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 …
Today I can try building on my appreciation of beauty and excellence by asking someone what their favourite album is – and then listen to it
Today I can try building on my appreciation of beauty and excellence by searching for an exhibition to attend.
Today I can try buliding on my appreciation of beauty and excellence by googling ‘beauty and excellence’ (this also builds on my curiosity. I settled on investigating a site about the beauty and excellence of olympic athletes)
Today I can try building on my gratitude by asking and responding to myself how much I appreciate and respect all vast array of things that my adoring wife does for me every day.
Today I can build on my gratitude by searching the minds and varied perspectives from the students that I teach because I know they produce meaning that I have never considered.
Today I can build on my gratitude by googling. Having the internet technology at my disposal is a gratifying resource that I use everyday without actually considering that someone has spent many hours developing so I can find, discover and learn.
I can build on my curiosity by asking someone who knows how to do it…
I can build on my curiosity by searching for some interesting looking library books
I can build on my curiosity by googling anything I want!
You suggested, choose A (one) one of your strengths.
The one I choose for this question is
Social Intelligence [emotional intelligence, personal intelligence] See (Auth. Happiness).
I hadn’t thought of it before but today I am going to Ask, Search and Google this subject. Because I am sure it is being used with questionable integrity in the business and employment market, for decision making that can be casually blamed on the current financial crisis.
It will be interesting.
Today I can try building on my leadership strength by searching
for good resources and new ventures.
Today I can try building my emotional strength by allowing ‘feelings’ to become an ‘action’
Today I can try google on ways to improve creativity
I am using the strengths from my strengthfinder profiles so it will be different from the others. Today i am going to build on my intelection strength by searching more ideas on helping children grow to their different intelligences. I will ask my friend Zans how does she raise her 3 so different boys.
Hope by asking someone close to me to take it a little easier
Hope by searching for an interesting future
Hope by goggling a search for a new property purchase
Today I can try building on my Gratitude by Asking “what happened yesterday that has moved me forward today”
Today I can try building on my Gratitude by Searching my heart and giving myself space and time to find the victories of the last 24 hours.
Today I can try building on my Gratitude by Googling “Entrpreneur.com ” and learning more about myself and my business.
Today I can build upon my love of learning by asking more direct questions.
Today I can build upon my love of learning by searching for alternatives to mundane answers.
Today I can build upon my love of learning by googling the word “google” because it makes me feel like a squishy idiot to say the word.
Today I can try building on my creativity by asking myself is it wrong to discourage my daughter, or not encourage her to enroll in university, commit herself to a large debt, maybe not be satisfied with the system, stifled by peers, and have her own creativity dampened? Why look at the usual channels and systems of education, which often stifles creativity and human development, as people become entrapped in illusory castles to climb.
Today i can try building on my strength of creativity by searching more information about Asperger’s syndrome, achieved through reading a book by Tony Attwood.
Today I can build on my strength of creativity by googling more about Asperger’s syndrome, the limbic and reptilian brain, holism and esoteric phenomena and future possibilities for my children; searching and asking for interconnections between these components and creating links between these ideas in my own brain which will strengthen my intuitivity and use of different elements of my brain.