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Our studies indicate that people who do have the opportunity to focus on their strengths every day are six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs and more than three times as likely to report having an excellent quality of life in general.

Tom Rath; Strengthsfinder 2.0; Gallup Organization Research

Coaching Thought:

'In what areas are you learning and growing? If the answer is none, that means you’re stagnating or regressing. Learn more, earn more, know more, grow more!' –  Rob Liano; coach,  author. Now more than ever, there is no excuse for not upskilling and expanding your knowledge base. Technology in the last Covid year has exploded, and everything is literally at your fingertips. During this period, more learning institutions than ever before have provided free education, courses and resources.  There is almost no subject you can't dig deeper into, if you have a curious mind and a thirst for knowledge. Your physical body may be in lockdown situations, but your mind most certainly isn't. And knowledge is one of life's true treasures, that no one can ever take away from you.

There are many successful people in the world who have had not the advantage of formal education. Some famous high school dropouts are:

Albert Einstein (physicist); John D Rockefeller (oil magnate); John Glenn (astronaut); Steve Jobs (Apple co-founder); Henry Ford (entrepreneur and industrialist).

The qualities they all had in common were consistency, focus, curiosity, persistence, continued self-education, action-taking, calculated risk-taking - qualities we can all choose to focus on and become good at.  There has never been a better time to seek, learn and upskill ourselves.  'While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success, nor is its absence a fatal handicap.' ~ Ray Kroc.