Wir wachsen nicht wegen unserer Schwächen. Wir wachsen nicht, weil wir uns zu sehr auf unsere Defizite konzentrieren! Oder anders formuliert: Stärken sollte man stärken und sich die Schwächen leisten. Warum letzteres so schwer ist, beschreibt Carmine Coyote im Slow Leadership Blog und gibt gleich noch ein paar Gegenstrategien auf den Weg:

  • Don’t waste energy looking for gaps and deficiencies. We all have some. Big deal.
  • Don’t assume the glass is half empty, when it’s simply half a glassful.
  • Don’t mistake fearful beliefs for reality, commonplace thoughts for truth, and worries for real problems. Nearly all such opinions and thoughts are wrong and the gaps don’t exist outside your mind.
  • Don’t focus on life’s negatives. It’s uncertain and difficult enough without adding to the problems.
  • Don’t buy the foolish idea you have a right to be happy. There’s no such right. Sometimes you’ll feel happy, sometimes sad and very often neither. That’s the way life is.
  • Stop watching your emotions. They’re not worth it. They go up, then down, then up again like the stockmarket. No one really knows why, whatever they try to tell you, not even mental health professionals. You can’t will your emotions go or stay where you want, so quit driving yourself nuts by trying.
  • A good way to start clearing up the problems in your life is by throwing away all your old, wrongheaded beliefs and assumptions. Many of them will be plain wrong; others will be long out of date.