It takes courage to sit down, analyze yourself, and understand the dynamics of what makes you, you. To be at your best, you must address all the truths of who you are, past and present. You owe that to yourself. You look at your entire life, and all it encompasses and use the truths you uncover to become a better, wiser individual. Learning how to audit your strengths will help you double down on growing yourself and your business.
How good are you at satisfying other people’s 3 fundamental needs without sacrificing your own?
Human behavior is driven by 3 fundamental needs: control, connection, and consistency.
Thanks to evolution, the needs are still with us today.
Individually or combined, they drive everything we think and do. They express themselves in so many ways.
Understanding and acting on those three needs in yourself and others is key to making your way through today’s world. From influencing effectively and achieving what you want. Ready for what these 3 needs are?
Need to feel in CONTROL of one’s life.
Our taste for knowledge, freedom, status, power, insurance, property, astrology, and money comes from this. We avoid and act on losing control over life, whether in reality or just potentially.
Audit your strengths that can help fill this need in someone’s life.
Need for CONNECTION.
There is very little that we can achieve alone. However, evolution has programmed us to believe we can achieve much more by collaborating with others. We also need to feel emotionally connected to the world around us, what we do in it, who we are, and who we might become.
Isolation or exclusion, whether actual or potential, are situations we instinctively fear and may go to extremes to avoid.
Audit your strengths that can help fill this need in someone’s life.
Need for CONSISTENCY.
This need supports the first two. How do we spot threats to our control and connections? How do we spot opportunities to test and improve them? By constantly checking our surroundings for consistencies and inconsistencies.
Consciously or not, we must continue filling gaps, spotting patterns, finding or inventing explanations, and drawing conclusions. The world might seem to be in the turmoil of change, but most of life is consistent. We know from observation and learning that the same causes have the same effects.
Audit your strengths that can help fill this need in someone’s life.
A Few Tips to Help You Audit Your Strengths
One: Pick one need at a time
Usage: Do a brain dump of all the areas that you can see the need used, and write it down. (get feedback from peers and friends, and see what they can contribute) Sometimes our gifts are so close to us that we don’t even recognize where they are used.
Contribution & Success: Try to spot areas where the strength contributes to your success and others’ success. List those successes that you can share with your audience need.
Setbacks: Identify areas where this strength may be setting you back. Sometimes, this can be seen in areas of kindness for weakness, poor boundaries (with good intentions), or otherwise.
Your takeaways: What takeaways from this audit of your strengths? How can you more intentionally use this? Make a note of those as well!
How can you combine your talents to accomplish what you seek?
How can you intentionally use your talents to spot areas of over and underuse to maximize being the best of you!
Keep the audit of your strengths close by where you can reflect back on it every now and again, in case you need that restart button from time to time.
As you go through this process with yourself (and possibly others), we are sure you will come up with some AMAZING ways to conduct your own audit. Our main goal is that this can be a great starting point for getting you on this path.
We would love to hear your stories about how this works for you and even members of your business!
