Ceri Payne, M.Ed, is a certified life coach with The Life Coach School. She created her successful life coaching practice while parenting three teenagers, teaching special education full-time, supporting her husband in his demanding career, and serving as the President of her Church's Women's Organization.   

Ceri works with creative entrepreneurs, many of whom have ADHD, helping them streamline their priorities and goals while simplifying their business, and schedules so that they have time and mental energy to continue to grow their successful business, strengthen family relationships, and have time for themselves.

Lead with our strengths in all areas of life

When your strengths become stronger, then we are able to develop in areas in which we are weaker so we can now develop that. 

Doing the things that are strengths for us is the best way to do more of what we’re good at and will build our confidence.

The more you lead with your strengths the faster your business and confidence will grow?

How do you know what strengths you have to use?

We all have talents, but sometimes it may take a while to figure out what you have. You can start out by just believing that you have them. Ask yourself these questions:

1. What do I enjoy doing?
2. What do other people say that I’m good at?
3. What do I get complimented on?
4. What is something that I can easily do for hours?
5. What is something I enjoy learning about?
6. What comes easily to me?
7. If I had to talk to a group of people for 30 minutes, what would I talk about?

The answers to these questions will help you know what actions and what topics you like. They will also help you to understand what feeling you like to have when using those strengths.

Don’t confuse inexperience with weakness. One of today’s biggest challenges is to perform well right now and not be willing to fail. We can develop a new strength if we give ourselves the space to grow. Don’t let fear stop you. You can be scared to do something, but still work on it and develop it into a strength. 

Hire Out or Do Without

If you are able to hire out some part of your life then it frees up time to do more of what you love. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re paying someone to do something, but rather that you assign someone else to take on that task or you perform a trade. 

This allows you to do more of what you love and less of what you don’t enjoy. When we look at spending money as an exchange to do more of what we love, that’s empowering.

Also, recognize what the “needle movers” are in your business. What are the things that are making you grow and do more of that. So many times we focus on things that we think we “have” to do, but they aren’t helping us. Those are the things we can do without.

You could take all of the business courses, tips, and tricks to be successful, but if you don’t believe in yourself, those things will be of no value to you. Build your confidence and recognize the value of believing in yourself. It will make all the difference in what you are learning. 

If we are growing a business or doing something different that we've never done before…What if we just expected that we could learn what we didn't know?

It isn’t because you are talented that you can succeed. It’s that you have the ability to believe in yourself. 

Connect with Ceri at www.britbennion.com/115

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