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Hi and welcome!
By the end of this program, you can expect to know a LOT more about yourself. Your strengths, needs, desires and values. You’ll also learn how to use this information to create goals that align to your interests and strengths, and then map out tasks to bring those goals to life.
Quick warning - if for any reason you accidentally move something around or delete content and you can’t fix it, don’t sweat it. Just download the template again and start over.
Let’s kick this process off with a little visioning exercise. Your life vision can be big, small, outrageous or pretty mainstream. It doesn’t matter as long as it’s meaningful for you. Have fun with this process!
Our character strengths speak to what drives us, gives us energy and reflects how we naturally tend to think, feel and behave. The VIA Character Strengths Assessment is known to be the most psychometrically accurate inventory of human strengths across all cultures, genders and race. To complete the assessment, please head to the official website and follow the steps to complete the assessment. It’s free, and you’ll need about 20 minutes to complete it.
Once you have your results, click on the link below where you’ll see a list of the strengths. Please prioritize your results in the table provided. If you don’t want to enter all 24, just enter your top 6 strengths.
Most of us go through life with unmet needs. In fact, we're often not even aware of what our core needs are!
In order to achieve our goals (without getting burned out or overwhelmed), we have to understand what we need to be a whole person so we can show up as our very best. Once we know our unique set of needs, we can do the work to start meeting them. Ensuring our needs are being met is the foundation of self-care, and self-worth.
The following assessment will help you uncover your core needs. Don't overthink this process. Just get centered, take a deep breath and check off anything that feels true to you. Please don't judge your choices. Needs are not bad or good. They just are. The more you can be honest with yourself, the deeper you'll go with this work.
Once you’ve completed the assessment, add up your check marks under each category. The areas where you scored the highest are your most prominent needs. Take a moment to reflect on what comes up, then answer the following questions to dive deeper into your results and how to use them.
Your values are what you deem as being important. They are often aligned with needs, but they’re different in that a value is something that lights you up and you feel strongly about, whereas a need is something we require to function. Value is determined by the meaning that you attach to it. For example, I may value cars or in-person meetings, but I don’t need them.