We talked yesterday about seeing strengths. Here are some questions to consider when you are determining your strengths:

• What do people pick on you for? I know that’s an odd place to start. But because people often pick on people who are different than they are, it can help you see a strength.
• Think about all the times someone said, “why can’t you be more like me.” What are you like that’s different than that person/ That could be a strength.
• Think about what people always ask you to help them with.
• When you walk into a room, what do you notice that no one else does? Here’s another way to think about that question. When you and a friend walk into a room and back out, think about what you notice that they don’t, and what they notice that you don’t. Those differences give you a glimpse of what matters to you, about what you can see that others can’t.
• What people do you find it easiest to talk to? List their names. Now, step back. What characteristics are true of all of them? Are they all underdogs? Are they all shy people?
• But, you say, I don’t like to talk to anyone. That may be a strength (says an introvert).
• When you get frustrated about people not being able to understand something, what is it that you understand? That’s something that could be a strength of yours (as opposed to everyone else being incompetent.)
• What do you like to do best, start or finish? Arrange or create? Read or listen or write or try for yourself?

There aren’t right answers to these questions. (Do you like to have right answers or right questions?)  There are, however, your answers. And it’s worth spending some time finding them.

Happy Friday.