Strive to be Flawed; Reaching Your Potential with an Imperfect Toolbox.


(This is a shorter version of the 2-day “Strive to be Flawed” seminar.)


This inspirational 4-hour workshop promotes ambition and the achievement of success with personal honesty and truth.  The program encourages attendees to embrace themselves as imperfect beings capable of incredible things.




  • Is the quest for perfection worth pursuing?


  • What’s at the heart of human relationships?


  • Does everyone experience anxiety in their lives?


  • Should I focus on minimizing weaknesses?  or …


  • Should I focus on maximizing strengths?


  • What constitutes true confidence?

You will learn:



  • How to maintain a healthy lifestyle.


  • Build your entire life around your strengths.


  • How to achieve congruence in your life.


  • The steps to writing a Personal Mission Statement.


  • Designing a Massive Action Plan.


  • How to leverage your dominant trait.


  • How to balance humility with confidence.

Seminar Positioning

Patrick Schwerdtfeger encourages attendees to see the value of their own imperfect selves, to stop trying to eliminate flaws and to focus on leveraging strengths.  This program is among the most powerful offered by Tactical Execution and Patrick Schwerdtfeger because it dismantles the societal quest for perfection and promotes a wholesale acceptance of self.  Attendees finish the program feeling empowered and exhilarated in their own skin.


Seminar Content

Section 1: Introducing Realities & Defining Objectives




  • Introduce society’s quest for perfection.


  • The results on human relationships.


  • Draw distinction between “us” and “them”.


  • The role of anxiety and fear


  • Owning our own imperfections.



  • Defining true confidence.


  • Creating a pattern of success with baby steps.


  • Building a healthy lifestyle.


  • Constructing a life based on strengths.


  • Achieving congruence in your life.

Section 2: Introducing Tactics & Integrating the New Approach




  • RPM approach: results, purpose, MAP.


  • Goal setting to define the destination.


  • Personal missioning to define purpose.


  • Massive action plan to achive results.


  • Results motivate and accelerate process.



  • Dominant trait includes good AND bad.


  • Eliminating weaknesses jeopardizes identity.


  • Owning weaknesses creates humility & strength.


  • Humility builds relationships but not confidence.


  • Balance between humility and confidence.

Workshop Background

Our society is built on a cultural foundation that requires individuals to strive for perfection in everything they do.  Perfection is the common goal superimposed on all of us.  Meanwhile, perfection is not only unattainable but inhuman as well.  None of us are perfect.  We all have flaws and weaknesses and it’s these shortcomings that define our character, primarily because it’s these shortcomings that inevitably motivate most of our decisions.


People rarely learn through success.  Rather, we learn through hardship.


Victory encourages weakness.  Defeat encourages strength.


It doesn’t matter how you look at it, the message is always the same.  When things are going great, we sit back and celebrate.  People rarely ask “why” when they’re celebrating.  They just enjoy the moment.  But when things aren’t going the way we’d like, we start thinking of ways to improve the situation and it’s precisely that process that leads to growth and progress.  It’s when things aren’t that good that we ask “why” and that question leads to progress.


The same holds true for our own personal strengths and weaknesses.  Indeed, reaching our potential requires we identify and leverage our strengths but the fuel driving the process comes from an acceptance of our weaknesses.  A person’s greatest strength is almost always the reciprocal of their greatest weakness.  The two are usually opposite sides of the same “dominant trait”.  The trick is to understand that trait and funnel its potential, as much as possible, towards positive results.


Strive to be Flawed is a human exploration based on true honesty, combining confident humility with personal greatness.  Attendees are empowered by embracing their imperfect selves and realizing their potential only increases when confident humility is achieved.  The quest for perfection leads to failure.  The embrace of imperfection leads to success.


Course Length: 240 minutes (4 hours)


Delivery Method:  Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model


Benefits:  Attendees of this powerful seminar can use the strategies discussed to improve every aspect of their lives, spreading positive human energy through their circles of influence.  The quest for perfection lies at the heart of many modern societal problems and attendees of this seminar can gain a perspective that allows them to capitlize on social pressures most others fall victim to.