Concentrate on your strengths, not faults!

When you grade your week, start at the top – not the bottom – of your achievements.

You’ve certainly heard that you’re as week as your weakest link, but that’s only the bad news. The good news is that you are certainly as strong as your strongest link. Unfortunately, the worlds preoccupation with human frailty can make you forget your strengths.

Members of some religions confess their sins to an unseen priest who dictates the required penance for their “weak links.” Wouldn’t it be great to voice your success and achievement each week to an eager authority who’d decree congratulations and give symbols of success for your “strong links?”

Some of the world’s most successful people were once judged by their weak links. Thomas Edison’s teacher called him addle-brained, his father called him a dunce, and his headmaster warned he would never make a success of anything. He was kicked out of school in the eighth grade.

Albert Einstein was considered retarded until he was 9 years old. Until then he rarely spoke and refused to answer questions. Winston Churchill was so hyperactive that no college wanted to admit him. He had to take entrance exams three times to enter a university.

Being judged by their weakest links didn’t prevent these three men from grasping greatness, and society – in remembering them – recalls only their accomplishments, not the predictions of their ill fate.

When you look back upon your week, which do you remember the strongest? An argument – or a loving exchange? A smile, or a look of disapproval. A compliment, or a subtle insult? An accomplishment, or a mistake you made?

Which do you remember – a time of procrastination, or a time well spent? A headache, or a feeling of energy and vitality? A clerk who was pleasant, or one who was surly?

To judge yourself, or to judge others, by weakness makes no sense. Link yourself with the positives in your life: don’t chain yourself to the errors.

Tranz Talkz puts positive emotional power in your life:

1. Practice pride: Tell someone about one of your recent achievements.
2. Practice growth: Read a newspaper story you would ordinarily skip.
3. Practice responsibility: Make a list of three special things to do next week.