What is your filter?

A lot of companies have recently gone through their annual review cycles. You were probably told what your strengths were and given feedback on your areas for improvement. This is a useful tool for letting someone know what they should do more of and also what they need to change in order to catch up to the average on performance.

There is another important question to ask. What is your unique strength that you should unleash to propel yourself to the next level. The leader I learned this question from called these "filters". Your mental frameworks are a filter to the information you take in and how you interpret your environment. They called these opportunities "filters" because the root change is in the frameworks you apply to your work, restructuring them to allow your unique abilities to flourish. Said differently, you change your behavior by changing how you interpret situations as opportunities to play to your strengths.