In the last blog post on the Art of Manifesting your A-1 Goal, I shared with you the 3 part creation process that allows that energy from your imagination to come into physical existence. Now, in Part 2 of this process, I will share some steps that are more concrete. This part will involve your senses.

First make sure your A-1 goal is specific. You may want to make sure it fits into all the SMART criteria. Through the aid of your senses and your imagination you must form a clear, concise image of yourself already in possession of your goal. This helps you clarify the image in your conscious mind. It is important the image is being stated in the present tense as you describe yourself already in possession of your goal. This helps develop cells of recognition in your brain.

Place your written goal someplace where you can view it daily. Every time you think of your goal, those brain cells will vibrate and send a picture to the screen of your mind. The moment you consciously entertain the image of yourself in possession of your goal you have it on the first level creation, the intellectual level.

Did you know that the top 3% of successful people write out their goals daily? Remember writing causes thinking, which creates emotion, which ultimately creates action. Besides your kinesthetic or touch sense and your sense of sight, you are now going to involve your hearing sense. Our sense of hearing is the first of our five senses to develop in the fetus. Sound creates a vibrational bridge to the “now moment”. Our subconscious mind is all about the “now”.

To get the image of your goal firmly planted into your sub conscious mind, you can use the power of auto-suggestion.  Narrate your written image and listen to it daily. This creates the right vibration or magnetic force that helps attract into your life all that is in harmony with your goal.

Adding positive affirmations with lots of emotion in the recording attracts the right vibrations. The moment you get emotionally involved with your goal, the image instantly and automatically begins to move into physical form. You now have your goal on the second level creation.

Reading your goal card, listening to your recording in your own voice, writing your goal over and over with constant spaced repetition and feeling the emotion, will bring it from the unseen into the physical. The repetition also will address our logical mind and our fixed ideas or paradigms that hold us back. This also moves us into the appropriate action steps.

It is vitally important that you not only understand but believe in this creative process. Once we have our goal manifesting, we have the goal in the third level of creation, the physical. We call that our results.

Even though these steps may seem too simple, I can assure you that if you follow them, you will experience new results in your life that you previously thought were not possible.

Dare to Dream!

Charlene

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In the last blog post, I shared with you a process to find your top A-1 goal. Now that you know what you want, how do you manifest it so you can see it on the physical plane? Here is the 3 part creation process that allows that energy from your imagination to come into a physical fact. This is part 1 of the process and in the next blog post, I will share the more concrete steps to make your goal a reality.

First, consider that your goal at this point is just a fantasy, some thoughts in your conscious mind. You start by building this fantasy. Then you take the fantasy and move it from a fantasy to a theory. You must believe you are able and be willing to do what is required in order to turn the theory about your wants into a goal.

Now before the theory can become a goal, you must ask yourself two questions. The first question is, Am I able to do this? You have infinite potential so the answer to this first question must be an emphatic yes.

The second question is, Am I willing to do whatever is required to cause the image in my mind to manifest into physical form in my life? When your answer to that question is yes, your theory immediately becomes a goal or a fact, and when you turn your goal over to your subconscious mind, the laws of the universe kick in and the law of perpetual transmutation of energy takes over and your goal begins to move into physical form.

As you get emotionally involved with the goal, you’re going to involve your emotions and the expression of that emotional involvement is going to change your behavior. With this behavioral change you begin to attract to you all those things required for the manifestation of your image.

As your behavior changes, the results start to change and your theory turns into a fact. So there are 3 stages of creation — fantasy, theory and fact (your goal).

If you truly have an A-1 goal, then this goal is something you have never done before and it may even be a bit scary to you, at the same time very exciting. It will help you grow. Because this goal is still in non-physical form, it is important not to let outside conditions or circumstances stop you. Refuse to listen to anyone who says it can’t be done. Stay focused on your goal and how it going to make you feel once you attain it.

Stay tuned for the next steps in manifesting your A-1 goal into reality.

Dare to Dream!

Charlene

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Did you know that there are 3 different types of life goals? I didn’t before I became a coach with Life Success, Bob Proctor’s organization. I thought a goal was a something you envisioned for your future, planned and then worked towards its achievement.

