How to Know and Utilize Your Best Assets

It takes the strength of the mountain to remember the best in life, and utilize it for the sake of the goodness you’ve created.

In that remembrance, you activate your bravery and your hope. You have opportunity to exemplify valor by turning your fear into the kind of daring that becomes inspirational to those around you.

Do you have the courage and daring to live your best life, even in times of adversity?

Do you know your assets? Do you know what makes you shine? When someone says something positive about you, and about what you contribute when you are at your best, what do they say? When do you get the most praise for doing your part? When do you hear a thank-you, no matter how small the task?

Knowing the answers to these questions and focusing on them is you “being on purpose.” This self-recognition takes courage and is positively powerful. It harnesses the energy of contribution and collaboration by accentuating your strengths and talents.

Studies have determined that it is important to know your best assets and to utilize them, even if they are not on the job. If your job doesn’t utilize the best of what you have to give—but pays the bills—it is important to be engaged elsewhere in a way that allows you to contribute your passion and talents. This is a natural way to build your inner resources, while you are exploring and delivering your gifts. Identifying with your best instills confidence and an innate resiliency that can be tapped during hard times.

This choice to remember the best of who you are, and what you bring, is important especially if you are facing a challenge, whether in life or in your health.

You determine where to shine your own spotlight by what you choose to focus on, including how you create “self talk.” Negative thoughts and behaviors can put you in a vulnerable position by breeding destructive thoughts and actions, and tendencies toward self-sabotage. This dynamic squelches courage and hope. Face these self-defeating patterns by recalling your best, and returning to an encouraging and affirming perspective instead. Focus on your positives. That’s daring.

When any of us put ourselves into overload, which can produce fear and resistance, we can “check out” and distance ourselves until we aren’t even present to what we’re doing or how we are managing life. As humans, we are all capable of this. Especially when we are feeling overloaded, which is when we are more likely to give up, and forget about the quality of what we are doing.

It takes courage to recall the best you have to contribute even in difficult times. Create a journal or memory book as a tool to reflect and retrieve the solid foundation you are standing on, even when challenges loom. Remember to appreciate the goodness that’s around you. Thank the people in your life. When you know you are the strength and the foundation of the mountain you climb, you embody courage, will and determination.