Sure, we all have strengths and we all have weaknesses. So, obviously, there are at least two approaches we can take to grow.
We can focus on trying to resolve our weaknesses and we can try building on our strengths.
There is room for both approaches but, in my experience, it is often more productive to build on a strength than to fix a weakness and that’s what your focus will be today. Build on your strength!
Think of three things you can start today to build on your strength.
DFQ #09:
Complete these sentences and post your completed sentences below:1. Today I can try building on my (name strength) by …
2. Today I can try building on my (name strength) by …
3. Today I can try building on my (name strength) by …
1. Today I can try building on my Love by consistently encouraging others to live each day in harmony and in accordance with their God-given potential.
2. Today I can try building on my Love of Learning by continuous improvement and consistent application of what I am learning in these Lessons/Courses.
3. Today I can try building on my Appreciation and Gratitude of Beauty by accepting each individual as he/she is at the moment … Now.
1. Today I can try building on my wisdom/perspective by keeping in mind I “don’t know” and need to ask, search and seek.
2. Today I can try building on my wisdom/perspective by learning something NEW everyday, seeing something NEW everyday.
3. Today I can try building on my wisdom/perspective by building my mind-map – expanding/increasing.
Today I can try building on my curiosity by reading more
Today I can try building on my Integrity by being generous
Today I can try building on my citizenship by moving my community works higher on my priority list
Today I can try building on my leadership by taking time to listen with greater reason and purpose.
Today I can try building on my open-mindedness by challenging students to do the same while at the same time introducing statements that they will protest against.
Today I can try building on my humor by sharing a new joke with my friends that is actually funny!!
Today I can try building on my resilience by applying it
to my own work and training goals.
Today I can try building on my Humour by using it mixing it with little stories and anologies.
Today I can try building on my Responsibility by making a clear list
of all my current responsibilities so i am can remind myself and be clear.
1. Today I can try building on my love of learning by working on the coming lecture series
2. Today I can try building on my creativity by thinking up some new and interesting assignments
3. Today I can try building on my perspective by thinking about how the new students will experience the first few weeks of uni.
Integrity:
– Today I will start to apply my integrity (completeness, wholeness, OED) to myself.
– I will not let my integrity (to myself) be disuaded by misplaced integrity to others.
– I will strengthen this ‘hope’ with ‘humour’ and ‘love of learning’….and a touch of ‘bravery’, if needed.
1. Today I can try building on my Objectivity by …
stopping for few moments and clear my mind of interferring and emotional sidetracking thoughts.
2. Today I can try building on my integrity (emotional and personal) by … facing a few facts which must be faced and modifying my thinking accordingly.
3. Today I can try building on my perspective (wisdom) by … changing my point of view for a few moments. Playing the role from another’s perspective, whatever it is.
1. Today I can try building on my Integrity by quiting smoking at all.
2. Today I can try building on my Creativity by architecturing the information of our company’s new site.
3. Today I can try building on my Integrity by organizing an agenda.
Today I will build on my openmindedness by trying new ways of organising and acting
Today I will build on my gratitude by using it to activate resourceful mental states periodically throughout the day
Today I will build on my openmindedness by seeing refusing to do things that are less important to me as a positive action