Our Greatest Strengths are our Greatest Weaknesses

I agree, this is quite a strange thought.  In an effort to make sense of this post, I have to list my strengths.  Hopefully it won’t be TOO difficult!

Here we go – My Strengths are:

1.       I am loyal.

2.       I am a hard worker.

3.       I am organised.

4.       I am a VERY good listener.

5.       I genuinely care.

6.       I am friendly.

7.       I am a creature of routine.  Once I start a routine, I keep to it.

8.       I love.

9.       I am responsible.

The above is just a few.  If I have DAYS to think abou it, I can come up with quite a few.  I think I am quite a “strengthy” type of person! 

All these strengths are good character traits (thanks to my wonderful genes!) and I am happy to boast with each and every one of them.  I do however think that each strength can also be a weakness if not used as properly intended.

Let’s go through them again, now indicating why it is also my weakness:

1.       I am loyal – This makes me reluctant when looking out for new job opportunities.  This is also a problem when concerning my friends.  I believe them and “fight” for them no matter what, just to realise I was wrong, they DO have a problem.

2.       I am a hard worker – I sometimes forget the things that matters most.  If I get started I ONLY talk about work.  Not a very good balance.

3.       I am organised – I am organised in chaos!  I know, I know, not ideal, but I know where everything is when everything is in a mess!  Does that necessarily make me unorganised?

4.       I am a VERY good listener – Sometimes TOO good.  People talk to me about everything, I mean EVERYTHING.  Why, I don’t know.  Do I have a listening face?  I love to listen, but NOT while I have something else that is very urgent to complete.

5.       I genuinely care – As with listening, maybe TOO much!  I care so much, that I have had more than my fair share of hurt in my short, young life.

6.       I am friendly – I think I give some people the wrong impression?!

7.       I am a creature of routine.  Once I start a routine, I keep to it – Oh, I struggle to stop a bad routine!!

8.       I love – Care and love are very close to each other for me.  So love, yes … it hurts!

9.       I am responsible – It’s good to be responsible, but I also want to rebel and do strange, weird, silly and TOTALLY wack stuff!

Point is, each strength is accompanied by a weakness.