3 Tips For Using Your Strengths and Achieving Your Goals

Whether you’re a new mom, have one or many children, you know how essential it is to use your strengths and achieve your goals.

As mothers, we know that it’s not just what we say that sets the tone. It’s what we think, feel, say, and do. Children are watching and learning from our words and our actions. 

With this in mind, let’s explore how you can use your strengths, achieve your goals – and help those you love to do the same.

Use Your Top Strengths

No doubt, this has been an intense and challenging year. We’ve faced issues that may have never even seemed on the drawing board. Yet, here we are – survivors. In addition to surviving a global pandemic, we’ve also survived to do more than just ‘manage.’ 

We have gotten to this point in our lives because we’ve used our strengths. If you’re looking to do more than ‘survive’…you know that you want to thrive. The curious thing about thriving is it’s quite personal.

What works for you may be ideally suited just for you. Yet, when you are thriving, everyone around you benefits. You’re happier. You’re calmer. You’re more in your home zone of strengths.

That’s why using your strengths is a smart idea. It will help you immediately to be your best this summer. It will support you in building on your strengths, in ways that may have just flashed by like a glimmer of light.

What kind of strengths? Well, the sky’s the limit. 

A lot of mothers seem to underestimate their strengths. But if you look closely, you’ll see that you are:

• A master at organizing
• A whiz at solving immediate crises
• A great listener
• A skillful diplomat
• An Olympian at the persistence

How do you know these to be true? Just look at how you juggle work, manage household chores, chauffeur kids to sports, and still have time for a cuddle. Check out how you are ready to give a hug, lend an ear, and offer perspective. Consider how you negotiate with a crying child or talk your young one off an emotional ledge of a tantrum.

Yes, you are a strength-filled mom. And, if you need to think a lot about it, it’s probably because you do it so naturally. It may not seem like a big deal to you – but it is a huge deal to your family.

Achieve Your Top Goals

As you’re exploring your strengths, there’s something that you can consider. How are you using your proven strengths to achieve your own goals? Are you dreaming of going back to school, getting an advanced degree in nursing, and taking your career to the next level?

There are many affordable and accessible programs for getting certified as a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). Perhaps you’re using your scheduling skills to make time to review online DNP programs. With this certification, it’s easier to expand your options – get higher-paying jobs, have more scheduling flexibility, and work with specific patient populations.

Consider how you can use your problem-solving skills to sort through the important decisions about getting an advanced degree. You might need to swap time from one activity to another. For instance, you may find that hiring a babysitter enables you to make time for studying. Or, you might want to get up an hour earlier to prepare for an exam before jumping into your other work.

Many people are working from home, so this can work in your favor. If you’ve been exploring hybrid-working arrangements, you’re already familiar with the flexibility of working some days from home and some onsite. With this blueprint, it’s easier to envision creating home study time for an online certification program.

Help Your Loved Ones 

As a mom, one of the great rewards is helping your loved ones use their strengths and achieve their goals. And, as little ones are watching, they will see you’re using your strengths and meeting your stretch goals. 

You won’t just be ‘talking-the-talk.’ When you embrace and use your strengths, you’ll show your children, partner, and family that this is a happier and healthier way to live. You’ll naturally help them by the way you’re living. 

In addition, when you set out to achieve your goals – such as earn an advanced degree – you’ll inspire the people around you. Your family will know that using strengths, achieving goals, and supporting each other is an awesome way to live.