Experience Your Ideal Life - Discover and Use Your Strengths

What are your strengths? Here’s an easy, excellent way to discover your strengths.

Ask yourself this question: What do you feel while you are doing an activity?
- It comes naturally to you
- It feels easy, almost effortless
- It just flows, don’t have to try very hard to do it,
- You enjoy doing it, you feel ‘on fire’
- Time flies by when you are doing it
- You concentrate and focus with excitement, energy, inquisitiveness
- You want to do it more and more
- You want to learn more about it
- You feel strong, confident while doing it

Make a list of these activities.
When you are doing something that makes you feel and experience some of the emotions listed above, make note of that activity right then.

You are accumulating your list of strengths…. This is an exciting time because you are discovering strengths you didn’t even realize you have.

Use your strengths to help you find your passion…. or to reaffirm your current passion.
When you find your passion using your strengths as the base starting point, your chances of finding your true passion are excellent. Why? Because you already love and enjoy doing them; you do these things with more ease and more emotions and feelings than other things.

A few years ago I completed a similar exercise when going through a transitional period. What I learned, to my surprise, was that I had been doing my passion for many years, even though I didn’t realize it. I always enjoyed doing what I did, and the exercise reaffirmed what I felt.

Over the years I continued doing many of these same daily and weekly activities, however some adjustments as to where I used my strengths occurred as time went on.

Consulting, strategizing, empowering and inspiring people were always regular activities for me. It started as door-to-door Fuller Brush Rep (I broke the rules of ‘pushy’ sales tactics because I just couldn’t do them; in fact I hated them. Meeting and being with people, assisting them was what I loved. So I tried using a “What questions do you have today and let’s try to find a solution’ approach. I was so grateful it worked… cause I was too scared to do the recommended process.

Six years later my seamstress business started. Later I became an employee in corporate world consulting with clients…. followed by starting and building my own consulting business to entrepreneurs and other businesses and organizations. Consulting, strategizing, empowering and inspiring people has been a dominant theme throughout my life…. no matter what I was doing. It was, is and will be my passion.

I encourage you to become more keenly aware of activities you love doing, make a list of them to see how they fit into what you currently do or what you may want to do.

Enjoy this process and the clarity that will come to you about your strengths. It will guide you toward your passion, your dream business, your dream life.

In great gratitude,
Barbara Filla
Passion Branding Community