“Do not get pigeon-holed into any one particular position in the game.”

Reframing weaknesses as strengths.

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I met a new friend and Business Therapist over coffee, Cheyenne Seah, and had a super good chat with her on my career moves. We talked about the different perspectives to take on our own strengths, as she used her own methodology to assess where mine lay.

She then used a basketball analogy to explain to me that I should not pigeon-hole myself into a particular position in a game, nor allow anyone to label me one - because I am versatile enough to play in any of the role in a basketball game, depending on what the situation calls for. She encouraged me to maximise this unique strength of being multi-faceted.

Talking to experienced coaches is always useful, even for a coach like myself. That invaluable external perspective makes things so much clearer and easier to understand. There were so many aha! moments with Cheyenne.

How about you? Where are your strengths? Have you mistaken some of them as weaknesses? Can you reframe your lens to see yourself?