It’s the balance between your weaknesses and strengths, that ultimately determines your level of influence…

Do you avoid your weaknesses and focus on your strengths?

If you do then you are probably like 99% of the population just cruising along in their comfort zones. The problem with this is that your comfort zone then acts like a limiting prison. Outside of this comfort zone is fear and doubt unlike the cozy safe familiarity that lies within your comfort zone. So it makes perfect sense to want to stay within those walls, or does it?

If you want to become an alpha influencer and the type of  leader that people naturally gravitate towards, you need to gain a balance between your strengths and weaknesses. Most people tend to see this as black and white e.g. your either an extrovert or an introvert, you’re either highly organized or you go with the flow, but you can’t be both, or can you?

When you continue to operate from your strengths, you unconsciously  bring with you the weakensses within that strength. E.g. a highly organized person (strength) will often be perfection oriented and highly critical at the same time. So their inability to go with the flow and not be so hard on themselves becomes a weakness. The trick is to become balanced.

Lets take a look at the 4 personality styles of an Alpha Influencer…

First we have the Fire or doer personality

A polarization of Fire is Water or the watcher

Then we have Earth or the thinker personality

And a polarization of Earth would be Air or the talker

Obviously we are just scratching the surface here as there is much more to each leadership style than what is written above. I’ve skimmed over it so that you have the gist of how it might look if you had all of the strengths of not only your opposite, but all four of the Alpha Elementals. Can you imagine how powerful you’d be if you had a balance in all of the strengths and none of the weaknesses? Not only would you easily be able to adapt to any situation, you’d be able to quickly build rapport and influence anyone you choose to.

You can start working on this right now by looking at how you can adapt the strengths of each of the different personality types.

• If you’re a watcher, how about speaking up and contributing to something that will create change the next time you have a chance.
• If you’re a doer, try experiencing compassion rather than being intolerant of weakness.
• If you’re a thinker, how about doing something completely spontaneous just for today.
• And if you’re a talker, allow someone else to shine and be the center of attention next time you’re in a social situation.

Ryan does a great job in explaining the Alpha Influence personality tendencies in the video below.

I hope this post enabled you to gain some insight into not only how limiting our comfort zones and automatic behaviors can be, but how powerful you can become if you choose to start stepping outside of them.

Can you relate to some or all of the Alpha Influence leadership traits mentioned in this post? I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below. And as always, if you gained any insight then feel free to share it with your circle of influence.

Michaelé