People with the Ideation talent theme from StrengthsFinder love innovating with ideas. They are fascinated by ideas. They can connect the dots from random perspectives. Understanding the Ideation Strength Ideation is a strategic thinking theme that ranks 15 in...
Seligman’s Moonshot Goal In Martin Seligman’s seminal book, Flourish, he concludes with what I like to see as his sigh of the soul. He talks of when he was at the first World Congress of the IPPA in 2009 and James Pawelski posed this question: “What vision can we...
People with the Futuristic talent theme from StrengthsFinder are especially talented at visioneering what could be. Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Mark Zuckerberg love to inspire people with a dream of the future. They vision and engineer the possibilities of...
Lingering after images and meaning in life After-imaging is related to visual perception and light activity associated with sight. It is an optical phenomenon whereby the image a person experiences, through sensation, remains lingering in an altered state. Within the...
Hopping aboard the UNhappy train With the happiness movement in full swing I thought I would go against the grain and talk about how to be completely and ridiculously UNhappy! I am somewhat of an expert of this topic since I was suicidal from the age of 12 to 24 and...
My coaching client discovered how Context helped him look back to live forward. He was struggling in his current career role. He lost his health, happiness and confidence. His #1 StrengthsFinder talent theme was Context and he loved looking back, reminiscing on his...
Usually a little J-Lo will do the trick. I take her Let’s Get Loud literally, crank the stereo and wonder how her “block” could ever have resembled mine. But though Jenny’s love might not cost a thing, deep down I know my own self-neglect might be costing me dearly....
I could tell within seconds of talking to Andy that his dominant strength was Analytical, a man whose first response was always “prove it.” He wanted proof of any claim. He wanted data, statistics and facts. Yet even more facts often wasn’t enough to settle things...
What is Realise2? A couple of years ago I was introduced to something called Realise2. I quickly learned this to be an advanced developmental tool to assess people’s individual strengths. Realise2 consists of various sections that are really useful to distinguish...
“What makes us weird also makes us wonderful; what makes us weak also makes us strong.” The Leaning Tower My good friend and author, David Rendall in his book, The Freak Factor uses this quote in relation to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The Leaning Tower of Pisa has a...