Your Weakness is Your Strength

There is a great group by the name of Gnarls Barkley, which a line from one of their songs states, "Knowing your weakness is what can make you strong."

This is powerful because the only way one can grow and mature as a human being is to acknowledge their weaknesses. Buried in each weakness is a lesson that makes us stronger.  A lesson that guides us toward realizing that we do not know everything and can not do everything.  Learning your weaknesses is like hitting a wall which causes you to stop, stand still, and think for a moment.  If you have ever ran through a maze then you know what I mean.  Life is like a maze, at times we become confident and move fast and turn corners without thinking then all of sudden we hit a dead end.  The dead end could be losing a job; maybe the universe is trying to pull you in another direction.  The dead end could be a failed opportunity; maybe that opportunity would have blocked something better.  The dead end could be a broken heart; maybe, just maybe, it is trying to teach you to value yourself more than others.

Our weaknesses help to define and sharpen our lives so we are able to move forward in the pattern and way that will help us to create a life designed for our personal purpose.  When we come against a dead end we usually ask ourselves 3 questions: 1) What did I do wrong? 2) Could I have done something differently? 3) Is this right for me and should I try again?  

By asking those questions we learn about ourselves.

We become closer and closer to our authentic self
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When you face your weaknesses that is when you began to become whole.  If you have a vase with cracks in it and you continuously tape up the cracks without truly fixing it, eventually the water will begin to leak out.  The cracks will begin to connect and the vase will no longer be whole.

This is just like us as human beings.  We find weaknesses and we cover them with stuff such as drugs, alcohol, people, money, laziness, and excuses.  Each weakness that we do not address leaves a crack in our soul and soon we are not able to hold anything within because we are no longer whole. This is how depression, anxiety, shame, and guilt creeps into our lives.

You know the greatest sound within music is the silence between the notes.  Without the silence there is just noise, one long note, but how, where, and how often the silence (the break between notes) is inserted makes the song slow tempo, fast, or mid tempo.  It gives music its genre whether jazz, hip-hop, pop etc.

So if you do not want to just create one long noisy musical note....

STOP!!! LOOK AT YOUR WEAKNESSES, HONOR THEM, AND LEARN FROM THEM


(Tuesday Blog: how to honor your weaknesses)