Sometimes we don’t know ourselves as well as we think, especially when it comes to our strengths. But it’s actually pretty easy to sort them out, and if we work together I will want to know your strengths, because they will tell me a lot where you’ll find energy and success.
Character strengths are stable aspects of our personality: positive traits. They are energizing for us; natural and authentic and so easy for us to use without even trying; and they are useable for us as leverage to do heavy lifting.
Although we don’t choose them, we can recognize them once they’re pointed out: “Yes, I’m like that, that’s me.”
They are what we rely on to get through challenges, what we often use as a basis for our work, as a basis for connection to others. They’re not merely our persona; they may have deeper roots even than personality, as an individual aspect in ourselves of a quality of life itself.
Here are my top 6:
And what are yours?