Make this the year where you stop trying to fix your shortcomings.

1. Obsessed
with your
shortcomings?
Trying to
fix them? You never will.
And you shouldn’t try...

2. Everybody has
shortcomings.
They’re so
easy to list.
Go ahead.
List yours now.

3. Everybody has
shortcomings.
Now toss the list out.
It’s just a distraction.

4. No one
ever became
successful
by fixing their
shortcomings.

5. They became
successful
by avoiding their
shortcomings.

6. The wise Alf said it best.
“Find out what
you don’t do well…
and don’t do it.”

7. And management guru
Peter Drucker
revealed the
strategy:
“Get your strengths
together and make
your weaknesses
irrelevant.”

8. And management guru
Peter Drucker
revealed the
strategy:
“Get your strengths
together and make
your weaknesses
irrelevant.”
Over here. It’s all about
your strengths,
not your weaknesses.

9. Working on your
weaknesses might
make you 10% better.
Working on your
strengths could make
you 10 times better!
10%

10. The most successful
people are riddled
with weaknesses.

11. They just ignored
their weaknesses and
used their strengths.

12. List your
strengths.
Go ahead.
We’ll wait.

13. Writer’s cramp?
You’re one of the lucky
people who can easily
list your strengths.
Writer’s block?
That’s more common.
We seem to know our
shortcomings better
than our strengths.

14. Try asking others.
Friends.
Mentors.
Clients.
Associates.

15. Here’s another way.
Convene a strength-
writing circle. You and
two colleagues… all of
whom who like and
know each other well.

16. Here’s how it works.
Spend 15 minutes
writing the strengths
of the person on your
right.

17. Here’s how it works.
Then 15 minutes more
writing the strengths
of the person on your
left.

18. Here’s how it works.
Exchange papers.
You’ll each have 2 lists
of your strengths
generated by people
who know and care.

19. Ignore those
shortcomings.
Zero in on your
strengths.
Use them more often.
Polish them to a sheen.
Set goals to grow them.
Combine them for magic.

20. Stop obsessing
about what you
can’t do.
Be obsessive
about what you
can do.