#1 Developer

Shared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Developer theme recognize and cultivate the potential in others. They spot the signs of each small improvement and derive satisfaction from these improvements.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

By nature, you enjoy counseling friends when they turn to you for help, suggestions, opinions, or fresh perspectives. Usually you make discoveries and gain new insights each time you freely share your ideas, experiences, or feelings with your companions. Instinctively, you are naturally inclined to make sacrifices that benefit someone else. You enjoy being generous with your time, knowledge, skills, experiences, resources, or possessions. It's very likely that you have a gift for engaging people in group conversations. You also are an active participant. Your upbeat attitude energizes the dialogue. You acknowledge the ideas people share. You reinforce the value of what they say. Consequently, many people become even more willing to reveal their thoughts and feelings. Because of your strengths, you usually put aside what you want to do and even inconvenience yourself to serve others. People probably say you devote yourself to the welfare and interest of many individuals. You routinely put their needs ahead of your own. Chances are good that you routinely engage in group activities and projects. Often these benefit youth and small children.

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I'd have to say this 100% accurate

Strengths Finder

As I mentioned in a previous post my employer made it a requirement to read this book to find out our strengths and then to e-mail them our top 5 strengths. I will be posting my results. Initially I thought crap I have to read another book that was not my choice to read. As it turned out it wasn't bad like I imagined it. Once I took the quiz online and read the results I was amazed how much the results were correct. So here are my top 5 strengths:

Developer

Responsibility

Relator

Restorative

Empathy

I will post each one everyday this week with my results. This should give you a little more insight on who I am and I must admit it's accurate I never would have guessed it

Beautiful Day!

Is this not one of the most beautiful pictures you have seen? Okay, it is to me! I'm a sucker for brick ^_^ This Temple is located in Vernal, Utah and I hope to visit it one day. For the next couple days I will be going to a Temple close to me. I'm very excited I haven't been in a while so I'm kinda nervous also. It will be nice to have some quite time to reflect this evening and tomorrow morning. When I think back on the times I went before I remember how much love and peace is in my heart. I must say I miss that feeling. I'm so ready to have time to reflect on a lot of things and not have to worry about the time or what's going on in the world. Today is a Beautiful Day!!!!!!!

Gratefulness

I am grateful for a lot of things in my life. I am especially grateful for two very strong and important woman in my life. Where would I be without them? They have been apart of my life for over a decade even in my late teens I knew them. They have a great family now with two beautiful children that I adore. I would like to say Thank you for being apart of my life!! I am grateful for my Mother and that she did an awesome job of raising a great, responsible, smart, and beautiful daughter. That would be me ^_^

Somethings we take for granted. I was thinking last night about all the things I am grateful for. I am grateful for have a roof over my head, a vehicle to get around in, and cloths on my back, the trees, the sun, the moon, snow, the smell of the rain, the sound of laughter, and a simple I love you between two friends. I have good friends and some family members that I look up to. It only take one incident to change your feelings. I have been able to change negative emotions into something positive lately and I've been reading a lot more than usual and enjoying me time.

I've be pondering a lot of things lately. One being my career and if it's something I want to continue. I have several options on the table and am unsure of what to do. I enjoy my job don't get me wrong, but I do not enjoy working under the boss I currently have. I feel he is very negative and enjoys finding your weakness instead of strengths. Speaking of strengths we were assigned to read a book called "Strengths Finder 2.0" and to take the online quiz to see what our strengths are and then e-mail them to mtg. My thoughts are hmmm what will come of it. Does this mean they will focus more on our strengths in the workplace and encourage us in certain areas? Or is this an exercise for us to reflect on personally.

Did You Say Something?

I have become semi mute lately. I no longer speak much I feel that it is best I remain silent and keep my mouth shut and bit my tongue as much as possible. I give people the benefit of a doubt. I found out that people I trust have been dishonest with me. It really sucks and has you doubting others. One may ask how do I know it's true? Trust me I know their the only one who would have known the information. I have also been accused of things that aren't true. I really dislike it when assumptions are made about me. All I ask is for people to call me aside and talk to me and ask if you have a concern and not to discuss it with others because then rumors start. I hate being the last one to find out something that supposedly happened. I get that it's hard to talk to people I know for me if I care about you it's harder for me to talk to you or to say "No", but if I value you as a friend then I will get the balls to talk to you. Then it always end up being easier than I thought. It takes a lot for me to trust people and once that has been violated you have to rebuild it.