How to Learn your Strengths and Apply them
We all have strengths, and eventually we all figure out what we are good at and what we aren't good at. Sometimes though we choose to ignore the fact that we are good at something, or the fact that we might not be so good at something. It isn't always that we don't see what we are good at, or bad at, but we just don't know how to apply those skills. Perhaps we continue to struggle at something we aren't good at because we feel like it is the best we can do. What can we do to change that?
Learning your skill set takes time and patience. You have to spend a lot of time gaining the experience that it takes to really figure out what you are good at, and what you are not so good at. You also need to take time to figure out why you might not be good at something, or why you might be good at something. Are you naturally talented at something, or do you have to work hard to be good at it? Are you not good at something simply because you are not trying?
Once you learn your skill set, you have to learn how to apply those skills. Do you take a diffent job, or do you try to transfer within the company to another area where you can use your skills better. Do you just forget an established company, and go ahead to do your own thing in business? If you are good in business, but don't like having set hours, you might just want to go ahead and do that for yourself.
Applying your skill set is a very important thing to do, because if you don't apply your skills, you could be stuck in the wrong job for the rest of your life. Who wants to work a job they hate when they could be doing something that they enjoy, or at least can do a little bit better? I certainly wouldn't want to be stuck at a job I didn't like simply because I thought it was all I could do, or because I didn't know what I wanted to do, or what I was good at.
It took me awhile, but I learned through going to college that I liked to write about sports more than I liked to report on sports. At work I learned that I like to entertain, and just have fun as opposed to doing the customer service stuff. Through that I learned that I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be someone that could entertain people socially, and just have a good time doing whatever it was that I was doing. It is important to know yourself, and apply your skill set.
You learn through experience, and you learn by doing. If you don't fail, and don't have a bad job, you won't know what it is to have a great job after that. However, if you never try to find a better job, or something that you are suited for, you will be doomed to a dead end life. Who wants that?
