Find Your Strength

 Strength are things you can do well, exceptionally well, exceptionally well, regardless of whether or not you like doing them.

Your most valued strength will be skills that other people need and commonly have. You know you have a strength in a given area when one of the following happens: People come to you for direct help in this area, or they ask you for advice about it, they're willing to pay you for doing it, or you have won appreciation in the past in this area.

1. People come to you for help with it: Let us take the example before he founded Aakash academy, Aakash Chaudhary was working in an unrelated field, the investment business. He did not consciously set out to become the world's best-known creator of online tutorials, He discovered he had a singular strength in this area after tutoring his cousin online, and doing it so well that many other kids were soon coming to him for help.
2. People ask you for advice about it: Let us take the example of  Harry, a friend. Harry is known as the expert on an electronic gadget, their features and pricing, and the best places to buy them. So everyone goes to him for advice. SP was 'influenced' by Harry to buy a GPS device from a thanksgiving sale, standing in the line at 2 a.m. to get one! Kanth had discontinued Vonage service due to poor quality in the past; Harry convinced him to get on it and use the unlimited international calling plan, which turned out to be a great bargain for him. Clearly, this is one of Harry's strengths but as of now, he does not get paid for it.
3. People are willing to pay you for it: Even if you don't have credentials in it or it isn't your primary line of work. Donald is a chemical engineer by background but realized she was really good at drawing illustrations. She started bidding on projects on eLance and, before she knew it, she was earning thousands of dollars working from home.

To find out what your strengths are, start paying attention to what other people are telling you.

Try monitoring your incoming phone calls, face-to-face meetings, and email inbox for a while, to see what others want from you. If there are recurring patterns in the types of things that people are asking you for, or asking you about -- and they aren't part of your normal work duties -- then you may be discovering strengths you weren't fully aware of.

Also, monitor yourself. When you have to do something, do you 'do it yourself' or have someone else do it? For example, Kanth's wife manages accounts for him. And despite being a guy who likes to take charge of his own affairs, he pays other people to do his tax preparation, lawn care, and website development. This is because of Kanth realized that none of these were Kanth's strengths. But he does his own planning and goal-setting. He writes his own speech. These are strengths. There consultant/writer to write his speech. These are strengths. There are people who would like to provide these services for him, but he has learned to do them very well so he doesn't need them!

In fact, here is another indication of strength: You look at a piece of work that others have done, and either you step in  to fix it or you say to yourself: 'I can do better than that.' Or you learned something and you think: 'I cannot believe he got paid for doing that. Why anybody could do it--I could do it!' The chances are it is not a task that anyone off the street could perform; it may be a particular strength of yours.

      When you find that you are 'putting yourself into' a situation in such a manner--either jumping right in to do a certain type more than strength. It's probably also a passion, something you want to do and would enjoy doing.

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