When I found out there were three types of goals, I learned that goals not only needed to be SMART but had to involve the imagination. I think everyone has heard of SMART goals. SMART usually stands for:

S – Specific or significant

M – Measurable or meaningful

A – Attainable or action-oriented

R – Relevant or rewarding

T – Time-bound or trackable

Even though these tips are very helpful with setting goals, they do not address our creative potential. Here are the three types of goals:

• A Type goals are doing something you already know how to do.
• B Type goals are what you think you can do. If you know how to reach your goal, the goal is not going to do for you what goals are designed to do.
• C Type goals are your wants. They come from your fantasies and are originated through the effective use of your imagination. Napoleon Hill said, “Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.”

Type C goals are the ones that inspire us, the ones we fantasize about but don’t know how we are going to get them. Our society is big on the how. So many of us think, based on our early schooling, that if we don’t know how we are going to get something then maybe we should let it go. We, or our relatives, friends, etc., talk us out of what we really want because it is not “realistic”. We play it safe with B Type goals and this relaxes the people around us as we are staying within our comfort zone.

Type C goals are going after something you’ve never done before. These are designed to help you grow; they cause you to draw something from yourself that you didn’t even know was there. If you really want to accomplish something, it must be something that inspires you by going after something you really want, it’s going to have to come from inside.

So the question is, what do you really want? Take the lid off your mind and dream. Really engage your imagination. I encourage you to write out at least 30 wants. Once you have them written, divide them into A, B, and C wants. Put your top 10 on the A list. Then prioritize the top 10 in order of importance. You will end up with your top A-1 goal.

Now there is a whole process that allows that energy from your imagination (your goal) to come into physical existence. I will go into that process in my next blog. Just remember if it is really a worthy goal, it is going to encourage you to grow and develop your potential and it may frighten you as well. And this is good.

Dare to Dream!

Charlene

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This blog post is part 2 on the Thinking Into Results program that deals with the mind and inductive thinking. When we study this we see that everything in our lives is an expression of our mind.

In my last blog post, we discussed the fact that we have  our mind and our body. The two parts of our mind are the conscious mind and the subconscious mind.

So, you might be wondering – what influences my mind? How do we choose a positive thought or a negative thought?

Well, we possess five physical senses: Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. We have been conditioned to learn from these senses from a very young age. These senses are hard wired like a little antenna into our mind.

Our five senses are how we have been taught to gather the majority of information from our environment. These senses are always on and are always being bombarded by our environment; TV, radio, newspapers, billboards and conversations around us.

We have been so conditioned to respond to our environment through these senses that many people are not aware they possess intellectual factors that allow for inductive thinking.

There is a better way to influence your thoughts independent of your environment and that is through the higher side of your mind, your intellect.

Most people have never been conditioned or taught to work with their intellect. Yet it is the proper use of these faculties that will allow us to control the way we think.

They are like mental muscles and when you learn to use these intellectual faculties, you will create the results and live the life you desire.

These intellectual factors are:

• Reason,
• Intuition,
• Perception,
• Will,
• Memory, and
• Imagination.

Reason is the factor that gives us the ability to think for ourselves and to control what gets into our subconscious mind.

Intuition allows us to pick up on vibrations all around us.

Perception is how we see our world. Perception is our point of view. Do you know that everyone sees differently? We see though the filters of our beliefs. Dr. Wayne Dyer says, “When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.”

Will concentrates our mental power and gives us focus.

Memory takes time to develop but there are tools that can help us improve our memory.

Imagination is the most marvelous tool as it helps build the images of what we desire and allow us freedom over our sensory factors.

This realization changed my life as I had been addicted to looking at only the physical results for most of my life. Utilizing the intellectual factors stimulated my creative abilities to go after bigger goals and attain them.

The program I am going to introduce to you will help to achieve your goals. So instead of gathering information from the lower side of our nature, (our senses), you see how to develop and use the higher side of our personality, our intellect.

You were designed to create and live a life you desire and that is why I am so grateful to work with people everyday teaching them how to use these same resources and intellectual faculties to achieve and live the life of their dreams.

I invite you to take your next step toward success by enrolling into the Thinking Into Results Program. Learn how to tap into and unlock your greatest resource for success – your mind. Or join one of our Mastermind groups and learn more about how You Were Born Rich.

Dare to Dream!

