Find Your Strengths --How to Have it All and Eat Your Cake too. Part 1

Did you know that identifying your strengths could lead you to finding your life's purpose or a million dollar business?  Once you focus on your strengths, the world will provide opportunities for you to use them.

Yes, the first essential step to success and wealth beyond your dreams with a successful business model is to know your strengths.   Knowing yourself intimately and exactly what you can and can't do is the best starting point in any online business that you can create for yourself.

So let's get started on finding your strengths...

Now you can think about and work out what your strengths are yourself, you can ask your friends and family, or go to the internet and find some 'Find Your Strengths' assessments or quizzes. Any one or all of these approaches will enable you to learn all sorts about yourself, which you might not know at this very point in time.

Searching for the Answers Yourself

Think about what you are good at and ask yourself questions like:

- What are my skills?

- What do I do everyday that I could teach other people to do?

- What are my hobbies or what do I enjoy doing?

- What things do I get really passionate about?

- What drives me?

- What was I good at in school?

The answers to these types of questions can be really revealing and help you to get to know what makes the world go around for you, and help start the ideas rolling for your very own six figure internet business.

I am willing to bet though that you have left loads of things off the list, and that's why you need to talk to your friends and family, so they can tell you what they think (and know) you are good at.  And if you really wanted to know them, I'm sure they'd tell you your weaknesses too!

Ask Your Friends and Family

Like we said, there is no-one more likely to give you a more honest opinion than your family or close friends.  So go on, ask them what they think your strengths are and be prepared to be pleasantly surprised, as they tell you things that didn't even register on your mind when you were creating your own list of strengths.  If you know yourself and your strengths well, then asking other people their opinions will reinforce your strengths and boost your confidence no end.

Find Your Strengths Assessments on the Internet

Not only are assessments and quizzes fun on the internet, but you can also learn loads about yourself and your driving forces.  The best course that I have found and personally used is the KOLBE index, and Rich Schefren's Strength Mastery Advantage--it goes in depth to help you identify and enhance your strengths.

Conclusion

The point of these exercises is the starting point of creating a six figure internet business that plays to your strengths.  When you start to discover your strengths, you will also find your weaknesses.

Some of your weaknesses will also be needed to create this successful online business.  The best way forward is to create strategic partnerships with people who excel at your weaknesses, but need your strengths.   This is the premise of many successful people and businesses online today. Accepting that you will need other people today, to help you succeed, will shoot you up the path to that million dollar business even faster.