For some unknown reason I am both cursed and blessed with a natural ability to do accounting. So much so, that some people consider it a strength.
I am blessed because when you run a business it is good to have a firm grasp on the numbers.
Yet I am cursed because I actually really hate doing accounting. Nothing sucks the passion from my veins as quickly as doing accounts.
So is accounting a strength? Just because you are good at something, does that make it something you should do?
No
I believe strengths, real strengths are the things that you are really good at, and really passionate about.
According to Strengths Finder 2.0 my strengths are Strategic, Ideation, Futuristic, Competition and Self Assurance. And I am actually quite good at these things, just like accounting.
When I am doing them I feel like I have hit my sweat spot. I am passionate about whatever I am applying towards. I am energised.
Your strengths are things you are passionate about and really good at.
Go find them this week.
Work on them.
Nurture them.
It will energise you.