Saima Ikram
The risk involved in becoming exuberantly strength-focused is that your weaknesses become a kind of dark side that you hope to sweep aside and overcome. But according to experts, your weaknesses can become fresh efforts at mastery because your growth often comes by overcoming your weak points. Admitting your weaknesses give you strength and make you a more well-rounded individual as well as a more diligent worker.
Following are the ways that can help you to work on strengthening your weaknesses and overcome habits that hold you back from reaching your goals:
Consider your strengths:
Before identifying your weaknesses, you need to focus on your strengths. Once you identify your strong points it will help you to benefit from them while improving things that you are weak at. Make a list of all the things you are good at and see how you can connect them with your weaknesses so work upon them in a better manner.
Identify your weaknesses:
Now you need to be clear on what your weaknesses are or things that you wished you were better at. Take a look at how your weak points are making a bad impact on your personal or professional life. Be honest with yourself and see how these weak points when transformed into strengths will help you excel in your career.
Set concrete goals:
Once you create a goal towards anything you want, it gives you something specific to work on. It is because setting goals create a sense of accountability. Set goals and set a specific time limit because then you will be able to understand the actionable steps that can take you to improve upon your weak points.
Have the right mindset:
You cannot overcome your weaknesses until you adapt to the right mindset. Embrace what the challenge is and enjoy the journey towards reaching that particular state. Taking on your weaknesses will make you feel more confident and will strengthen your belief in your abilities.
Stay consistent:
You cannot improve something in a day or two. You must understand that improving your weaknesses takes time; therefore, you need to make a consistent effort to get the results that you want. You need to stay consistent in your efforts because you will not get the desired results overnight, you will have to become strong and keep on doing that.
Be open to the changes:
The best motivation you can get for improving your weakness is by visualizing how the change would benefit you. You need to think that how you will benefit when a weak point will not be a problem anymore. For example, if you don’t feel confident while communicating with people then it makes you not so much reliable in their eyes. By improving upon your weakness, you will become more trustworthy and dependable in the eyes of the people you communicate with and it will help you excel in your field.
