One way to fight stress: be resilient!
Stress is “fought” best by being resilient.
How resilient are you?
Resilience has a lot of factors, and one is focusing on your strengths (not your weaknesses).
What is your superpower?
Recently I received a gift – a bookbag and it says “I’m a teacher. What’s your superpower?” I love this!
This little saying gets me to thinking.
We all have our superpowers, you too!
You may even have more than one!
My husband is great with his hands. He creates things with them and plays the piano very well. He’s also a very gifted massage therapist – don’t just ask me, check it out.
What is your superpower?
Have you taken a strengths test? There are some good ones out there.
Or have you done something else to confirm your superpower?
Most of us focus way too much on what we are not good at. Then we try to improve the problem areas instead of moving from a grounded space of what we do well, and rather intuitively.
Do you focus on your weaknesses to the detriment of your strengths?
Peter Drucker says that we should work from what we are good at and try to mitigate our weaknesses (either by letting others do it, or by trying to do more of what we are good at).
Doing more at what you are good at makes you less stressed!
I would add that doing the “hard thing” is not necessarily what we are bad at, but the thing that causes us to think harder, to work harder. It is a bit like self-discipline. Discipline is for your own good. Hard work is good for you and me.
How can you do all this?
First, do not mix up your superpower with what is easy.
What you want to accomplish, the good thing the hard thing, the thing that keeps you up at night planning and smiling, the thing that helps you to get up in the morning charged and excited… that is where you will, most likely, find our superpower.
Finding your superpower is best done with a coach, as it’s very easy for you to focus on the easy things and the things that are “urgent”.
It will take time to find out what you are really gifted in and learn how to practice your superpower.
There will be failure, and incremental progress. But that is good for you.
Failure is often where you learn most (and remember best, btw).
Although there are websites for this, I recommend you find your superpower with someone else walking with you (a coach or supervisor). It works best this way.
Do you feel ready to move on this? Feel free to contact me to find out more at patricia@jehle-coaching.com
Patricia Jehle
