Play To Your Strengths? Or Work On Your Weaknesses?

BREATHE!

I’m very grateful to Brendon Burchard. His “High Performance Habits” book and system is a fine, strong one, but more importantly, my family and business partners have all accepted the basic concepts, which gives us a common language. It is a Rosetta Stone. I can relate all of the personal evolution concepts and practices to it, one way or another, which is wonderful.

The Six Principles are said to interrelate. You can identify your strengths, as well as work on your weaknesses. They are:

Clarity

Energy

Necessity

Productivity

Influence

Courage

As said, yes, there are other sets of principles, but these overlap any set I’ve seen, I can’t disagree with any of them, and they form that common language necessary for team action.

Which of these are your personal strengths? Which are your weaknesses? And a really interesting question: Do you tend to, or prefer to do: play to your strengths, or work on those weaknesses?

Personally, I use my strengths to drive a daily set of actions, but am constantly working on those weaknesses. The “M.A.G.I.C.” formula is just to get in the “game.” If you lack any one of them (Map or Model, Action, Gratitude, Intention, Confidence) you are pretty much dead in the water. And when you find someone who is “stuck” you can always find one or…