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Turn Weaknesses Into Strengths

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0:00

Hello there and welcome back to

0:02

another episode of the Manifest podcast.

0:05

And if you have been

0:07

listening to this show for quite some time now,

0:09

you'll know that I usually only

0:11

record episodes when I feel inspired to

0:13

show up behind the microphone. And

0:15

this week has been a wild

0:18

week in so many different ways

0:20

that I am unable to

0:22

describe at this point in time. But let's

0:24

just say that it has

0:26

been not only life-changing and

0:29

awe-inspiring and eye-opening,

0:32

but it has also given me some

0:35

time to reflect on the topic

0:37

of today's show and how I

0:39

can help to serve you

0:41

guys, the listeners of this podcast,

0:43

and the people that remain in this

0:46

community year after year to

0:48

deliver a different vantage point and perspective

0:50

on a topic that I'm really passionate

0:52

about because I have traveled this

0:55

path many, many times. So

0:58

here we go. We are diving in today

1:01

into how strengths can

1:04

be created from weaknesses or turning your

1:06

weaknesses into strengths. I was originally going

1:08

to call this episode from nervous to

1:10

notable. Maybe I still will. I'm not

1:13

sure yet. But transforming

1:16

weaknesses into strengths

1:18

is something that we all do

1:20

automatically. And yet so

1:23

many of us just give up at

1:25

the first sign of struggle. We give

1:27

up because it's either too hard or

1:29

it's seemingly impossible or

1:31

perhaps there are so many different obstacles that have

1:33

been placed on your path and you're just not

1:35

sure how to rise above them, how

1:37

to branch out of your comfort zone and

1:41

see the weakness as an invitation to

1:44

dive into the powerful rewards that

1:46

you will find in strength. And

1:49

I know that this is somewhat of an abstract

1:51

concept, but if you think about it, we've all

1:53

been through it at many different

1:55

points throughout our lives. And so

1:57

when weaknesses become strengths, it typically.

2:00

involves a process of personal growth,

2:02

of course, and acceptance.

2:05

And how do I put this? Strategic

2:08

adaptation. Let's put it that way. So

2:11

here are a few ways in which

2:13

perceived weakness can actually transform into strength.

2:16

So it begins with

2:18

self-awareness and acceptance and recognizing

2:20

and accepting your own weaknesses

2:23

is really the first step

2:25

in turning them into strength.

2:27

So how can you identify

2:30

that the weaknesses,

2:33

the perceived flaws, I

2:37

say flaw, flaw, it's so hard to

2:39

say sometimes thinking, is this going to

2:41

translate into an American set of ears?

2:45

Floor, that's how I would say it, but it sounds like, you know,

2:47

get down on the floor. Anyway,

2:49

I've gone way too far into that to be

2:51

able to backtrack now. FLAW

2:53

is what I was trying to say. So

2:56

that's the self-awareness piece there, right?

2:59

Understanding from my point of view

3:01

that I see a perceived weakness

3:04

as sometimes my Australianism may not

3:06

translate into being understood by different

3:09

audiences. And I think anybody that's from

3:11

somewhere other than the country that

3:14

they were born in goes through this feeling

3:16

of, am I being understood? Am

3:19

I being accepted? Is this being

3:21

challenged? And it can be a

3:23

perceived weakness. But then, right, we

3:25

get this understanding of our own limitations and

3:28

then we get to see the areas where

3:30

the growth is needed. So

3:33

this is where you really spring into the

3:36

framework of having a growth mindset

3:38

and adopting a growth mindset can transform

3:41

your weaknesses by viewing them as opportunities,

3:43

as I mentioned, or this

3:45

is like the more metaphysical way of looking

3:47

at it, you could see it as an

3:49

invitation from the universe, if you will, for

3:52

learning and developing

3:55

beyond what you believe are fixed

3:58

traits. I've always had

4:00

a problem with people that say, well, I am who I am,

4:02

and that's not going to change. And

4:05

I am a big believer in

4:07

what you resist, persist.

4:11

And so with the growth

4:13

mindset, it encourages continuous self-improvement

4:16

and resilience. This

4:18

is the key. So when your weaknesses are showing

4:20

up, you've got to remember that you are a

4:22

resilient soul. You are a resilient

4:24

being, and that God or the

4:26

universe will never give you more than you can

4:29

ever handle at any given time. And

4:32

so there's this availability, if you

4:34

will, to compensate through intentional

4:37

skill development. And

4:39

so sometimes it's by directly tackling

4:41

a weakness. But

4:45

that might not necessarily be the most

4:48

effective approach. So instead, you develop other

4:50

related skills that can compensate. So

4:55

for example, someone who

4:57

is not naturally outgoing might become excellent

5:00

at writing or other forms of communication that

5:02

might not directly mean being on camera. But

5:07

that might not necessarily

5:10

serve the end goal.

