What Does Knowing “The Truth About You” Have To Do With Living Your Purpose?

He has something to say and he’s sexy!

I watched Marcus Buckingham conduct his Oprah workshop online. Synchronistically, Michelle had just bought his book.  If you remember, I took it from her just before she left for her trip to China.

I ate up every word of, Now, Discover Your Strengths.  I am able to see very clearly that your innate talents when developed into strengths is a perfect venue for your purpose to manifest.  Brilliant!  I say live your purpose in all areas of your life and Marcus is able to give a concrete way of living your purpose at work.  I wrote about my initial experience with Marcus Buckingham and then his staff contacted me offering me a copy of his latest book, “The Truth About You.”

Everything Marcus has to say seems to support living your purpose at work, in a career.  We are taught to deny, hide, or avoid the very truth about ourselves and focus on our weaknesses thinking that they will make us strong.  THEY WON’T.  Focusing on your strengths will make you the strongest.  And from my standpoint focusing on your strengths allows you to engage the energies that allow you to live your purpose.  Underneath everything Marcus teaches he empowers us to do one thing–live an authentic life.

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Warning! Don’t Read This Unless You Want To Get Rid Of Weakness!

Ha! You can’t get rid of your weaknesses, so why are you giving it any attention at all?

You think you can get rid of your weaknesses, but you can’t.  You spend time and energy trying to make yourself better in an area you suck at!  This approach will never make you better at what you aren’t good at, it will just make you feel like a failure.  Have you noticed?  Have you ever thought that you should turn your weakness into a strength?  It won’t work.  You need to focus on what you are good at and let go of what you aren’t.  Guess what?  Someone else is good at what you horrendous at doing.  Hire them!

Our strengths our found in living our purpose.

We are strongest when we share our gifts with the world not when we are obsessing over what we don’t do well.  The best way to do make our significant contribution is by developing our natural talents into strengths.  In this process our purpose will manifest more easily and you’ll be happy camper.   You’ll feel more fulfilled.  You’ll experience life as an empowering adventure.  Don’t ask me how, I don’t know.  I just know fulfillment is the result of developing your innate gifts and you can’t do that when you are investing so much energy into what isn’t working.  Focus on what you are naturally good at and your weaknesses won’t get noticed.

You have natural talents.  Find them!

Each one of us has talents that are unique and endearing; they are innate in us.  Developing our talents is what will contribute the most powerfully to our expression.  When we develop our natural talents, they turn into our strengths.  Use your strengths to get ahead, not your weaknesses!  Our purpose is found somewhere in our strengths, not our weaknesses.  Read more