Charlene

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I am a Thinking Into Results Facilitator with Bob Proctor. The Thinking Into Results program helps individuals and businesses gain greater professional and personal success. This blog is part one of a series to help explain the mind.

The major part of this program deals with the mind. If I ask you to imagine your car, you will probably get a picture of your car right away. If I ask a person to form a picture of their mind, they will most often picture their brain. Most people have difficulty in visualizing a picture of the mind so I am going to show you an image to help us create a picture of the mind.

Back in the 1930s, there was a Dr. Thurman Fleet who created a representation of our mind called the stickperson to help people with their healing. He understood that the mind was behind many dis-eases and developed this diagram to help people visualize and heal.

After Bob Proctor was introduced to this diagram it became an essential tool of all of Bob’s programs and I want to introduce you to the concept of the stickperson. Just a note, we will use this diagram for learning purposes but be aware that the mind is actually in every cell in the body.

As we can see from the diagram, we will let the large circle represent the mind and the attached the small circle below represent the body.

The mind in this picture is much larger than the body and we do this on purpose because that is where we are going to put our awareness as we understand the importance of the mind. What you are about to learn is that everything in our life is an expression of our mind and it is our body that merely carries out the action. The mind is an activity and the body is the manifestation of that activity.

Our mind is made up of two parts, our conscious mind and our subconscious mind. In this illustration we have drawn a line across the middle of the big circle. We let the top half of the circle represent the conscious mind and the bottom half of the circle represent the subconscious mind.

Our conscious mind is our thinking mind. What we are conscious of most of the time. Free will and our awareness originate here. We can choose our thoughts here because our conscious mind can accept or reject ideas.

Our subconscious mind is our feeling and emotional mind. This is the part of our mind where we store our memories, habits, conditioned beliefs, self-image and this part has no ability to reject any thought. It is our power center and functions in every cell of our body. It is also connected to spirit, all that is. This is the part we are not conscious of and it cannot determine the difference between that which is real or what is imagined.

Thoughts that are held in our conscious mind and impressed upon our subconscious mind must move into our body through some sort of action. Our thinking causes feelings or vibrations, and our feelings bring actions, and our actions bring results, and our results are what we call our lives or our circumstances. When we study this we see that everything in our lives is an expression of our mind.

If you want to know what kind of thoughts you are thinking, take a look at your results. Results don’t lie. You are truly thinking into results all the time.

If you are not happy with your results, you must first start by changing the thoughts you are thinking. When you change what is on the inside, your thoughts, you can change what is on the outside usually through spaced repetition or an emotional impact.

It is critical to understand that your current results are not a reflection of your potential. Your current results are nothing more than a reflection of your previous thinking. Your potential is unlimited. It is something called paradigms that limit you.

The Thinking Into Results program I facilitate will show you how to tap into your true potential and work on changing your paradigms so you can attain the life you are looking to create. I invite you to take your next step toward success by enrolling into the Thinking Into Results Program. Learn how to tap into and unlock your greatest resource for success – your mind.

Dare to Dream!

Charlene

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Are you looking for growth in your business? Are you an entrepreneur who is success oriented?  Are you seriously committed to your own growth? Do you like to collaborate with others? If you answered yes to these questions, then you might like to consider joining a MasterMind group.

When we study people like Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Michael Dell, Oprah Winfrey and hundreds of other successful people in the world, we find there are “secrets to success” that have been used and proven for many years by these people.

One of these “secrets” to success is the MasterMind created by Napoleon Hill.   MasterMind groups are a group of two or more persons coming together where the thing they have in common is that they want to accomplish a goal, or deal with a challenge, or grow their business, or grow personally.

The MasterMind concept is based on an ancient idea that when two or more come together, they create a third invisible intangible force which is likened to the third mind in the MasterMind. The MasterMind group energy establishes a direct connection with that of a Higher Power or Universal Collective Mind.

The MasterMind provides an opportunity for each member to unleash and realize their own individual potential. Sometimes it is easier to recognize the potential in others than seeing it in ourselves. The principle also conveys that other like-minded individuals can believe in ideas you may find difficult to conceive or believe for yourself. These ideas will be held and accepted as true by your MasterMind partners until you can find it in yourself.