5:13

So you have to find that

5:15

complementary role in fashion, for

5:19

instance, or makeup, when you're putting your face together.

5:22

And for those of you that don't wear makeup,

5:24

I don't wear a lot of makeup. I'm a very minimal

5:27

makeup person, very understated.

5:30

I'm not a woman that will spend hours and

5:32

hours and hours in the bathroom unless I've got

5:34

a speaking gig. Hang

5:38

on. I just said I'm not a woman that will

5:40

spend hours and hours and hours in the bathroom. And

5:42

I meant to say, I'm not a woman that will

5:44

spend hours and hours and hours in the bathroom doing

5:46

my makeup. I just will never be that person, because

5:48

I value my time more. I've got more

5:50

important things to do than curl my hair and

5:54

my eyelashes and put a crap

5:57

ton of makeup. However,

6:00

when I was in my early 20s, I

6:02

used to do that every single day. I

6:04

used to put on a full face of

6:07

makeup to take my children to

6:09

school, or actually take my son

6:11

to school because my daughter was still at home with me.

6:13

But I remember that, like all of the mothers in the

6:15

school yard that have on their lipstick and their foundation and

6:18

their eyeshadow and all that kind of stuff. And

6:21

I got to the point where it's like, why am

6:23

I doing this? Why am I doing this? So even

6:25

like 1950s housewife it and like put on makeup before

6:27

my husband got home from work. And

6:29

so that's fine. Of course you can take a pride in

6:31

your appearance. But for me, I began

6:33

to see it as somewhat of a weakness because

6:35

I was sacrificing my sense of self and my

6:37

time, which was precious, just for the

6:40

sake of getting approval through my appearance. Now

6:42

this was probably part of a much

6:44

larger conversation and it

6:48

was a weakness. But when I could

6:50

identify these weaknesses and

6:52

I could rise above them, I remember, oh, let's

6:55

see. Let's dive into the

6:57

world of Sarah Prout and her weaknesses. I

7:01

remember when I

7:03

first stopped drinking and I've since in the

7:05

last couple of weeks had like half a

7:07

glass of champagne and some incredible sake. That's

7:10

it for a while though. I'm ready to hang up my drinking shoes

7:13

again. It

7:17

wasn't a problem. I

7:19

have deep admiration and respect for

7:21

those people out there that have walked a difficult

7:24

path when it comes to any level of substance

7:26

abuse. I never had that, but I just knew

7:28

that not having alcohol was a way that I

7:30

could really protect my energy. And

7:33

also, I think there's a balance to strike for

7:36

people like me that can do that and have

7:38

some fun and then peel it back. But

7:40

it was a weakness in terms of me not

7:42

being able to manage my energy. It's always back

7:44

to that. How does it impact my

7:47

energy? And then if it impacts

7:49

my energy and I do it anyway, then it's a

7:51

weakness. But then that

7:53

awareness is that I can turn that

7:55

into a strength through setting boundaries, through

7:57

setting boundaries.

8:00

limitations through all of the

8:03

things that you can do internally to make

8:05

sure that you're keeping the

8:08

line of integrity where it needs to

8:10

be at any given moment. Does

8:13

that make sense? So let's just say,

8:17

hmm, I saw this ad

8:19

on Instagram, I think it was either

8:22

Instagram or Facebook, and it was this

8:24

doormat that you can get that says,

8:26

please hide all Amazon packages

8:28

from my husband. And I thought,

8:31

what is this? What

8:34

is this? What is this about? Like,

8:36

are there people out there that hide Amazon packages

8:38

from their spouse because they don't want their spouse

8:40

to know how much money they spent on something?

