Your Strengths\’ calendar for November (11/12)

Hello and welcome (back) to my blog, dear Positive friends!

And Happy November!I can not believe we are approaching the end of the year, I mean next month it\’s Christmas, OMG!!! I really hope your year continues smoothly and that you got a good enough sense of inner calm and hopefully some enthusiasm too! But if they play hard to get, I am here with another calendar filled with activities meant to encourage you to be more hopeful and perseverant. And, as usually, these activities are ways to use our character strengths intentionally.

In case you are new on my blog and don\’t really know what character strengths are, I will just say this: they are the backbone of Positive Psychology – the science that studies human flourishing, or what leads humans to peak performance. These character strengths have been researched intensely in the last 20+ years and the studies say that they are:

1. Universal – we all have them, no matter where we live
2. Cross-cultural – they exist in all cultures of the world
3. Easily recognized – we apply them without thinking and others see them in us quickly
4. Elevating to self and others – they put us in a state of flow and lead to peak performance

The Strengths Calendar for November shares simple ways to help us approach life with Perseverance, Curiosity and Hope. Almost all activities have a link attached to them, that you can access if you click on the image – each of them will lead you to an article or a video about that specific strength:

But for now, let\’s just see what each of them means:

Perseverance – is a strength within the virtue category of Courage, one of the six virtues that include the 24 strengths. Courage describes strengths that help you exercise your will and face adversity.

According to VIA, perseverance is the ability to complete tasks, to be persistent and gritty, and overcome all obstacles.

Curiosity – Perspective is a strength within Wisdom, one of six virtues in which the 24 strengths are included. Wisdom describes strengths that help you gather and use knowledge.

Curiosity is our ability to be and act as an “explorer,” to feel intrigued, be open and a novelty-seeker (quote from VIA).

Hope is a strength within the virtue category of Wisdom, just like Curiosity.

According to VIA, Hope is our ability to have positive expectations, be optimistic, and have confidence in goals and future.

If you did not take your VIA Character Strength Test yet, by now you are probably excited to find out your OWN Strengths, and how you can apply them to Build The Life You Really Want. Then you will most likely want to know what makes you unique (your top 5-6 strengths are unique to you) and how to use your strengths to thrive and flourish.

Well, im looking forward to meeting you, so we can discover together how you can live your life from a position of strength, with more fulfilment.

Stay close for the next blogpost, where we will see what is the \”golden mean\” for each of the character strengths we talked about today – we will learn how each of them can be used optimally (not too little or too much).

Remember, 2024 will be (y)our BEST year yet ;)!

Until next time, stay positive and take care of yourselves!