What Your Advantages Allow You to Do
The Freedom That Comes From Advantage By now, you’ve identified your advantages, given yourself permission to use them, learned how to apply them constructively, and started to grow them. The…
Growing Your Advantages
Advantages Are Not Fixed One of the biggest misconceptions about advantages is that you either have them or you don’t — as if they were handed out at birth and…
Using Advantages Constructively
The Ideal Way to “Take Advantage” You’ve identified your advantages and given yourself permission to use them. Now comes the crucial next question: How? This is where the phrase “taking…
Using Your Advantages
The Permission Problem You’ve made your inventory. You can see your advantages on paper — knowledge, relationships, resources, traits, and experiences. The next question is simple but surprisingly difficult: Are…
What Are Your Advantages?
Seeing What’s Already in Your Corner If you’re like most people, you probably think more about what you don’t have than what you do. It’s natural — we’re trained to…
Series Introduction: Reframing “Taking Advantage” as a Positive, Constructive Life Strategy
Knowing and Growing Your Advantages When you hear the phrase “taking advantage,” what comes to mind? For most people, it’s not flattering. We picture someone being manipulative, opportunistic, or even…