8:44

And then I thought, well, that would be a weakness. And

8:46

then I thought, well, have I ever pulled the price tag off

8:48

something and kind of like downplayed it and gone, oh, you know,

8:50

I got it in sale. Oh, it's great. So

8:52

again, that's a weakness. What can you

8:54

do with that? What can you do

8:57

with those moments where you feel

8:59

like you have to dim your light to

9:02

be understood or to be accepted or

9:04

to feel safe or

9:06

to get approval or have

9:08

control? You

9:11

shouldn't have to do that, right? That's

9:14

the invitation to change the behavior

9:16

and step into the aligned, empowered

9:19

mode of communication. And

9:22

then, of course, if you're in any kind

9:24

of a mutual support system, you

9:26

need to allow for whatever you say

9:28

to be held with

9:31

dignity, with integrity, with grace

9:33

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9:36

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9:38

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9:42

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9:44

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9:46

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9:48

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9:50

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9:52

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9:55

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9:57

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so where were we on this

13:44

magical journey when weaknesses become

13:46

strength from nervousness

13:48

to nervous

13:51

to notable? So okay,

13:54

we've covered self-awareness, we've covered growth

13:56

mindset, compensation through skill development, which

13:58

is really important. finding

14:01

a complementary role and then really

14:03

aligning yourself with how

14:06

you can leverage the perceived weight, weakness because

14:09

it's all in your mind. What

14:11

you see is weakness, is

14:13

strength waiting to be birthed through

14:16

you. Because when you,

14:18

let's just say, embrace your own uniqueness,

14:20

for instance, what might be

14:22

seen as a weakness in one context

14:24

can be a strength in another. For

14:26

example, sensitivity can also be

14:28

seen as somewhat of a liability

14:30

in professional environments because it can

14:33

be a significant asset in roles

14:35

that require

14:37

empathy, for instance, such as counseling or

14:39

customer service. And that's why so

14:41

many different people have different personality types because

14:44

we're not all supposed to be the same.

14:46

So the comparison trap, you have to

14:48

get off that train, so to

14:51

speak, if you are comparing your journey to

14:53

somebody else's journey because no two journeys are the

14:55

same, you see? So

14:58

you need a perspective shift. Changing

15:00

how you view your weakness is

15:03

also how it can change its impact. So

15:06

it's like this, it has this

15:08

movable energy to it that when

15:10

you shine a light on it, when you bring

15:13

alchemy to it, when you bring light

15:15

codes of laughter and

15:17

humility to

15:20

the weakness or the perceived weakness,

15:22

you actually transform it, you transmute

15:24

it, you turn it from

15:27

pain into power. And

15:30

so seeing a straight, that just straight, seeing

15:32

a trait, something like stubbornness,

15:34

for instance, as tenacity

15:36

instead of stubbornness or detail-oriented

15:38

nature such as meticulousness can

15:40

redefine those traits in a

15:42

positive light. It's all about

15:45

how you can take

15:47

the weakness and spin it into

15:49

a strength. So for instance,

15:53

I struggled for many years thinking

15:55

that I was a perfectionist, that

15:58

I had like all of these little

16:00

micro control mechanisms in place that

16:03

I like to do my own graphic design work in My

16:06

business. I like to do everything

16:08

myself. I'm fiercely independent

16:12

so I had to I Had

16:14

to look at the perfectionism. I had to think

16:17

well am I really a perfectionist because you know

16:19

I'm not I love seeing things that are

16:21

slightly flawed again back to the floor and

16:26

in Japanese culture there is this Art

16:29

form in ceramics called Kintsukoroi

16:32

which means Actually, I'm

16:34

gonna pause this to make sure that I

16:36

get this right because if if

16:39

I don't get this one, right It's gonna

16:41

be funny Okay,

16:43

so please forgive me if you

16:46

happen to be familiar with the

16:48

Japanese language and I am royally

16:50

screwing this up But

16:53

it's called kintsugi I believe

16:56

or Golden joinery

16:58

and it's also known as

17:00

kintsukoroi Which is called

17:02

a repair and this is the Japanese

17:04

art of repairing broken pottery by mending

17:06

the areas of breakage With

17:08

this special lacquer that's dusted and

17:10

mixed with powdered gold silver or

17:12

platinum The Philosophy

17:16

is that it treats the breakage

17:18

and the repair of the history of

17:20

the object rather than something to disguise

17:23

it This

17:26

makes me want to loop back to the the

17:28

makeup story that I was going to say before

17:30

and I went on to a completely different Tangent

17:33

that when you apply makeup, right? You

17:36

a lot of women and some men of course

17:39

apply makeup to hide

17:41

their floors, right? I have a

17:44

skin cancer scar on the right hand side of

17:46

my face And that's only fairly new because I

17:48

got it removed early last year

17:50

and it was quite a big surgery And

17:52

it's left me with like this little silver

17:55

indent on my cheek and

17:57

I'm or I was extremely

17:59

self-contradent of it for the first few minutes.

