Constraints as Your Super Power

ByJowi Witt

Hey Reader,

Wait what?

You’re telling me that the things I can’t do are actually my strengths?

Yes, I am.

We live in a world with modern opportunities.
We have so many options to choose from.

It used to be that we would learn the job of our dads—
which he learned from his dad.

That’s why some last names include a job title.
It is what your family was known for.

Today we have freedom:

  • Freedom to live where we want
  • To find a job that we want
  • To marry who we want
  • To spend money the way we want

In the age of modern opportunity, it is a big swirl.

I have done student orientation for many years—
talking to high schoolers about what they want to study, who they want to become.

I still can remember many students looking at me like a deer in the headlights.
They got caught in the spirit of indecision.
They didn’t even know where to start.

To them, the sea of modern opportunity wasn’t much of a blessing.
It was a curse.

So I tried to help them—
not by narrowing down their interests or strengths,
but by writing down their constraints.

  • Can’t see blood without fainting? → Don’t go become a doctor.
  • Don’t want to work with kids? → Don’t become a kindergartener.

The same experience I had with the students I have now with many dads starting a business.
They also get stuck in the spirit of indecision,
because it feels like they have modern opportunity in business.

So one lesson I always teach them in my coaching is to:

Understand your constraints as a super power.

​

Keep chopping Wood!

Your Jowi

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