Saturday, September 8, 2007

Strengths: #2: Positivity

You are generous with praise, quick to smile, and always on the lookout for the positive in the situation. Some call you lighthearted. Others just wish that their glass were as full as yours seems to be. But either way, people want to be around you. Their world looks better around you because your enthusiasm is contagious. Lacking your energy and optimism, some find their world drab with repetition or, worse, heavy with pressure. You seem to find a way to lighten their spirit. You inject drama into every project. You celebrate every achievement. You find ways to make everything more exciting and more vital. Some cynics may reject your energy, but you are rarely dragged down. Your Positivity won't allow it. Somehow you can't quite escape your conviction that it is good to be alive, that work can be fun, and that no matter what the setbacks, one must never lose one's sense of humor.

Although this is my #2, it's the one that I value the most. It makes a tiny corner of the world better. It lights a lamp in others that can fan out to everyone that they meet. It's a selfless quality by its nature. It makes a person physically healthier. And at this point, it's an ideal that I'd very much like to achieve and have a long way to go. Analytical and Contextual persons can be too anchored in the small failures of the past. My mind is like a bowl -- dirty water sloshes around inside of it until it's displaced by clean water. The faucet drips the dirty stuff, so it's up to me to find fresh gallons to pour in regularly. Someday I'll even succeed in fixing the faucet!

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