It can be easier to align your work with your natural strengths if you know what areas are outside of your natural strength zone.
What activities in your current work are outside of your strength zone and make you feel weak, tired and trapped when you do them?
Make a list and look to gradually delegate this work so that you can do more of the work that’s aligned with your strengths.
Rick Smith, author of The Leap, says that the basis of being successful in your work is in aligning your work with your natural strengths.
* What activities are you doing when you’re so deeply engaged that you lose track of time?
* What activities make you feel alive, strong and free?
* What activities make your body feel alive, energized, strong and free?
* What skills have you learned with relative ease?
* What kinds of information do you have a super-human memory for?
* What activities do you like to do in your spare time?
The answers to these questions will tell you what your natural strengths are. And knowing your strengths is the first step to doing the work you love.
From the title, “The Leap,” you might think that this book is all about having the courage and inspiration to take big steps and make big changes. Actually, as you’ll see as we work through this Bottom-line, this book takes the view that tiny, cautiously tested out steps are preferable to big, courageous leaps.
I chose this book because one of the core Agile Living values is that, in creating the life you want and being more of the person you want to be, evolution is preferable to revolution and I really resonated with what Rick had to say about that, so that’s one of the ideas that I’ve covered quite deeply in this Bottom-line.
