Strength Finding

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Yesterday, I took a test. (Yep, adults still have to take tests.) And it wasn’t just one that showed that I needed to spend more hours on the treadmill and fewer decades gazing at the chocolate pastries in the Panera display case…

It was a “strengths finder” test. Based on the best-selling Now, Discover Your Strengths, the test revealed that I had five major strengths:

Input
Communication
Ideation
Self-Assurance
Command

After consulting the explanations in the book, my loose interpretation of this result is that I love learning and archiving new ideas, facts, and concepts, turning them into stories, and making people sit and listen to them.

Duh. That part I knew. Too bad they can’t tell me WHAT stories people want to hear most.

Sometimes we already know how to make the passion come to life (aka our strengths)…the real trick is finding out what the passion is. I personally think this is a lifelong journey, at least for me.

If you’re also striving toward this, check out McNair Wilson’s blog, Tea with McNair. I’ve mentioned Mr. Wilson before, after returning from the Blue Ridge Christian Writers Conference, where he was a keynote speaker. I love his blog (check out especially the entry from 7/10, “you have no sequel”), mostly because of his take on the creative process. I may not agree with everything he says, but his thoughts are ones to take into your archived collection of thoughts and ideas and mull over carefully.

For now, I have more mulch and fodder to toss about…

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