Imagine your (school-aged) child comes home from school at the end of the school year with the following grades: A, B, C, B, A, B, F, C
What do you (automatically) focus most of your mental energy on? Be honest.
When I ask this question to my seminar participants, 98% of the audience answers: Of course, the grade 5. That one urgently needs to be improved.
But will the child continue to develop in this way? Will this enable them to become the best they can be? We don't think so. We believe that we Germans are world champions at focusing our attention on what is still missing and not looking at what is already there and making more of it. Why is that?
We have often discussed this principle with teachers. Opinions often differ on this issue. We regularly ask ourselves why teachers always mark everything that is wrong in red, for example in a German dictation. It would also make sense to mark everything that is correct in green. Why is this not done? Apparently, what is correct is always taken for granted. From our point of view, it is not!
In our view, excellence is achieved by continuously working on and developing your strengths. Eliminating weaknesses always results in mediocrity. Always. Where do you focus your energy? On eliminating weaknesses or on developing your strengths? There is a principle in life that says: what you focus on grows (consciously or unconsciously)!
[mks_pullquote align="left" width="300" size="24" bg_color="#5D819D" txt_color="#ffffff"]"Become a world champion in your strengths and your success will be unstoppable."[/mks_pullquote]
In the seminar, we like to show participants this image and ask them what percentage of their strengths they are able to utilize in their everyday working lives. Unfortunately, this is often far too little—in our view, there is enormous potential for personal and professional development here. Why is this not being exploited?
Albert Einstein once said:
"Everyone is a genius! But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid."
It is the responsibility individual to recognize their own strengths and then seek out an environment in which these strengths can be effectively utilized. It sounds simple, but it is not easy to implement. What do you think?
We would like Strength Orientation you Strength Orientation two powerful questions on the topic Strength Orientation . If you are genuinely interested in exploring these questions in depth and finding answers, you will reap enormous benefits—it is up to you to decide whether you want to do so.
"How do other people benefit from my existence?"
"What difference could my talents and strengths make to others?"
That's why you're not really happy.
Why success and fulfillment have nothing to do with each other.
