Have you recently been asked ‘Why are you doing what you do?’
Strengths Profile August 20th, 2007Mark McClure was asked by friends and colleagues, “Why are you doing what you do?” He wrote in his blog, “I remember that some of their generally well-meaning questions made me somewhat ashamed that I even needed to focus on personal development. It was real easy to start looking for what might be really “wrong” with me to have created the PD need in the first place.”
Mark said that he started to make “it a daily habit of asking myself this question before the start of almost every major task: “What is the point of doing this?” This felt weird but I soon got used to it. What remained tricky was to remember to pose the same question when the task was completed!”
Robin Ryan wrote in her blog to “Build a career on your strengths. You have natural talents that you were born with. These talents are the things you find easy to do. Maybe it’s teaching or writing. Maybe it’s designing, selling, or helping people. You have numerous strengths so list all your talents, including things that others compliment you on. If you begin to use your mastered strengths on the job daily, you’ll move up faster, find better jobs, and be paid a higher salary as a result, so make using your innate talents the basis for any position you choose to go after.”
So, what do you think about looking at each task before and after completion and asking two simple questions, “Why am I doing this task?” and “Does this task require my strengths?” I am challenged to take a day and ask these two questions before and after all of my tasks. We have a short life to live. I am pursuing living life to the fullest, and I want to use my strengths in what I do. What about you? Do you know your strengths and are you using them throughout the day?
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