Coaching practices for Finding Your Strengths From Past

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I want to know what my real strengths actually are
• I’m staring down something hard now and I feel like I have no idea if I can handle it
• When my mind drifts to the past it goes straight to the regrets and the times I failed or got hurt
• I already know what I’m good at, but I only ever use those strengths in the same few familiar places
• If you asked me to name what I’m actually good at, I’d freeze

Practices that may help

1. Identify your core strengths through your own history
   Find the recurring threads in your best moments to name the strengths that are actually yours.
   Life Review and Reminiscence Therapy
2. Identify the strengths the hardship revealed
   Name capacities you discovered in yourself only because the situation demanded them.
   Benefit-Finding: Locating Meaning and Growth in Adversity
3. Cultivate a past-positive lens
   Actively remember experiences, relationships, and strengths from the past that support rather than undermine you.
   Time Perspective Therapy
4. Use a signature strength in a new way each day for one week
   Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
   VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
5. Take the VIA survey and identify your signature strengths
   Discover your top five to seven character strengths using the validated VIA survey.
   VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
6. Peak experience analysis
   Study your life-line high points for the values and conditions they share — they reveal what fully alive looks like for you.
   The Life Line Exercise
7. Use your signature strengths in a new way
   Identify your top character strengths and deploy one of them differently each day.
   Positive Psychology, Made Practical
8. Connect individual strengths to the broader virtues they serve
   Understand which of the six VIA virtues your signature strengths express, and what that reveals about your character.
   VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
9. Low-point reappraisal
   Return to the valleys on your life line and examine what they gave you — without minimizing what they cost.
   The Life Line Exercise
10. Bridge from signature strengths to purpose
    Identify the top two or three things you do better than most people and trace how they can serve something larger.
    The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self

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