Strengths Series: What are the 43% Doing?

Highlights from this week’s episode:

  • Simple strategy for shutting off the work day with grace.

  • How to move from fixating on fixing weaknesses to focusing on what’s working.

  • Let go of doing more by leveraging strengths.

  • Give your mind a mini vacation, the kind where you feel hope:

    • Ask questions that unlock life-giving stories that ignite positive emotions

    • Recall times you felt joy and contentment and why it matters.

    • Recall your strengths and core values that contributed to great work

More resources to supplement this episode:

Read this blog post.

Read Intentional Moments on your own terms: 5 Ways to Calm Anxiety Right Now

Journal on these thoughts and questions:

  • Recall a time you felt amazing, alive, and thriving. What were doing? What was happening? Who was there?

  • Recall a time you felt like you were doing a great job at something—you really felt in flow, or you really felt like you were proud of your work. What were you doing? What did you appreciate about the people you were working with? What was it about you that contributed to the project’s success?

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