Any Weaknesses? Yes.

Having weaknesses doesn’t equate to being a weak person. This week, I’m focusing on identifying and creating a game plan to strengthen my weaknesses. I’m a confident person, or at least try my best to maintain a healthy, positive, and constructive view of myself, so admitting that I have weaknesses was a hard step for me, and I still struggle to accept them sometimes. But realistically, everyone has weaknesses, just like everyone has strengths. Room for improvement doesn’t mean you’re trash at everything you do, space for growth doesn’t mean you haven’t grown before, and if we never take the time to reflect on things holding us back, how would growth even be possible?

A weakness of mine is I don’t like change; I love familiar, comfortable, and safe. However, I often think about how maybe I’m clinging to these “safe spaces” only because of the limited safe spaces available for a person like me and how not changing my environment and surroundings hinders my growth and limits my opportunities to network with different people. So, I took the opportunity to travel with my friend to Miami for his birthday! And I’ve changed, believe me! Just being somewhere else that wasn’t my hometown without my family around opened my eyes to the fact that my life is my own I am the dictator of my own life, and the only thing stopping me from moving to Miami is me. Yes, I fear putting myself into situations with unknown possibilities, but no one has a crystal ball that can tell the future. However, I can prepare myself and my bank account! I can make moves with my girls while still keeping safety in mind. I can break out of the box that I built for myself based on presumptions, fear, and self-doubt, and that’s just one example of understanding my weaknesses and progressively working towards not allowing them to limit my potential, my capabilities, and my dreams.

Take a moment, a day, or a week to just reflect on the things that could be holding you back from accomplishing your goals, actions that may be hindering your growth, and even evaluating your surroundings to see if you’re being uplifted, motivated, supported correctly, and loved. Taking that first step can be hard for anyone, but knowing yourself so well that no one can use your weaknesses against you due to the amount of time and effort spent self-discovering and self-improving already makes you stronger than so many others and stronger than the past version of yourself.