1. High school years are about more than just fond memories and friends.
2. In profound ways, those years continue to shape our lives, for better or worse.
3. The fortunate among us would feel that they have gotten to know themselves better and have come to appreciate their own unique, innate qualities.
4. I hope that they have also discovered that "what lies within us" is paramount to knowing "what lies behind us" and "what lies before us".
5. Understanding what lies within us is the single most important factor that distinguishes those who enjoy great success from those who don't.
6. Knowing your "wiring" and applying that wiring productively is the key to leading an accomplished and fulfilled life.
7. So, if you are one among so many people who are unaware of their talents and strengths, and yearn to know what to do about it, you can start by remembering what you most yearned to do in your high school years, as it is a fact that these offer clues to identifying your strengths.
8. Every one of us has yearnings, urges that drive us to do the things we do; discovering what those yearnings are, and matching them to a career choice, is what the most successful people do differently.
9. And of course employers should also carefully select and develop their employees for roles that are tailored to their strengths.
10. Research shows that from about the age of 15 onward, our patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving are pretty much set; what most likely changes thereafter is his awareness of what lies within him and his intentional expression of his talent.
11. Remember that suggestions and instructions of our parents, teachers and friends, along with the demands of our jobs, our lives, our families, and even our society itself, often pull us away from our high school yearnings.
12. Before we realize it, our truest feelings become suppressed by what is expedient or what is expected, although our yearnings do not change and we don't lse our strengths.
13. Instead, we simply tend to focus on our weaknesses, like the majority of people in the world do, by ignoring our yearnings and turn a deaf ear to that nagging voice reminding us that we used to enjoy these natural activities till our high school years.
12. Since high school, too many of us have become boring and bored, not because of age, but because we have failed to focus on our strengths.
13. We have not grown as much in self-discovery as we could have - and still can, if we listen to the yearnings already within us since our high school years.
2. In profound ways, those years continue to shape our lives, for better or worse.
3. The fortunate among us would feel that they have gotten to know themselves better and have come to appreciate their own unique, innate qualities.
4. I hope that they have also discovered that "what lies within us" is paramount to knowing "what lies behind us" and "what lies before us".
5. Understanding what lies within us is the single most important factor that distinguishes those who enjoy great success from those who don't.
6. Knowing your "wiring" and applying that wiring productively is the key to leading an accomplished and fulfilled life.
7. So, if you are one among so many people who are unaware of their talents and strengths, and yearn to know what to do about it, you can start by remembering what you most yearned to do in your high school years, as it is a fact that these offer clues to identifying your strengths.
8. Every one of us has yearnings, urges that drive us to do the things we do; discovering what those yearnings are, and matching them to a career choice, is what the most successful people do differently.
9. And of course employers should also carefully select and develop their employees for roles that are tailored to their strengths.
10. Research shows that from about the age of 15 onward, our patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving are pretty much set; what most likely changes thereafter is his awareness of what lies within him and his intentional expression of his talent.
11. Remember that suggestions and instructions of our parents, teachers and friends, along with the demands of our jobs, our lives, our families, and even our society itself, often pull us away from our high school yearnings.
12. Before we realize it, our truest feelings become suppressed by what is expedient or what is expected, although our yearnings do not change and we don't lse our strengths.
13. Instead, we simply tend to focus on our weaknesses, like the majority of people in the world do, by ignoring our yearnings and turn a deaf ear to that nagging voice reminding us that we used to enjoy these natural activities till our high school years.
12. Since high school, too many of us have become boring and bored, not because of age, but because we have failed to focus on our strengths.
13. We have not grown as much in self-discovery as we could have - and still can, if we listen to the yearnings already within us since our high school years.