A strategist plans but a joyful one plans for joy. When did you last feel rested? What are you good at that comes so easy you assume it doesn’t count? Who’s in your corner? Whose rules are you still following? What made you smile today? We’ll tackle these questions with heart and extend an invitation to experiment trying something new and joyful.
Good morning. I'm coming today, live from my typical. Ongoing time slot and consider this your midweek. Little boost morning boost. Um, so welcome in and as you join, I would love for you to just drop in. Uh, one word check in. How are you feeling this Wednesday morning? Um, and my first livestream last week, I introduced myself and gave. Some more context to about what I wanna share with you all weekly. In this live. Um, and if you miss that, check it out. Um, I won't repeat myself. But I'm happy that you are here today.
So again, as you're joining drop in the chat on how you're feeling this morning, there's no. Right or wrong answer. How was your body feeling? How's your spirit? All of it is welcome and you are welcome. Uh, so this morning I wanted to give some more context on like, why the joyful strategist live. What (laugh) and where it came from. So I love Gallup's Clifton strengths sometimes referred to as strengths. Strengths finder. And when I was introduced to this in 2022, um, I had already had. A long career had taken other personality assessments.
Um, but it really was transformative for me. Because it gave language to how I naturally. Think and behave suddenly giving more context. To why certain things were really stressful for me. You know, and, and there's things that like, we all find. Really stressful. And if you ever noticed that, you know, um, somebody else may not be as stressed as you in certain situations. Well, that kind of goes back to how. Some of our, our, our Nate strengths and how we behave in that, how we think. And when I took this, I suddenly had more context.
To why certain things days. Situations were stressful for me. Um, but then at other times I was. You know, just cooking with gas and having so much joy. Um, so anyway, my top strength is positivity represented by. My mug this morning, this fun. This is such small writing. But my best friend gave me this and. Um, cuz my top strength is positivity. Um, you know, I'm kind of a glass half full. Person, uh, typically sunny. Um, but I also have strategic in my top strength. And when I think about these two coming together for me, it really gave that language for the joy.
Joyful strategist. Rooted in how I see and operate. In the world and also wanna share stories. Of how I've adopted this mentality. Where this is maybe gotten to me. Into a bit of trouble, but ways that you can think about, um, how to introduce. Some joyful strategy into your daily life. So with that. Again, um, super excited to, again, to continue this journey. On, um, my weekly lives dropping the chat, send me a message. I wanna understand, um, if you've taken Clifton strengths, I'd be curious to hear what it is.
Um, and how it's impacted, um, how you operate, you know, at work and at home, have a great week. See you next.