18:02

I didn't go on video, I didn't go on camera, I didn't

18:04

allow anyone to take photos of me, I could feel it on

18:06

my skin, I kept on touching it like, oh god, is this

18:08

ever going to go away and flatten out? And

18:10

I think it's got to the point now where it's going to be as

18:13

good as it ever is going to be, and I'm

18:15

okay with that, right? So when

18:17

I apply makeup though, it hides it completely,

18:19

but that's missing the point. Because

18:21

as my face moves, when I laugh, when

18:23

I smile, when I cry, when I'm in

18:27

the rain and the makeup washes up slightly and you

18:29

get to see the scar beginning to emerge

18:31

underneath the makeup, does

18:33

that make me any less perfect?

18:36

Or any less, you know,

18:39

attractive? No, it

18:41

doesn't. It's only a perceived

18:43

weakness because of my mind and the way

18:45

that my mind views it, that

18:48

I have a blemish. But it could be

18:50

the same way as this whole pottery business

18:53

goes, that the philosophy is

18:55

that I'm embracing

18:58

the imperfection. And,

19:00

you know, the

19:02

idea is that you

19:05

cannot truly be

19:08

broken. So

19:11

there is no weakness that

19:14

is not truly meant to

19:16

be embraced and celebrated

19:19

and then either healed if it's a destructive weakness. So

19:21

let's just talk about addiction for a moment and go

19:24

back to that. If it's a destructive weakness like

19:26

addiction, you don't have to, you know,

19:28

celebrate and go, yay, you know, I am,

19:32

I love whatever it is. And I'm not

19:34

going to say anything specific because I don't

19:36

want to upset anybody. I'll say sugar. I'm

19:38

a sugar addict. That's kind of nice and

19:40

safe, right? I myself

19:42

have been a sugar addict over the years, me

19:45

and jelly beans, right? It's

19:48

a weakness. It won't be a strength, but

19:51

I can celebrate it. I can celebrate it, you know,

19:54

any way I perceive that I need

19:56

to. Here's

19:59

the here's the crux here that

20:03

turning your weakness into a strength is

20:07

either a long journey or a short

20:09

journey depending on your perspective and

20:12

it always brings it back to

20:14

perspective. How are you going to

20:16

view a situation and then

20:19

alchemize it metaphysically to fit

20:22

into the framework of your

20:24

values? So you know

20:27

what you perceive as a weakness somebody else

20:29

could see as an incredible strength. So

20:32

for instance with my voice I

20:36

can't believe I'm laughing right now but I will

20:38

I'll go here. I

20:41

remember when I was learning how to speak

20:43

in public and I was doing a speakers

20:45

training boot camp very amazing

20:47

program by my dear friend Scott

20:49

de Molen and the

20:51

program was called engage from your stage. So if you

20:53

google that and you look that up and you want

20:56

to be a speaker please look him up he is

20:58

incredible. And I remember we

21:00

had to get up and speak in front of

21:02

the room of people and this was before I

21:04

had landed any official speaking gigs and my career

21:07

as an author you know I

21:10

was on the path to landing more speaking

21:12

gigs and so I had to hone this craft and

21:14

keep in mind I'm a very soft

21:18

spoken person most of the time. Those

21:20

who know me know that I have a little bit more

21:22

spirit and backbone but I don't

21:25

I don't often raise my

21:27

voice and so I had to speak to this room and

21:29

my voice I thought was loud was actually coming

21:32

across as quite soft and quiet

21:34

and gentle and

21:37

also that is a weakness. I've always seen my

21:40

voice as somewhat of a weakness that people are

21:42

going to understand me am I too quiet but

21:45

then I learned how to use it and I learned

21:47

how to use it from focusing

21:49

on a different part of my energetic

21:53

system that wasn't necessarily my

21:55

voice box or my throat it

21:57

was my heart it was

22:00

anchored into my heart and giving

22:02

full permission to my heart to

22:05

bring strength to my perceived

22:08

weakness. And

22:10

there are so many ways that I would love to be

22:12

able to do this in life. My cooking skills, I always

22:14

say I'm a terrible cook. I always tell

22:16

people I can't swim even though I'm not a strong

22:18

swimmer but I can kind of swim. I

22:20

couldn't save myself if I was in water but you know. Is

22:26

that a weakness? Yes. It goes back

22:28

to what I was saying before about this is what

22:30

you do. You bring the compensation

22:32

through skill development. If

22:35

it's truly bothering you, do something

22:38

about it. And that's

22:40

the difference between being let's just say

22:42

a victim versus a

22:44

survivor or a thriver. Somebody

22:46

that actually takes their story

22:49

and they weave that pain

22:51

into power. They

22:53

spin their struggles into gold. And

22:56

that's where the magic happens, right? When

23:00

we can truly,

23:02

truly go into how

23:06

weaknesses or even

23:08

nervousness with my public speaking for

23:10

instance becomes a testament to the

23:12

perseverance that's required in our ability

23:14

to grow. Because

23:17

when you neutralize your anxiety

23:20

around these things, you

23:22

can rise above them and

23:24

transform a weakness into a

23:27

significant strength benefiting you

23:29

in body, in mind, in spirit. All

23:32

of those wonderful ways that happens. Just

23:37

remember that you can

23:40

achieve anything that you put your mind

23:42

to. Anything.

