Your Biggest Weakness is Actually One of Your Greatest Strengths
In our lives we face obstacles, big and small, on a daily basis. However, the obstacles that we face aren't our weaknesses. Obstacles are meant to slow you down, but weaknesses can stop you altogether. Your personal weaknesses are keys to greater strength.
Take a look at any of our favorite super heroes who suddenly got powers. Depending on the ability, experiencing them at first was shocking. Then they see the effects abilities have on them, and/or others, and start to become mesirable. After learning what their ability does, they find the way to direct their new found strength. In the very same way our personal problems, our weaknesses, our disabilities, are hidden strengths we've yet to grasp hold of to wield.
My personal disability is ADHD, I've had it all my life, but was never evaluated until November of 2015. For school it was problematic I couldn't focus and I didn't have a way at the time to fix it. Once I fell behind the lesson taking notes my mind would force me to go to sleep in middle of class. If it was a classroom and I couldn't focus, you'd definitely find me asleep 😴. However, it also turned out to be the answer that I needed to my attention problem. The same thing that always happened during class also happened during the tests. I would go through the test answering the questions that I could, but on a lot of them I couldn't think of anything. As I struggled to think of how to figure it out, I fell asleep. I'd end up waking up 10 minutes before the end of class and start plowing through each question I didn't know beforehand, now known with certainty. And when the tests came back they were amongst the highest grades in the class. My disability and the environment I was forced to stay in made it so I was able to make the grades for me to play the sports I did in high school.
Another example of a weakness of mine is my hard headedness. Most of us learn as children that a hard head makes for a sore bottom. Meaning being hard headed will get you beat, "in this house, and in life," said most parents 😅. However, hard headedness happens to be the negative connotation we give stubbornness, or conviction. People can, and do, say I'm hard headed because I want to do things my way, if I think it's better. I like to do things my way because when it comes to my life I can't blame others for how it turns out, even step by step. So my conviction was always disguised as hard headedness. I've hit my head a number of times, but it's what I needed in order to become who I need myself to be. Whether it's a pro baseball player or a powerful business owner, conviction in my way of doing things will be essential. As well in the same way can destroy me if I don't know when to wield it. For if I'm all too attached to doing everything my way then all of sudden my growth will stop, everyone else will alwas be wrong, and I'll will forever turn my back on the infinite possibilities of the world, and would essentially stop myself right where I'm at.
Your weaknesses and your strengths are the same weapon. How you wield it determines what you will do with it. Will you make it a weapon of self destruction, hurting yourself and those around you? Or a tool to create, build, provide, and protect yourself and those close you?
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