Don't Waste Your Time

You succeed by finding ways to capitalize on who you are, not by trying to fix who you aren’t.

-Marcus Buckingham

Thomas Jefferson was not a good public speaker, but he knew it. He spent little time trying to compete with the great public speakers of his time. Instead, he wrote —and write he did. We can thank him for the Declaration of Independence.

Don’t waste your time trying to ‘fix’ your weaknesses. Mitigate them and find ways to compensate, but don’t spend time there. Spend your time on what is natural. Natural doesn’t mean it’s easy or fun. You will know the difference and feel it in your bones. The pull draws you in. The pain of better will be good pain. The joy of your progress will soothe.

You have one or two things where you have the potential to be the best in the world. Really. Focus your effort there.

There is nothing easy about this

Take care,

Kelly