Think about this for a moment: What’s your biggest weakness that affects your business?  Is it not being detail oriented, inability to delegate or is it that technology makes your skin crawl?

Whatever you just identified is potentially the source for the most positive change in your career.  My dad often told me to turn my weaknesses into my strengths.  It was a great saying that I really never thought much about until recently.

It’s easy and frankly a lot more fun to keep focusing on those talents we are very good at.  However by just concentrating on what we do best we risk the potential for becoming out of balance and not very effective.  It’s like exercising just your right arm because you happen to be right-handed.  Imagine how weird that would look.  Just as an aside, I once worked for someone who broke his left arm which caused it to atrophy and become very weak.  He took the idea of turning weakness into strength quite literally until he could do seven one-handed chin ups with that “weak” arm!

Working to strengthen our weaknesses by definition takes us out of our comfort zone, but the payoffs when we do are enormous…

…transforming a weakness into a strength can make all your other strengths more effective. When the weakness is no longer holding you back, every part of your life will see the benefits

Ralph Marston

If you had ever met me in high school I would have been the last person in the world you would have expected to become a successful international speaker and author.  I had the social skills of a rusty lamp post.  So take another moment to think about how your career and life would be different if you turned just one weakness into your strength…