23:45

And so what you see is a weakness in others as

23:47

well. Hold them

23:50

through that. Don't shame them for it. Hold

23:52

them through that. I

23:54

have so much more to say about that that I

23:56

cannot today. Let's put it that way. so

24:00

important that if somebody has a

24:02

weakness that you don't go in for the kill right

24:04

and push those buttons dig

24:07

the knife in twist the knife you

24:10

hold compassion you hold curiosity

24:14

you hold a possible

24:16

solution of support solution

24:18

and support not

24:21

both jumbled into the one but

24:23

both for holding

24:25

the weakness in reverence that

24:28

anything that can be identified can be

24:30

transformed if it is meant to

24:32

if you completely accept and embrace your weaknesses

24:34

and you celebrate them that's

24:36

great but what is that ultimately doing for you

24:39

in the long run now

24:41

the weakness could be that you have a mindset

24:43

where you just can't be bothered going on a

24:45

dating app and you know like

24:47

meeting new people or you

24:50

can't be bothered working out or if

24:52

you really like walking for instance if

24:54

you really like walking and

24:56

you're not walking what

24:59

would have to happen for you

25:01

to actually build the strength rather

25:03

than let the weakness win to go out

25:05

for a walk around the block and it's

25:07

just it's bringing it back to the simplicity

25:09

of that that will really be the key

25:11

distinguishing feature between

25:14

you being proud of yourself

25:16

and knowing that you are

25:18

capable of achieving whatever you set your

25:20

mind to versus allowing

25:22

life to happen to you instead

25:25

of for you and through you and

25:28

sometimes you really just have to pull your own head out

25:30

of your butt i'm just going to say it right you

25:33

i'm just going to say it there's no

25:35

way around it sometimes we uh we ostrich

25:37

it and we stick our heads in the

25:40

sand and we're like i don't want to

25:42

see this i will do anything

25:44

i can to create a protective mechanism i

25:46

will drink too much i'll eat too

25:49

much i'll you know sleep around whatever

25:52

and you just don't

25:54

want to confront the pain of seeing

25:57

who you truly are seeing yourself

26:00

in your full magnificence, even

26:03

if it is perceived weaknesses, which

26:05

are just like, the weaknesses are like tiny little

26:07

seeds that you plant in the garden that turn

26:09

into an oak tree. You

26:14

know, an oak tree starts with an acorn, and

26:16

sometimes our weaknesses are those acorns, and

26:18

our strengths are these massive oak trees.

26:22

And we can't see the top of these

26:24

trees because they've grown through many, many different

26:26

lifetimes of wisdom and learned

26:30

experiences and, you

26:35

know, how life unfolds is

26:37

gross. That's what I'm trying to get here with the

26:39

tree analogy that I think I might be missing the

26:41

mark with, but stay with me here. The

26:46

way our souls

26:48

develop is

26:51

by being a little

26:53

afraid of uncertainty,

26:57

but being comfortable with uncertainty and trusting

26:59

that whatever is on the other side

27:01

of that uncertainty, the fear around other

27:03

people perhaps seeing our weaknesses, is

27:06

this magnificent reward from

27:08

the universe. So

27:11

I'll leave you with that for today. Thank

27:13

you so much for being here for another

27:15

episode of the Manifest Podcast. I

27:18

love you guys. I love this community. I

27:21

love the energy that's generated here. And I love

27:23

that you stick with me with this, because sometimes

27:25

my tangents, sometimes

27:28

my tangents and my channeling and

27:30

the transmissions take me to the most unexpected

27:32

places. So I really

27:35

appreciate if this brings a smile

27:37

to your face, if this gives

27:40

you the light codes that you need to move forward in

27:43

your life in some way. See this as a sign that

27:45

you are on the right path and

27:47

that everything always manifests in perfect

27:49

divine timing and not a moment

27:51

sooner. And with that, happy

27:54

manifesting and bye for now.

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