Celebrate Your Flaws

105. Celebrate your flaws.

“You know what your problem is…?” Flaws are not a problem, not knowing your flaws is. There are two aspects to flaws. The first one is not knowing what flaws you have. As we are building our life, there will always be areas that need repair. The problem is that there are times we aren’t too sure what really needs to be fixed. Now as was just mentioned, a coach can help us find our flawed areas and then help us apply goals and strategies to repair these areas. This is exactly how the building process of a life works. But you can’t fix what you don’t know needs fixing.

Oftentimes we could ask those around us what they believe are the areas we could use a little work on. Be sure when doing this to ask someone you respect who will give you an honest answer. Also, don’t pick someone who doesn’t have the guts to tell you what you need to hear.

The second aspect of celebrating our flaws is to understand that some of the flaws we have aren’t flaws at all. They are simply characteristics that make us who we are. Many of these flaws without modern miracles or drastic plastic or personality surgery cannot be fixed. You may have a funny laugh, weird ears or just find something about yourself you don’t like that no one else even notices. The risk comes when we become fixated on these so-called flaws. In doing so they take crucial mind time from other areas we can really do something about.

The most successful people in the world find a way to laugh at themselves. When you do this you relax about some of the things you may not like about yourself. There are flaws that we need to work on and then there are flaws we need to embrace. When you use this Tool to do both, you improve the areas that need change and stop wasting time on the areas that don’t.