Achieving your Bella Vida by Letty: Analyzing Strengths & Weaknesses

Every Tuesday I'm posting tips to help you succeed in creating your own Bella Vida.  Each post focuses on one particular activity that you can apply to any area of life you wish to achieve success in.  These are tactics can be used for business as well as personal goals.  It's a work in progress that's evolving as I write it.  Previous posts can be found at the bottom of this one.

This week I've changed the title of the series to:

Achieving your Bella Vida by Letty

Once you have a clear objective the next step is to create a strategy.

Strategy: 1. The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of large-scale combat operations. 2. A plan of action resulting from strategy or intended to accomplish a specific goal.


If you have been following my previous posts you know the importance of seeing the big picture, having clear objectives and used my tips to create your personal set of specific objectives.

Now that you know what you want, how do you go about obtaining it?  

The first step to creating your personal Strategy is Self Analysis.

Stratagem: 1. A military maneuver designed to deceive or surprise an enemy.
2. A clever, often underhanded scheme for achieving an objective.

My parents raised me old school.  I had to be creative with the resources at hand.  Your first and main resource is yourself.  To know yourself is to know your strengths and weaknesses.

Strengths vs. Weaknesses

The following are a few questions to help determine your strengths and weaknesses.

Strengths
•    What are your advantages?
•    What do you do well?
•    What do you do better than anyone else?
•    What is your knowledge or expertise?
•    What motivates you?
•    What have been your most notable achievements?
•    To what do you attribute your success?
•    How do you measure your success?
•    What are you passionate about?
•    What is your greatest asset?

Weaknesses
•    What could be improved?
•    What do you do badly?
•    What should you avoid?
•    What are your professional weaknesses?
•    How do they affect your job performance?
•    What causes you to panic?
•    What makes you uncomfortable?
•    What are you afraid of?
•    What are your educational limitations?
•    What are your physical limitations?

Answering honestly benefits you with accurate results.  Analyzing your strengths and weaknesses will enable you to determine the best suited strategy.  Your strengths will determine how much you can do or handle at once.  Your weakness will help you accurately determine how much money and time you will need to invest in the resources you need to obtain success.

Have you ever analyzed your strengths and weaknesses?

Was it a personal goal like winning a triathlon?
or
Was it business related like finding a new career?

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"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious." Sun Tzu 

"If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril." Sun Tzu 

"When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success." John Locke 

"You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it. - Andrew Grove

"War is ninety percent information." Napoleon Bonaparte 

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Previous Posts on this topic
Achieving your Bella Vida by Letty
Objective
Tips for Setting Objectives

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