Knowing your leverage is everything, because life itself is a game of leverage.
When you understand your unique strengths, you start building energy instead of draining it. You move forward faster because you’re focused on what naturally makes you strong, not what holds you back.
Most of us are taught something completely opposite, to focus on our weaknesses and try to fix them. But think about it. When you keep fixing things you’re not good at, it feels exhausting. It drains you. Meanwhile, someone else out there finds that same thing easy and fun. So why not let them do it, and you focus on what you do best?
That’s the core of my philosophy: stop chasing weaknesses and go from strength to strength.
Your leverage is everything you already have, your skills, knowledge, network, experience, energy, attitude, or even your vision. The problem starts when we focus on what we don’t have. That mindset keeps us in constant chase mode. But the moment you start focusing on what you do have, you become mentally stronger. You gain control.
Once you recognize your leverage and take a stand on it, everything becomes clearer, your business direction, your content, and your confidence.
Let me give you an example from my own life.
When I started out, I wasn’t good at studies. I knew I didn’t want a job. I wanted to do business.
The only leverage I had was that I could learn fast, I had a good eye for design, and I loved selling.
Since childhood, I used to sit in my family’s shop, and my goal was simple: make a sale. I was good at convincing people to buy. That was my strength.
So I went to hotels and told them their menu cards needed better design, even though I didn’t know how to design at all.
Only after a client paid me did I go home and Google how to actually do it.
My leverage wasn’t design skills. It was getting clients.
That one strength, selling, opened doors to another – designing. And that’s what leverage does. It compounds. When you keep building on your strengths, success starts flowing to you naturally. You don’t have to chase it.
Your leverage must create real results for other people. That’s the key.
For me, guiding others was always something I did naturally. But once I realized it could help people get results, it became my core leverage, the foundation of my business.
To find your own leverage, stop thinking about what you lack.
Take a few minutes to write down everything you already have, your skills, knowledge, attitude, experience, and network. Then, ask yourself:
Which of these can create the biggest result for someone else?
There’s a simple test:
If working on it makes you feel stronger, it’s leverage.
If it drains you, it’s not.
Here’s your action step:
- Grab a pen and paper and write down everything that could be your leverage: your skills, experience, knowledge, or network.
- Then, next to each one, write how it can help others get a result they want.
Don’t worry about picking the best one yet. Just make the list.
Once you see all your strengths on paper, you’ll realize you already have what you need to start building your business.
When you build your life and business around your strengths, everything starts aligning. Your decisions get clearer. Your confidence grows.
Focus on doubling down on what makes you powerful.