Strategy number two from our lessons in The Power of Focus is on using your natural brilliance for breakthrough success motivation and positive change.

You must invest most of your time every week doing what you do best and let others do what they do best.

Natural Brilliance is strategy number two from The Power of Focus and is also called Priority Focus. Priority Focus is when you direct your time and energy on the things you are naturally brilliant at.

Natural Brilliance is exhibited in those activities that you do well in, excel in and allow you reap the greatest rewards from your investment of time and energy spent on those activities. Priority Focus means that you don't focus your time and energy on things you don't excel in. Instead, you delegate those things to the natural brilliance of someone else.

When you focus on those things that you are naturally brilliant at, you will find that you are able to produce extraordinary result from your efforts. You begin to operate from a position of strength and energy. You will begin to find and create opportunities for change and breakthrough.

Here's the deal. A great way to eliminate frustration, drift and average results from your life is to focus on your unique talents, giftings and natural inclinations followed by a committment to refining them.

For example, an athlete will focus and refine his or her unique strengths by practicing continually to increase their level of performance. They don't waste time on unproductive activities like coaching or management, right?

What are you naturally brilliant at? Natural Brilliance is simply those things you are naturally good at. Are you wasting time focusing on and building up weaknesses instead of your strengths?

Let's explore this a little further. I would bet that you probably are focused on managing and strengthening more of your weaknesses than your strengths. That's okay! I've been there and have to continually watch this myself. :-) But here's why I would venture this conclusion about you.

Most of use were taught by our schooling to focus on improve on our weaker subjects and not spend as much time on the subjects we did well in.

This line of thinking seeks to drive home the idea of developing a broad level of competency in many subjects instead of establishing a priority focus on a few subjects that you excel at. The result of this approach is that you spend to much time focusing your time and energy on building up weaknesses. You ultimately end up having stronger weaknesses instead of stronger strengths!

Majoring in the minor things of life is a ticket to mediocrity and average results

Of course this doesn't mean you neglect weaker subjects in school or subjects you don't like. The point I'm making is about balance and understanding the power of Priority Focus for a competitive advantage in the real world. I agree with book, The Power of Focus on the fact that this should be taught in school. It is an invaluable discipline to develop for lifelong happiness, prosperity and success motivation.

Here are 4 questions to help you identify your natural brillance:

1. What do you do effortlessly and without a lot of preparation and study?
2. What do you do that other people find difficult? This would include things that cause others to marvel at you and things that others can't come close to matching you on.
3. What opportunities exist in todays marketplace for your natural brillance?
4. What can you create using your unique gifts and talents?

Your biggests rewards in life will result from the time you spend on your top rated skills and abilities.

You no doubt have range of talents and abilities that you are brilliant at, competent at and really aren't good at. Rate your abilities on scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being naturally brialliant of the highest order and focus on those 10 rated abilities.

You have God-given talent that are keys to your success motivation and positive change. Your success motivation goals should or in my opinion, must be planned and acted upon with the knowledge of your greatest strengths and how to use them to improve your performance. A portion of lifes struggles can be eliminated by simple matching your job or business endeavors with the right strengths.

Natural Brilliance is a reference to those activities you do effortlessly, that give you energy and that produce that greatest results and income for you.

Your level of brilliance is very instrumental in determining the size of your opportunities in life.

To learn more about Priority Focus for powerful success motivation and to take a Priority Focus Workshop that will help you discover, define and deploy your natural brilliance I highly recommend The Power of Focus.

Check out page 54 of The Power of Focus for the Priority Focus Workshop - Your practical six-part guide to maximizing your time and productivity.

Click here to learn more about this series on The Power of Focus.

T. L. Pakii Pierce
"Think Well...Finish Strong!"

November 8, 2004 in Success Motivation | Permalink

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I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN.THIS I SAY BECAUSE I HAVE VERY LONG AND VERY PROFOUNDLY EXPERIENCED WHAT IT MEANS TO BUILD STRONGER WEAKNESSES AND CONSEQUENTLY STRONGER, BIGGER FAILURES AND GRADUALLY STRUGGLING TO KEEP MY SELFESTEEM. IT SOUNDS SO CONTRADICTORY BUT IS SO,SO TRUE. IAM NOW ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY AND YOUR ARTICLE IS AN AFFIRMATION OF MY THOUGHTS. VERY HEARTWARMING AND A BIG MOTIVATION TO KEEP GOING ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS. GOD BLESS YOU.

Posted by: Carmen at Jan 22, 2008 2:49:57 PM

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