Learning about your strengths (as you did yesterday) allows you to see yourself more accurately. Not only that, but keeping your strengths clearly in mind will help you to carry out all your activities more skillfully and with greater enjoyment. By focusing on your strengths, you can quickly determine at which activities you will excel, as well as bringing your strengths to bear on situations for which you may not feel very skilled or just plain don’t enjoy very much.
Today, I encourage you to use your strengths in a novel way. When you encounter a situation that seems stuck, something you’re resisting, look at your strengths. Is there a way to use one or more of your strengths to break the situation loose or to allow you to gain new perspective? For example, if one of your strengths is appreciation of beauty and excellence, you could step back and examine what’s going on by specifically looking for beauty or excellence. By focusing on what’s working, instead of what’s stuck, you may see a solution that was present but hidden from you.
To help you get a better handle on what your strengths are and what your VIA results mean, I created a handy table with definitions of each of the 24 character strengths. If you want a copy, just enter your name and email address in the boxes below—the autoresponder will take care of the rest!
was patience part of todays excercise? still waiting… for half an hour and no response at all
