young j
As I thought about this post I decided to write about my
Strength Finders Test that I found recently and how it changed my approach to life then one of my facebook friends posted this:
Kelli wrote:
"Happy Birthday! Born Today, January 7; You are a person who marches to the beat of your own drum, but yet you respect rules and order. Nobody can push you to do much of anything, as you don't feel right unless you are acting on intuition. There is a spiritual or otherworldly quality to you, and you are highly creative when you are able to tap into and embrace your talents. Highly unusual yet intriguing, you are a helpful, somewhat wilful, and hardworking soul."
which is perhaps one of the most dead on accurate descriptions of me ever. I am an odd bird. However I am still going to write about my Strengths Finder results and how learning what my strengths are helped me become a much better woman, mother, lover, friend. I fully believe that as humans we spend entirely too much time working on things that are weaknesses and not enough time developing our strengths.
So to that end I received this book as a gift from my former boss, he handed them out as gifts to all the employees and I am so glad he did. After reading the book and taking the test associated here is what was revealed about my strengths:
Woo is my number one strength. It stands for winning others over. a brief synopsis is I rarely meet strangers and actually thrive on learning about them.
I really love meeting new people and interacting with them, I thrive on it. If you have ever encountered me at a show, on the street or especially in a restaurant you will know this to be true.Communication is my 2nd strength. The description states " you like to explain, to describe, to host, to speak in public, and to write." "Events are static. You feel a need to bring them to life, to energize them, to make them exciting and vivid. And so you turn events into stories and practice telling them"
I talk a lot but not in a monotone way, I talk in parables all the time. My kids don't like it so much because we can never just eat dinner in 30 minutes.Maximizer is my 3rd strength. " Excellence, not average, is your measure. Strengths, whether yours or someone else's, fascinate you. You choose to spend time with people who appreciate your particular strengths. Likewise, you are attracted to others who seem to have found and cultivated their own strengths."
Excellence is the standard is our family motto.Input is my 4th strength. "You are inquisitive. You collect things." "The world is exciting precisely because of its infinite variety and complexity."
This is not an understatement, books, quotes, poems, art, music,chairs.Responsibility is my 5th strength. "Your Responsibility theme forces you to take psychological ownership for anything you commit to, and whether large or small, you feel emotionally bound to follow it through to completion. Your good name depends on it."
This was almost the ruin of me because I thought I was responsible for everyone when I started to understand it is really just me and my immediate circle everything started to change.so here I stand at 39 becoming. I am not who I once was nor fully realized as of yet. I am still becoming and gathering tools for my journey. I am grateful for the loving family I have created that surrounds me with such an abundance of love I sometimes wonder if I am depriving the world by hoarding it. I am grateful for being a creative and having an avenue to pursue my creative yearnings. I am grateful for my thirst for knowledge it propels me forward. I am grateful for my friends who see me in all my boundless glory and are not afraid of my light. But most of all I am grateful for each new day, hour, moment to continue on this journey. Thank you.
j
