What if you discovered your strengths, and you consciously used these strengths in your daily activities, would you be more engaged? Absolutely!
Studies find that when you have the opportunity to use your strengths (the things that you’re good at and enjoy doing), you will feel more confident, creative, engaged and more satisfied in your work and life. A strength represents the way your brain is wired to perform at your best. Over time, you have practiced these thoughts, feelings, and behaviors so often that you’ve built up neural pathways that make it easier, more effective, and more enjoyable to work in these ways.
How Do You Discover Your Strengths?
One of the best ways to start discovering your strengths is to take the free VIA Survey. After answering a few questions, you will discover your “Signature Strengths,” which are the character strengths that are most essential to who you are. These are most likely to be the ones that appear toward the top of your profile. Explore the website, it provides a lot of useful information about the strengths, including details on what they are, and strategies for applying them in your everyday life.
Once you have your results, determine if they reflect what you believe to be your strengths.
Reflect on times when you’ve used these strengths. How did you feel?
Sometimes it’s hard for us to see our strengths because we tend to focus on our weaknesses.
Validate your results with your spouse, partner, friend or colleague. Ask them for examples of how they have seen your strengths play out. What were you doing? Were you engaged, energized, and enjoying what you were doing?
Practice Using Your Strengths
Each week, I challenge you to pick one of your strengths to explore in more depth. Notice when you’re naturally using that strength and look for ways you can integrate that strength into each day (at work, at home, when hanging out with friends, or when thinking about your goals).
At the end of the day, think about the strength you integrated into your day-to-day activities. Try to savor the feeling by naming how it made you feel to apply your strength.
Write about it on your habit tracker or in your journal.
To Conclude
Discovering and using your strengths often helps you feel more connected with yourself and the activities you engage in. Using your strengths promotes reaching that peaceful flow state.
As you review your strengths, you may notice that some of them tie in with the type of work you do. If they don’t, you may want to consider how you may be able to integrate some of them into your existing career or possibly a new one, if you’ve been considering a change.
Take the free VIA Survey here. What are your top strengths?
Keep going, keep growing…
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