Strength Serving Weakness

If your life is not working well, consider developing some alternate skills. It might make an enormous difference in the direction of your life. That's what happened for me.

I was always a pretty good talker. In fact, I had extremely good verbal skills. That was one of my biggest problems.

It was so easy to talk, that I could explain my way out of nearly anything (or I thought I could).

Was I late to work-again? I always had a glib excuse that sounded plausible.

Didn't have the money for this or that bill? I could talk charmingly and extract endless patience from otherwise ruthless bill collectors.

Gosh I was good!

Unfortunately, I used that talent to just scrape by.

Then I moved to Japan to live, and since I could speak very little Japanese, my verbal advantage suddenly disappeared. In effect, I lost all my verbal skills.

Suddenly, I found that explaining my lapses - and missed deadlines - was much, much harder to do.

So much harder, in fact, that it quickly dawned on me - it was far easier to perform properly than to try and explain failures.

And I found a whole new person inside myself.

Gradually I discovered that keeping deadlines was not really any harder than missing them. Actually in many ways, it turned out to be easier. Paying all bills early gave me a new kind of pride that I'd never known before.

What I was learning - in my forties - was the feeling of being a responsible adult.

And all it took was losing my verbal advantage.

They say when a person loses one sense (like eyesight) all their other senses become sharper to compensate for the loss.

That's very close to what happened to me. No longer able to rely on my well-honed gift with words, I found a new gift that produced the results I needed.

And now, anytime I find some part of my life that's not working properly, the first thing I do is look at the skills or abilities I most often use. Then I start looking for other skills that I can substitute - just to see what will happen.

And you know? Many times the "non-standard" approach gets me better, more usable results.

Try this backwards approach to changing things in your life and watch for surprisingly good results.

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