Know Yourself

Are you real or fake? Is your outer person the same as your inner person? Is who you are the same as what you do or say? To grow your career to enviable heights, you must be authentic and this starts with knowing yourself because sooner or later people always spot the fakers.

As you grow your career, you will always have to deal with people. Self-discovery and mastery is the foundation of people skills and your success story in this respect starts with convincing yourself that you don’t have all the answers. It’s important that you are honest with yourself. You need to be able to make a candid evaluation of yourself and your realities. Knowing this, you need to keep an open mind and be ready to tolerate from others, the diversity of their viewpoints and mental architectures about you and the way you work, whether it’s what you like to hear or not. Of course, this requires that you keep your ego in check and be more realistic about your problems. Then, you are able to get the courage to accept viewpoints that are opposite to yours and deal with conflicts at work while building the confidence to accept and deal with your own weaknesses.

Your weaknesses easily crumble while your strength develops as you carefully pay attention to your experiences, good or bad. The more you do this, the more you get comfortable with your strengths and not crippled by your inadequacies. You find it easy to take responsibility for your behaviours, adapt to change, embrace new ideas and ways of doing things, and stick to your standards of integrity and honesty under all conditions. This is the sure way to keep growing as you learn from your mistakes and successes.

Colleagues get to respect you when they can feel your inner strength, confidence and ability to help team members deliver results while at the same time expanding their own capabilities. This easily comes to the fore when you learn your specific personal strengths and weaknesses especially in dealing with other people as you build on your strengths and correct your weaknesses. Then you gain credibility as you climb the career ladder, with one person at a time and then the entire workplace.

Have you ever met individuals who claim to have enormous strengths but can't fathom any of their weakness? Do they really know themselves?

You will reach your zenith!