Strengths Finder 2.0

Pink House Team
Pamela Madore

Strengths Finder 2.0 is a book by Tom Rath about, as the name suggests, finding your strengths. Sometimes your strengths can drive you nuts.

One of my strengths is "achiever".  I am a very high achiever which means that at the end of the day, I must have accomplished something.  The interesting part about that is, if you have a particular thing in mind that you want to accomplish and the plan go sideways, you can't replace it.  It becomes very frustrating.

Rath talks in his book about achievers starting every day at zero and having to accomplish something every single day or achievers become dissatisfied. 

This really makes it hard to take a day off or go on vacation.  Achievers are often obsessed about their work.  For me, when I plan a vacation I already have also planned what One Thing I can do each day related to work that I can accomplish that day.

These are things you hear from high achievers.  "Don't waste my time." or "I got nothing done today." Distractions are fine just as long as they don't stand in the way of accomplishing what you need to do that day.

Take today, for instance.  My goal for achievement today was to write a few blogs.  Unfortunately, my creative juices are not cooperating.  If I don't get this done today, however, I won't be happy.

The upside of being am achiever is that you really do get a lot accomplished.  The trick is to focus that accomplishment on the things that really matter.

My team and I are in the process of putting our 2014 goals in place.  Being a high achiever, this is a very important step.  If every day starts at zero then so does every week, month, and year.  My job is to focus on the steps we need to take and then achieve them every day.  Then I will feel satisfied.

#highachiever

Pamela Madore
Pink House Team
Keller Williams Realty
7304 SW 34th
Amarillo, TX 79121
806*290*1920
http://pinkhouseteam.com