Archive for May 2020
What are your personal character strengths? It’s an easy lift to find out.
Most of us, at some point in our upbringing, learned about the importance of individual character. By and large, we learned that someone either has character or they don’t, or that someone is of good or bad character. And there is a hypothetical bar that is set, hard to discern, about who has this good…
Read MoreSo You Have a Character Strength Profile. Now What?
If you visited the VIA Character Institute website (www.VIAcharacter.org) and took the free survey, you now have a personal profile of your character strengths. So what is it good for? You can now use this knowledge about yourself to improve your wellbeing and to become more resilient to life’s challenges. According to Dr. Ryan Niemiec…
Read MoreDelving into Character Strengths: Love of Learning
In my two previous blogs, I discussed how using our Signature Strengths (our top five character strengths) is easy, energizing and essential for us, and helps us to shift into positive emotion and build resilience. I hope that you have begun to practice with your Signature Strengths to discover how helpful they can be in…
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