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title: Focusing On Your Strengths
date: 2014-09-01 21:32:00 Z
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description: '"There is a fine line between knowing your self-worth, and defending
  an insecurity of your assumed strengths."'
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A reoccurring theme that has been appearing the last few weeks for me, and those that have had sessions with me, has been the topic of strength vs. weaknesses when trying to grow, change, and improve.

The opposing positions are on the focus of whether to devote time and energy into fixing our weaknesses or nurturing our strengths. It is important to note that the position I support is specific to certain people who tend to put themselves down in order to improve. It is an entirely individual, circumstantial and unique experience. For some it may be imperative to change a major "weakness" in their life as it is causing major disruption to their quality of life, relationships and self perception - before they can begin to build on their strengths again. An example of this personality may be an inflated faith, confidence and focus on their selected strengths - forgetting to occasionally address or accept their weaknesses. And when conflict arises in their strengths (i.e. loss of job, lack of compromise in relationships, etc.) they are out of sorts on how to do or adjust to anything different, for it may have been all they have known about themselves. They are then forced to address their weakness from ground-zero.

That is a different path and a different conversation. I believe it is more common in our society to beat ourselves up over what we are not and forgetting to appreciate our already beautiful and amazing selves; and so, I've divided this into a macro and micro perspective. The macro addresses on the broad idea of focusing on our strengths and the micro focuses on how to avoid motivating oneself through negative means (criticism versus encouragement).

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title: Focusing On Your Strengths
date: 2014-09-01 21:32:00 Z
categories:
- writing
image: "/uploads/img-8523.jpg"
description: '"There is a fine line between knowing your self-worth, and defending
  an insecurity of your assumed strengths."'
video: 
layout: post
---

A reoccurring theme that has been appearing the last few weeks for me, and those that have had sessions with me, has been the topic of strength vs. weaknesses when trying to grow, change, and improve.

The opposing positions are on the focus of whether to devote time and energy into fixing our weaknesses or nurturing our strengths. It is important to note that the position I support is specific to certain people who tend to put themselves down in order to improve. It is an entirely individual, circumstantial and unique experience. For some it may be imperative to change a major "weakness" in their life as it is causing major disruption to their quality of life, relationships and self perception - before they can begin to build on their strengths again. An example of this personality may be an inflated faith, confidence and focus on their selected strengths - forgetting to occasionally address or accept their weaknesses. And when conflict arises in their strengths (i.e. loss of job, lack of compromise in relationships, etc.) they are out of sorts on how to do or adjust to anything different, for it may have been all they have known about themselves. They are then forced to address their weakness from ground-zero.

That is a different path and a different conversation. I believe it is more common in our society to beat ourselves up over what we are not and forgetting to appreciate our already beautiful and amazing selves; and so, I've divided this into a macro and micro perspective. The macro addresses on the broad idea of focusing on our strengths and the micro focuses on how to avoid motivating oneself through negative means (criticism versus encouragement).

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