Strengths

How To Find Your Personal Process for Success

This is a follow up post to my previous post, Living Your Process. I've had enough folks ask me how to map out their success process that I'll share some more prescriptive guidance. It's a work in progress, but it's enough to share for now. The big idea with living your process is that it helps you make the most of what you've got. It's about living with passion and playing to your strengths. It's also about living your values whether it's at work or at play. It's about knowing what fulfills you and what sparks you each day. It's about living from the inside out and leading yourself first.

Living Your Process

I'm a fan of "living your process." To put it another way, this is about "approach over results." Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of results. The problem is you can't control all the events in your life or what happens to you. In life, you control your attitude and response ... and it's not what happens to you, but how you react.

Why Your Talents are Enduring and Unique

Can you reconfigure your brain for empathy, competitiveness, or strategic thinking? Maybe. You might be fighting an uphill battle though. Your brain shrinks as you get older. As it shrinks, you get smarter. Your brain shapes around your key strengths. By the time you reach your mid-teens, your brain is mostly shaped. I think what this means is that you gain more by focusing on your strengths and playing to your strengths, than trying to improve your weaknesses. If you've got it, flaunt it.

Nature vs Nurture?

“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.” — Raymond Hull Is your personality nature or nurture? Studies consistently show 45 to 50 percent is nature. The surprise though is that the other 50 percent is not nurture. It’s not your birth order. It’s not whether you were in day care. …

Strengths and Weaknesses vs. Personality Profiles

Strengths and weaknesses are not the same as personality labels. Personality profiles are your strongest patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior. Strengths are those activities that you do well and have a natural passion and ability for. The key is to go beyond any personality labels and identify your specific, real world activities that …