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Monday, January 04, 2010

Discovering Your Strengths


What are the best ways for people to discover their strengths?

It’s ironic that your strengths can be so easy to overlook, because they’re clamoring for your attention in the most basic way: Using them makes you feel strong. All you have to do is teach yourself to pay attention. Try to be conscious of yourself and how you feel as you’re completing your day-to-day tasks. Most of the time, we’re so focused on getting our work done that we don’t really have time to notice how we feel about it. At the end of the day, we go home and tell our loved ones that it was a good day or a bad day, but we haven’t made the effort to notice why the day feels good or bad as it happens.

When you make the conscious effort to notice yourself at work (or at play, for that matter), you will find that you experience what are called “strong-moments” throughout your day—times when you feel invigorated, inquisitive, successful. Those moments are the best clues as to what your strengths are.

There’s also a simple acronym to help you recognise the signs of strength: SIGN.

•S - Success: Do you feel a sense of accomplishment about finishing a task?
•I - Instinct: Do you instinctively look forward to this task?
•G - Growth: Are your synapses firing? Are you mentally focused?
•N - Needs: Does this task fulfill one of your needs?

If you notice yourself feeling any of those feelings while doing a task, chances are that activity is one of your strengths.
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