After reading Glenn's recent post about diversity, I realized so many of us have a ton of talents. some have so many it is amazing.

A lot more than most people have.

Of course some skills are more refined than others,

So my questions are:

1) What do you feal is your greatest skill or talent?

2)And how does it benefit you & your business?

3) What do you feal is your weakest skill or talent?

4) and how does it hurt you or your business?

Greatest - Drawing/Sketching. Being able to scratch out a recognizable visual representation of a spoken idea, on-the-spot, quickly, to confirm that all understand. Whether with clients, a work crew, or just for myself as a reminder for later. Pictures are a big part of how I communicate.

my weakness (right now) is that i can conceive projects that i don't have the technical skills to complete. i get frustrated because my hands aren't as good as my brain. (maybe if i kill off a few more brain cells the hands can catch up?)

But, my major weakness is my inability to organize my life and manage my time.

I feel I have the potential to be successful, but I cannot manage my business or personal life....it's a source of great frustration and frankly a bit embarrassing to admit.

My strongest skill is creative ideas, being able to visualize, illustrate then create. That benefits my business with customer loyalty and trust.

My weakest link is just like Adrienne, the inability to be organized, & disciplined as well. so to sum it up my business skills are my weakest. That hurts my business from being finacially successful to it's maximum potential.

The reason for this post was my thinking about seriously working on my business skills much like working on learning a new glass guilding trick or some other sign related skill.

I also fealt there might be many like me on this board with similar problems.

And I'd like to see skills like these maybe taught at letterhead meets along side carving, lettering and other sign related skills.

Just think, you go to a meet, learn how to pinstripe and then learn how to successfully manage you shop to financial freedom while pinstriping.

anyway, those are my pitfalls and others may not have this problem.

1. the ability to always have work
2. i love working with people
3. i'm good at multitasking
4. i don't have a big ego, customer is always right (although i have told a few where to go!)
5. i have a great relationship with my computer.
6. i love the design process and want to do more of that
7. i can do anything in vinyl

now the flip side:

After 40 years it would seem that I just might have this stuff down to a science and be good at everything....not.

My strongest ability I think is design. I love to work with layouts and continually find myself changing some detail or color, or something to improve the look. My weakness is....see above.

In days of old when showcards were popular I loved to hand letter, especially loose scripts and casual styles. That would be one of my assets.

Like so many others, my weaknesses fall into the category of managing the business. At times I am undisciplined with time and money, wasting both. It is hard for me to stay focused and I find myself trying to go in too many directions at once. I am a dreamer, but do not follow up with practical ways to make the dream come true. Managing my time has always been my greatest weakness. That, and the lack of establishing goals and plotting a route to achieve them.

Now don't these two compliment one another well