Find Your Strengths and Find Success

At Global Experiences, we focus on developing skills and life changing opportunities for students all over the world. As an active team member in this globe-trotting group, I have come to realize just how unique each of our strengths and weaknesses truly are and how much I have in common with the students that we successfully place season after season.

We spend the majority of our adolescence and adult lives carving out our little piece of the world and figuring out where we fit in the big picture of society. For every employee at Global Experiences, this process has included either an international internship or travel experience.

Each year, we pop the champagne and resolve to correct certain setbacks of the previous 365 days. We direct attention to improving upon our deficiencies whether it be packing on the pounds, being a couch potato, slacking off at school or work….you get the picture. We rarely focus on the strengths that we bring to the table and how we can increase the use of them in every aspect of our lives.

Why aren’t most people taking on this mindset? One big problem is that most people are unaware of or unable to describe their own strengths. My challenge to you is to think of five of your greatest strengths, write them down, and make a list of ways in which you can make yourself even stronger in these areas.

If you have made it past this step, reply to this blog post and I will give you the name of a great book that has helped me prepare for a brand new year!

As the ball falls in your corner of the world, remember that in your strengths you will find success. Hopefully the Global Experiences team will get to be a part of the journey!