Now, Discover Your Strengths

In the parable of the talents, God give one person ten talents another person five talents and the third person one talent. While God's distribution of talents were not equal, His expectation was the same for all three; doubling their assets or 100% return. The key to the 100% annual return on assets is found in using your talents. Focus on what God has given you and not what you lack. Our society actually teaches us to focus on our weaknesses and trying to improve on them. This is the opposite of what God teaches us about our talents. He has given each one of us certain talents and he wants us to use them.

In the book "Now, Discover Your Strengths" Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton describe two major flawed assumptions.
1. Each person can be competent in almost anything.
2. Each person's greatest room for growth is in his or her areas of greatest weakness.

The truth is:
1. Each person's talents are enduring and unique
2. Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.

To understand our strengths we must understand that one's strengths are made up of three things:
1. Talents are your naturally recurring patterns of throught, feeling or behavior.
2. Knowledge consists of the facts and lessons learned.
3. Skills are the steps of an activity.

The largest problem we all face is not knowing the strengths that God has given them and that causes them to spend 90% of their time in the market working on what they don't know, instead of what they are good at. If this is you go out and buy the book "Now, Discover Your Strengths" because in it there is a test that they give you that allows you to discover your strengths. Once you have discovered your strengths, focus on applying them over and over again to different problems confront in your analysis or trading.