Today’s guest post is by Sharon Gilmour-Glover.

When it comes to business results, we’re pretty good at looking at the good and the bad.

In fact, we’re experts when it comes to looking at the bad.

Often, we only  focus on bad business results because we mistakenly believe that focusing on our weaknesses and what’s not working is the best way to achieve success.

Actually, decades of research by the Gallup organization make it very clear that focusing on our strengths and good business results contributes to success way more than focusing on our failures.

Despite this data, North Americans are loath to accept this and the vast majority of people (eight out of 10) remain doing work that levers their weaknesses driving lack luster results.

Put another way, we’re more comfortable dealing with the bad than the good.

This begs the question, if we’re not comfortable really embracing and learning from the good, how on earth are we ever going to embrace and learn from the gorgeous? (more…)