Simplify Your Life’s Weblog

After completing the questionaire on www.strengthsfinder.com, I discovered that my “top 5 themes” are:

Maximizer:  focuses on strengths as a way to stimulate personal and group excellence, seeks to transform something strong into something superb.

Connectedness:  has faith in the links between all things, believes there are few coincidences and that almost every event has a reason.

Relator:  enjoys close relationships with others, finds deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a  goal.

Intellection:  characterized by their intellectual activity, are introspective and appreciate intellectual discussions.

Input:  has a craving to know more, often likes to collect and archive all kinds of information.

**All of these definitions come directly from the “Strengths Discovery & Action-Planning Guide” I was able to print off after taking the test.  This document also describes how I, as a Maximizer, am different than other Maximizers based on my answers overall.  It offers quotes from people in my themes, which tell me what these themes sound like.  And it also provides some suggested action-plan items to consider in order to focus on these themes. 

I really enjoyed the entire process.  In reading the information listed for each theme I was not necessarily surprised with what it told me about myself however it was useful to see it all in one place for me.  It made me feel as though my work in living a more mindful life has really been paying off in being more in tune with who I am, actually.  It will be a really useful tool to reference back to if I am feeling some imbalance in life.  It will allow me to reflect on whether or not one of my themes has been ignored lately.

Now I will be able to knowingly suggest this tool to my clients who need some guidance in reflecting on their own strengths.  I guess that is just either my Intellection or Input theme showing up again!