Your skill set
You want to play to your strengths. Do you know your strengths? Think about the abilities you call on to accomplish what you want. Those characteristics you would like people to mention when they talk about you. The things you would mention on your job application if your were applying for the job of being you.
Would you want to apply for the job of being you?
We call them skills. That is to remind you that
you have a set of them,
you
choose among them,
you can improve one,
you can neglect another,
and you can get
new ones by
practice.
Skill. My ability to accomplish some result,
developed and shaped through hard work and practice.
Talent. Another person’s ability to accomplish some result,
given to them by good fortune and nature.
So what are those skills? This is a trick question, of course. It is like asking you which way you turn the faucet to get the water to run. Your wrist knows how to do that. Your language channel probably doesn't. Not unless you've done plumbing work. And there’s a clue.
Any pro can call the tools by name.
You don’t talk about a skill, you use it. You developed it in connection with a set of cues. When those cues are around, you will use the skill almost without noticing. Without the cues, the skill goes unused.
To get your language channel up to speed on your skills, you will have to talk to yourself about them. In case you want help on that, we listed some common personal skills in the Cuepon venue. We have also listed some of the more common skills on the right, along with links for further exploration.
Focus. The skill is in focusing on something that will be important to you next month.
Forecasting. You don’t have to be psychic after all.
Goals. The skill is in knowing your goals. And in matching your action to your goals.
Imagery. Use it for planning, preparing, forecasting, warming up, remembering.
Memory. The skill is not in amazing memory but in useful memory.
Perspective. The skill is taking it when you want it.
Problem-Solving. The skill of putting your skills together to get what you want.
Relaxing. The skill is in getting some use out of it.
Self-Awareness. The skill is in listening to the quiet parts of your brain.
Self-Confidence. The skill is in knowing what you can do.
Here are some things you may want to check on:
Do you have skills that you want to use more often?
Do you have skills that other people haven’t noticed?
Do you notice any skills you wish you had?
Do you notice any skills that are favorites of people around you?
Do you notice any skills that you use too readily?
Check your assets. Maybe you really are underrated.
Maybe you even underrate yourself.
Are you satisfied with your set of favorite skills? If so, you get to feel smug. If not, get to know them better. Save smug till later.
Thinking Tools. There’s more to thinking than most people think.
Strengths
Skills you are already good at.
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