We have been trained from school to focus on the ‘F’ rather than the ‘A’. But when we live in the world of the F student trying to be an A student, as the saying goes, we just become more of who we believe we are.

This is something that I have recently become aware of in regards to focusing on my strengths rather than focusing on my ‘weaknesses’ and trying to fix them.

My thoughts at the moment around this area is that we will really struggle to achieve what we want by coming from a broken mind set.

I can be obsessive when I am researching something and it has dawned on me from the current work I am doing that my nature will never let up on finding a ‘cure’ for these weaknesses – that i’m starting to think doesn’t exist – or at least not in the way I’m searching for it.

If we attempt to fix what wrong from a broken mindset we will never get out of our mental quagmires.

However, if I use the same obsessiveness to focus on my strengths and to approach challenges – including where I want to improve, from a strengths persona, then everything starts to change.

Its a simple paradigm shift, one that goes from looking at what’s right, rather than ‘what’s wrong in order to become right!’

There simply isn’t enough time to fix what’s wrong before setting off to achieve what we want. We will die with what’s wrong never having achieved half of what we could have done.

Because at the start of the Journey into what’s wrong we just continue to venture into more and more towns and villages where there’s more’ evidence of what’s broken. It never ends!

We become our own ‘media reporters’ finding and reporting on the crap stuff which only serves to trick us into believing we are ‘shafted’. This generates a neurotic paralysis that prevents us ever moving forwards, despite the feeling we are in perpetual motion to nowhere!

If up until now you have been trying to move forwards by sitting for hours talking about what’s wrong with you and still nothings changing an idea maybe to go and discover your strengths instead and tackle everything form this stand point and see what changes for you.