where then that becomes a weakness.

So you know, as an example, work ethic, extreme work ethic could be a huge strength, but

it could also become the inability to rest, which is something that I focus a lot on

with some of my young ambitious, you know, folks is that they got a motor.

You know, they're not afraid to work a lot and work late.

You know, I'm always working on them trying to make sure that they're getting their sleep

and getting their rest because, you know, if you look at a lot of times, these things that

are, once a strength can flip around on you, if you're not careful.

You know, as an example, you need confidence to win.

You got to have confidence sometimes to take your life and your business to the next level.

No one wants to follow someone that's, you know, passive or lacks vision or lacks the

confidence to say, follow me, but that same confidence can evolve or turn into arrogance.

And there's a line between ego and arrogance and confidence.

And a lot of times those lines can get blurred, you know, for people.

Intensity can become volatility, loyalty can become tolerant to not good treatment, you

know, almost loyal to a fault.

Ambition can be, you know, that's something that can become, you know, obsession.

And obsession is sometimes what it takes to be great.

You know, I tell people sometimes that book, you know, be obsessed or be average, but

you still got to find a way in the middle of obsession to take care of yourself, to take

care of your family, to take care of other things around you.

You just got to be aware of it and some of the things on how it can harm you or hurt you.

Competitiveness is another one that comes to mind.

You know, that can become like the inability to collaborate with others.

You know, I've had challenges sometimes in building teams where I've had ultra competitive

people not be able to get along, you know, with anyone on the team because they're so competitive.

And, you know, I'm so thankful for our culture that we currently have right now because we're

able to have people compete, people that are competitive, but at the end of the day,

they're still collaborative and they still help one another and there's no hate on, you

know, all these other sides.

And, you know, that's always a blessing and it doesn't happen on accident, but that's

just another example.

You know, being decisive, you know, someone that's, they make decisions, you know, can become

that's difficult to hear other people's opinions or they refuse to listen, you know, to anybody.

The traits that separate you, you know, at times from other people or even our strengths

of yours can eventually become blind spots if you're not paying attention to some of those

things.

What works at one level doesn't necessarily work always at the, at the next level and those

are the things that we got to be aware of as we evolve.

And, you know, when you're in your career, you may have to outwork everybody.

That might be something that starts to separate you.

Later on, you might need to learn how to build a system and it's not just straight work

ethic and how to build people and pour time into multiplying others and how to delegate,

how to develop, you know, other people instead of simply working harder yourself.

There's only so much that you can do.

You know, I've tried to explain to people sometimes that 100% of you is all you got, right?

So if I train 10 people to be 80% of me, that's 800% of me or 90% of me, that's 900% of me.

There is no 900% of you.

There is no 900% of the next person or whatever it is.

So that work ethic is great.

That's, that's amazing.

That's huge, hard to coat sometimes.

But if that's it and we never evolve from that, that'll be the same thing that keeps you

stuck because you're going to have to build out systems.

You're going to have to build out people.

The answer isn't always becoming less ambitious or less intense or less demanding, less,

you know, not wanting to hold people accountable anymore.

That's not, that's not always the answer.

The answer might be to gain control over those traits.

You just got to control it.

You got to be able to have all those traits that make you great, but keep them in under control.

Like strength, someone that's strong-minded, strong-willed, without control can become a liability

more than it's an asset.

The question isn't just, what am I good at?

The question to ask yourself is that what point does this strength be counterproductive

for me or to me?

Real growth requires some self-awareness, like enough self-awareness to recognize.

When the thing that built your success and got you to where you are needs to evolve

a little bit, don't abandon your strengths.

Learn how to master those strengths, I think would be the advice that you're doing a low

analysis of yourself and say, these are my strengths, these are my weaknesses.

And typically the growth is working on those strengths.

Multiply, a lot of times I think people's faults, or they work too much on their weaknesses

and not enough building off of their strengths.

That's a whole other conversation in itself.

I think analyzing, is there anything in my strength zone that I'm allowing to cross

over the line that's becoming something that's hurting me?

And then how do you balance that?

How do you still keep it as a strength but not let it get out of whack?

And so I think that's something this week as we go into the week, has your strong-wildness

made you stubborn?

Has it made you not as coachable anymore?

Is your loyalty, has that caused you to tolerate things that maybe you shouldn't tolerate?

Or is it the ability to see the best in others allowing you to make some mistakes because

you're always looking at the positive side to the person or the thing and not calling

a spade a spade?

What?

Take a snapshot of what makes you good, what makes you great, whether it's a work ethic

or what?

And just see, just do a check-up.

Is any of this stuff hurting me in any way?

Do I have this under control?

Because if you do, then that's a strength for you and it's probably something that's

going to continue to help you and you should continue to do it.

If you're noticing some of your strengths that are coming back at you and hurting you a little

bit, maybe you dive into why and improve in that area and turn it back into a strength

right now because sometimes that can turn into a weakness if you're not paying attention

to it.

That was the subject matter today.

Was pay attention, your greatest strength could become your greatest weakness.

This upcoming week, let's double down on our strength, let's pay attention to these

strengths and pay attention to any areas that they could be becoming, could be becoming

a weakness.

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