What things are on both lists?
This is a crucial question. The activities that you want to build your life and work around are the ones that you do well and that give you energy. The best life strategy I know of is to spend time and effort developing skills and abilities based on your strengths. At the same time, make your weaknesses irrelevant. You can make a weakness irrelevant by choosing jobs and projects where it doesn’t matter. You can make a weakness irrelevant by “outsourcing it” or getting someone else to handle it or help you with it. You can make a weakness irrelevant by learning to do things you’re not good at “well enough.” Questions to Help You Learn about How You Do Things The following questions will help you discover how you do things. Understand how you do things and you can identify ways to get more done more effectively. Understand how you do things and you can watch for potential conflicts when others do things differently. I’ll use my friend, Bill as an example. Let’s start with a question abou
