Applying Your Strengths Across Life Domains

Identify, reflect on, and expand the use of your character strengths

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Applying Your Strengths Across Life Domains

Identify, reflect on, and expand the use of your character strengths

Research in positive psychology (Niemiec & McGrath, 2019; Schutte & Malouff, 2023) demonstrates that deliberately applying character strengths in new ways leads to measurable increases in happiness, engagement, and meaning. Many people use their strengths instinctively in one area of life while underutilizing them elsewhere. This worksheet guides you to identify your strengths and then explore how to apply them more broadly across relationships, work, and personal fulfillment.

Identifying Your Strengths

  • Wisdom and perspective: seeing the bigger picture and offering sound guidance.
  • Curiosity: a drive to explore, question, and learn.
  • Courage and bravery: acting on convictions despite fear or difficulty.
  • Kindness and empathy: genuine care for others' well-being.
  • Fairness and integrity: commitment to honesty and equity.
  • Self-regulation and discipline: managing impulses and staying focused.
  • Creativity: generating novel ideas and original solutions.
  • Persistence and determination: continuing effort despite obstacles.
  • Humor and playfulness: finding lightness and joy.
  • Gratitude: recognizing and appreciating what is good.
  • Leadership: guiding, organizing, and inspiring others.
  • Open-mindedness: considering evidence and perspectives before judging.

Strengths in Relationships

  1. List the strengths that serve you best in your relationships, whether romantic partnerships, friendships, or family connections.
  2. Describe a specific moment when one of these strengths helped you navigate a relational challenge or deepen a bond.
  3. Identify two new ways you could intentionally use your strengths to improve a current relationship.

Strengths in Professional Life

  1. List the strengths that contribute most to your effectiveness at work, school, or other professional pursuits.
  2. Describe a time when leaning into a personal strength helped you achieve a professional goal or overcome a work-related obstacle.
  3. Identify two new ways you could deploy your strengths to advance in your career or education.

Strengths in Personal Fulfillment

  1. List the strengths that bring you the most joy, flow, or meaning during hobbies, interests, and leisure activities.
  2. Describe a time when using a personal strength enhanced your sense of fulfillment or satisfaction outside of work and relationships.
  3. Identify two new activities or practices where you could apply your strengths to increase daily enjoyment and purpose.

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