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I wrote “Life Matches: Fire Up Your Life!” to urge you to choose to live your life Fired Up! This means that you learn to live your life using your natural, God-given strengths and manage around your weaknesses. The goal is to make your strengths so strong that your weaknesses do not keep you from being the 100% you that you were born to be.
The only thing is, I AM WRONG!
There is no such thing as weaknesses! We only have differing levels of capacities. You may have been born with a limited capacity in one particular personal gift or talent, but it is not a weakness unless you choose to judge it as being one.
Rather than feel dejected and depressed about your weaknesses that never seem to improve, why not accept, understand, and embrace your limited capacities for what they are? Your limits are something that can keep you humble. Your limits can keep you safe. Your limits can keep you using your strengths that keep you on purpose!
A nine-volt battery does not have a weakness because it cannot generate 12 volts of power. It isn’t designed to do so. The battery is designed to store and deliver nine volts. It is limited, but it is perfectly limited for its rightful purpose. So are we all.
The next time you are spending lots of emotional and thought energy worrying about your weaknesses, rename and reclaim them for what they really are…your limited capacities.
God does not make mistakes. You are perfectly you with both strengths and limited capacities. Test and explore your limits, and in areas where you discover you have the potential to expand your capacity (strengths), go for it!
You’ll enjoy the warmth and spark of living your life “FIRED UP!”
Ready to fire up your work and your life? I’m an executive coach from Indianapolis, and I work one-on-one with executives and managers, in person for local clients or via Zoom. If this post raised a question about your work or your next step, we should talk. The first discovery call is free and confidential. Book your discovery call, or call or text me at 317-643-0058, Monday through Friday, 9 to 5.
