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CAREER FOCUS<br />
Building your strengths is foundation while<br />
building on them is the edifice of a wellconstructed<br />
career that will stand out. Many<br />
people build their strengths but for some reason<br />
or the other do not build on them. Some<br />
are just bored. You need to then fight boredom<br />
and construct your career around your<br />
areas of dominant strengths. At best build<br />
projects using your strengths.<br />
Don’t tell me that there are too many barriers<br />
and one of them is finance. Overcoming<br />
such barriers is part of the fun. Would you not<br />
rather fail at doing something than succeed<br />
at doing nothing? Everyone that became<br />
famous became so, understandably, because<br />
of the barriers they overcame to<br />
achieve their dreams. The bigger the barrier,<br />
the greater the results, and the fame that<br />
comes with it.<br />
The Wright Brothers used their engineering<br />
strengths to build the first plane. Alexander<br />
Fleming used his strengths in science to discover<br />
antibiotic which helped cure British soldiers<br />
many of whom were dying on small gun<br />
wounds during World War II. There must be<br />
something worthwhile you can do with your<br />
strengths. If you are not that bold join someone<br />
who is doing well in your fields of<br />
strengths and utilise your strengths.<br />
Third, create projects around your strengths.<br />
Many an African do not realise that creativity<br />
is an art and a process. Even a preacher<br />
who is worth listening to must know how to<br />
create sermons that are informative, inspiring<br />
and impacting. Creating projects around<br />
your strengths means conceptualising and<br />
coming up with projects that would inspire<br />
your strengths to fruition and profit.<br />
I realised my passion to unleash human and<br />
corporate potential a couple of years ago. I<br />
therefore develop writing and speaking engagements<br />
that foster that passion. I create<br />
many of my writings out of speaking to people<br />
who face problems in areas where my<br />
strengths are. It is no small sweat.<br />
What are your strengths? Which projects can<br />
you carry out that can utilise your strengths.<br />
Fourth, Execute projects around your<br />
strengths. Once you have conceived projects<br />
even small ones, you must proceed to<br />
execute them. Once Mark Zuckerberg had<br />
implemented his Facebook Project, he had<br />
to rely on other great talents like Sharon, one<br />
of the best marketers in America to see it into<br />
a global billionaire project. Reliance on other<br />
talents is what is required. There are people<br />
who have complementary strengths you<br />
need, figure out and learn from them. Albert<br />
Einstein was once asked how come he was<br />
able to see and go further than others and<br />
he said, ‘because I learnt to sit on the shoulders<br />
of giants.’ You could only see further<br />
than those on whose shoulders you sit.<br />
Fifth, get results from your strengths. You will<br />
only get the results you plan for in life. Many<br />
people celebrate small results and get them.<br />
Others celebrate quantum results and get<br />
them. There are people happy with a salary<br />
and paying bills. Others want profit and interest<br />
as results, so they engage in projects that<br />
give them such. You have to engage in projects<br />
that give you the results you are looking<br />
for. That is building on your strengths – in career<br />
choice construction. It is constructing a<br />
career that gives you the results that you<br />
want.<br />
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