You have made a list of your top ten strengths, you need to realize that it is you that is in possession of these strengths and that they truly are unique to only you. Think of strengths as options on a new car, in most cases, the more you have the more the car is worth.

Using this new car analogy, would you pay for an option if you didn’t understand what value it had or what benefit it would be to you. Think too, that not every option is beneficial to everyone equally. For example, a wheel chair lift would be of great value to someone with a disability that needed it, but that same option would be of little use and would provide little value to someone who didn’t need it, in fact it would in all likelihood decrease the value of that vehicle for the owner that didn’t find it necessary.

Identifying strengths will help you to identify even more strengths. As you go forward from here, I want you to keep adding to this list of strengths. Each time you identify a new strength or one that you failed to recognize the first time, write it down. I am going to challenge you to write down as many strengths as you can, make a goal to see if you can identify your top 100 strengths. Now don’t think this is crazy, I have actually had a lady start working on her list and believe it or not, by the end of a weekend, she had listed 127 strengths that she had identified. I was amazed! I asked her how she did it so quickly. She told me that she was looking for a way to build her self-confidence and improve on her self-esteem and that once she had started the list and got to around 20, she felt so invigorated by the process and started feeling so good about herself that she just could not stop writing. Now, is this woman someone with a huge ego or totally self-centered? No! absolutely not! She is one of the most humble, modest, sweet, kind, and passionate women I have ever known. I find it truly uplifting when someone is able to do something as simple as making a list find such power in it to transform one’s life. What will this exercise do for you? Try It and report back to me.