Character Strenghts

After a long day at work or different activities, you are finally at home, ready to rest. Then you start to remember everything that happened during the day. If I ask you what character strengths you have used during the day, what would be your answer? 

Sometimes it is hard to think about strengths instead of weaknesses, isn’t it? It sounds that we always have all weaknesses on the tip of our tongue, everything that we have to improve or that we should have done differently. But how about what we are doing well?  

There are 24 categories of character strengths, classified in 6 virtues which are common to all peoples: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance and transcendence. Everyone has all 24 character strengths, in different degrees. Some characters are more natural than others. They shape our personality, how we interact with the world. Martin Seligman – a contributor of Positive Psychology, along with Christopher Peterson have written the “Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification” book. Also known as “A manual of the sanities”, they intend to focus on healthiness instead of illness. 

When we are aware of our strengths, it helps us to develop new strategies to promote a good life. The good news is that a positive mind can be developed! But it is more than having a positive mind or wishing all the best to our loved ones. It is a new perspective about yourself, as an agent of changing. How I am using my signature strengths may be the first step! Sometimes we have all opportunities waiting for our best characters to turn up!

Can you identify your strengths? Here it is a link where you can read about all strengths: ViaCharacter

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