Reflecting on your past experiences is a simple way…

Reflecting on your past experiences is a simple way to begin to identify your strengths. Consider these questions: When do you feel that you have done your best work? Again, this might not be a specific job or even paid work. What characterized this work? What was it about you, the work, or the conditions of the work that contributed to it going so well? When you reflect on these questions about your work experiences, what are some of the words that come to mind describing yourself? What are the positive qualities, strengths, or virtues that you applied in doing this good work?

— from The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection) · Complete Family Wealth by James E Hughes Jr., Susan E. Massenzio, and Keith Whitaker

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To build a life of excellence, the management thinker Peter Drucker said, begin by asking yourself: what are my strengths, how do I work best, what are my values, where do I belong, and what can I contribute. You discover your strengths not by guessing but by looking back honestly at the moments you did your very best work and asking what it was about you that made it go so well. Your values surface when you sit with the simple question, what matters most to me, and why — or when you examine your life through four lenses: the sweet moments full of vitality, the sad ones that broke your heart, the heroes you admire, and the story of how you would want to be remembered, because each of those points straight at a value you hold. […] Take a yearly inventory. Do an annual review of what went right and wrong, and keep a running list of your blessings and the things you have already endured and overcome. Know your foundations. Name your strengths, your values, where you belong, and what you can contribute; find them by reflecting on when you did your best work. Let the past go. When you are stuck in the loop, step outside and watch yourself like a fly on the wall, then stop trying to control what is already gone and release it. — The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection)

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