Signature Strengths - what are yours?

 
 

If I were to meet you for the first time and get to spend some quality time with you, what would I most likely say about YOU?

That you are generous, humorous, curious?

Brave? Persistent? Hopeful?

Or, perhaps, some other quality of the 24 Character Strengths that Martin Seligman and Christopher Peterson, founding fathers of Positive Psychology, identified through extensive research as being common among people of all ages, cultures and nations?

According to the Via Institute on Character, Signature strengths are those qualities that stand out about you, your top strengths.

Mine are:

Appreciation of beauty and excellence

Kindness

Love

Honesty

Forgiveness

Gratitude

Fairness

Judgment

Curious to find out what your Signature strengths are? In less than 10-15 minutes, the free, scientifically validated Via Character Strengths Survey will enlighten you not only as to what your Signature strengths are - the qualities that are most essential to who you are - but also as to your unique 24-Character Strength Profile. What makes you, YOU!

But, hey, awareness is the first step.

Practice is the next, and, most importantly, the one that builds capacity.

Putting your Signature strengths in good use to improve your personal and professional life, is totally up to you; and yes, regular mindful practice is required!

If not, you just might be compromising your chances for authentic happiness and long-term well-being: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

And you wouldn’t want to do that willingly, right?

Choose to be wiser.

You’ve got this. Trust yourself. I trust you.

Despina Panitsidis