Do What You Are Good At

May 23rd, 2008 | by Chris |

I read recently a book from the rich dad’s advisors series from Blair Singer titled “The ABC’s of Building a Business Team That Wins”. An excellent read for those of you who want. But I don’t want to talk about the general concept of the book that revolves around building teams based on a code of honor that the members would have to hold. A code specific designed for the whole team.

I would rather want to talk about something else in the book that grab my attention, thoughts, and feelings. Though I was exposed to the concept, I want to talk about, before, it was really while reading this book that kicked something inside me. Like when you are reading something you heard or read many times before somewhere else, but this time you say “wow, yes, that makes sense” and it gets imprinted inside you.

Well, while I was reading, in a chapter of the book the writer talks about some evaluations companies run on their employees with the purpose to identify their strong and weak points, where they are good at and where they are facing weaknesses related to their work. Once they do that they point to their workers their weak points to work on them in order to improve their performance.

Blair Singer, asks at that point if they have got into the trouble of making this whole analysis why point them to improve what they are not good at doing and not instead tell them to concentrate and start doing more of what they are good at.

He exclaims that it is already a huge step for someone to learn what he is good at, as most don’t. And makes more sense since you know that, plus it’s more easy, to concentrate on doing more of the things that you are good at doing.

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Photo by Wolfgang Staudt

Sometimes it may take years to improve your weak points, so why waste some time on that. It’s not that you don’t need to improve these things, but you shouldn’t make it your number one priority and base your future progress and success on it.

It came to my mind how many people in multilevel marketing may try to improve their weaknesses while at the same time may have advantages that don’t use at all. How many are stuck trying to grasp, understand, and practice a prospecting method that it may not feet to their character and it may take them years to learn and master it in order to see results, only because it’s the new hot trend.

While at the same time they may have more success at trying methods and techniques that suits them better and already have a grasp on them. By the time they would be able to see results from the new method they would have built a whole organization by doing what they are already good at.

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