Are You Playing to Your Strengths?

Ask yourself…do you like standing in the heat? Do you have a pattern for breaking through to new levels of awareness and accomplishment? Or does it just stress you out?

• Do you create and drive on a mission or do you clarify a mission?

• Are you good at inside sales or outside sales?

• Is fear a motivator or de-motivator?

• Do you naturally expand the pie before dividing it?

• Do you over extend or do you stay in exchange?

• Are you better at organizing and motivating an existing group of people or attracting a great team from scratch?

• Are you time based or outcome based?

• What is your level of risk and how much of yourself are you willing to risk?

• Do you look to do “the deal” first or do you over-serve first?

• Does ‘not knowing’ slow you down or speed you up?

• When does money enter the picture…sooner or later?

• Do you seek balance in your life or do you operate at extremes?

• Does pressure and scarcity make you creative or does a smorgasbord of talent and resources do it for you?

• Are you a revolutionary/rising star in a world of the known or are you creating light where there isn’t even a perceived need for light yet?

• Do you find that your creative juices flow when presented with problems or do you create problems and then get creative?

• Do you move at the speed of your expectations or at the speed of (others’) reality?

It’s not that one answer is better and you may find that in some cases you are one side of the equation and other times you’re on the other side. But all the people I have met who have achieved high levels of success have one thing in common – they position themselves to win almost unconsciously. You’ve gotta play to your strengths and put yourself into an environment that will allow the best you to emerge.

Doing anything less is kidding yourself and setting yourself up for frustration. It’s not so much about what quadrant you are in as it is the way you think and where your heart and soul are at. Do not try to be someone that you are not!