The effort you invest each day into working on your strengths is well worth it. You get a great return on strengths.
Life in 2017-2018 is full of demands and deadlines but, at the end of the day, YOU are your own greatest investment.
So, as long as you don’t feel like you’re drowning in narcissism, let’s build on another strength today by asking, by searching and by googling.
Choosing a different strength from the one you chose in the last lesson, how can you explore ways to build on that strength today?
Specifically, what can you ask for? What can you search for? What can you google?
DFQ #10:
Think of three things you can do today to build your strengths. Choose a strength and then complete these sentences and post your completed sentences below:
1. Today I can try building on my (name strength) by asking …
2. Today I can try building on my (name strength) by searching …
3. Today I can try building on my (name strength) by googling …
1. Today I can try building on my curiousity by asking somebody else
2. Today I can try building on my creativity by searching for a way to get my desk organised
3. Today I can try building on my curiousity and interest in the world by googling “Annapurna Sanctuary” – looks awesome (can’t wait)
1. Today I can try building on my Open-Mindedness by asking myself regularly “is there a better way of performing this task”
2. Today I can try building on my Open-Mindedness by searching for other people’s views and opinions.
3. Today I can try building on my Open-Mindedness by googling and reading some of the many management publications recommended.
Today I can build on my Integrity by asking my direct staff if they feel that I am an honest person and request that they too ask this of their staff.
Today I can build on my Integrity by searching ways to sell honesty
Today I can build on my Integrity by googling honesty in the work place.
. Today I can try building on my creativity by asking how many poeams have I written in the last 12 months
2. Today I can try building on my creativity by searching for all my poemas and putting them into one folder
3. Today I can try building on my creativity by googling (outside work hours of course) poetry competitions and magazines
1. Today I can try building on my Leadership by asking my employees about their progress and what assistance they need.
2. Today I can try building on my Leadership by searching for problems that could use my assistance in resolving.
3. Today I can try building on my Leadership by Googling for information on competitors new products and imparting this to employees.
Today I can try building on my integrity by asking myself whether I am truly living my life in line with my values.
Today I can try building on my integrity by searching my thoughts to determine what makes me truly happy and what it is that I hope to accomplish over the next few years.
Today I can try building on my integrity by googling for tools to help me define my values.
1. Today I can try building on my citizenship by asking my neighbour when I get home if I can help with anything.
2. Today I can try building on my citizenship by searching through my unnused things at home and donating them to charity.
3. Today I can try building on my citizenship by googling for volunteer work that I might be good at.
1. Today I can try building on my gratitude by being thankful for the wonderful people that I do work with
2. Today I can try building on my gratitude by being thankful for my job, and the activities that I so enjoy at work.
3. Today I can try building on my gratitude by being thankful for the joy that my family bring me, and thanking my husband for putting up with me.
1. Today I can try building on my open-mindedness by asking whether there are better ways to approach a problem
2. Today I can try building on my open-mindedness by searching for new protocols
3. Today I can try building on my open-mindedness by googling for climate change sceptics views
1. Today I can try building on my persistence by preparing a project proposal & liaising with project areas out of my field of expertise.
2. Today I can try building on my curiosity by rethinking a project proposal.
3. Today I can try building on my integrity by doing my tax return!