The group meets regularly in an atmosphere of trust and harmony for the purpose of providing mutual support and encouragement. The group is not to solve each other’s problems but rather surrender such requests to the energy of the MasterMind.  Solutions occur in a most amazing way when this is done.

Being in a MasterMind group is like having your very own objective board of directors. You spend an hour a week with like-minded people and share ideas and connect to ideas that you might not have thought of before. A MasterMind partner will come to the group with an idea that could skyrocket your business, change your business, change your income, change your state in life, or change the course of your life. Thousands of people have demonstrated dramatic, positive changes in their lives, myself included, thanks to Masterminding.

If you are ready for a life-altering experience, if you are ready to begin the journey of a lifetime, if you are ready to discover the secret to your infinite potential, then raise the bar and join a MasterMind. I am hosting a series of MasterMind groups this spring. If you are interested in this awesome opportunity, please feel free to contact me for more information.

Dare to Dream!

Charlene

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I have a vision and dream of creating an environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling human presence on this planet through entrepreneurial leadership. I see an awakening or shift in consciousness about this, a reconnection with our deeper purpose. It is time to awaken to the possibilities rather than be caught in old patterns of conditioning. We are seeing that our materialistic lifestyle is unsustainable with the unprecedented depletion of species, global warming, and global economic instability.

We have the opportunity this year to create a sustainable world and I believe it is imperative to join together to do this. One of the fastest ways to accomplish this is through developing leaders. One of the fastest ways to develop leaders is through entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs step into their power, and with persistence and determination, create businesses that result in the kind of life they desire. They are risk takers and identify and service unmet needs, creating value through solutions. They initiate change or take advantage of change, value self-reliance, strive for excellence, and are highly optimistic and future driven. They see problems as opportunities and then creatively identify the solutions to those problems.

I love this quote, “The question of reaching sustainability is not about if we will have enough energy, food, or other resources…The question is: Will there be enough leaders in time?”  Dr. Karl-Henrik Robert, Founder, The Natural Step.

My mission is to empower, enrich and improve the lives of entrepreneurs by showing them a non-competitive way to earn income, promote leadership and be part of creating a healing global shift of social change and responsibility.

It’s the entrepreneurial energy, creativity and motivation that triggers change in the world. Entrepreneurs can act as spark plugs activating and stimulating economic activity. The most dynamic societies in the world are the ones that have the most entrepreneurs.

When we bring leadership into the mix, we can accelerate the change in the world. Leaders are entrepreneur types with purpose and passion who can visualize a better world in the future and are able to convince or influence others to willingly join them on the journey because of their inspired vision.

Leadership is the stretch of changing things that can be changed, of providing new thinking, new energy, to the current situation. Leadership means making a difference, creating a positive change; providing the impetus that creates an atmosphere of change that improves the world.

My company Potentials Within expresses what I feel. Each of us has the potential to be whatever we desire, and the answers are within each of us. The company provides a loving supportive environment that encourages personal growth, fun and fulfillment of vision and purpose. I offer the opportunity to experience a deeply fulfilling career as an entrepreneur, one that not only rewards financially but personally, professionally, emotionally and spiritually.

Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience. Potentials Within offers educational programs that inspire, enrich and empower entrepreneurs and enhance leadership. I invite you to join us.

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Charlene

This is an interesting year, 2012. It is the Year of the Water Dragon. For the Chinese, the dragon is the luckiest and most auspicious of all the animal signs. The Dragon comes to us this year with offerings of hope, strength and courage and its appearance means that big things are to come.  The dragon is a symbol of power.

2012 also ends a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. So this year would be considered a completion year in that cycle. Just for the record, December 22, 2012 is the beginning of another 5,125-year-long cycle. (Just to counter any so-called predictions you may have heard or read). My purpose for bringing this fact in is that completion years bring a certain kind of energy with them. There is a sense of urgency to fulfill your desires and a craving to complete or become complete.

So when you combine both of these energies for 2012, you have hope, strength and courage with a sense of urgency to complete. I believe that many people are looking for something this year and I feel that it is meaning and a sense of purpose. Some are clear on their sense of purpose but some are not.

Below is a purpose finder exercise put together by Robert Allen and myself. Take some alone time and explore these questions and see if you get any clearer on your sense of purpose.

Passion

• What do I love to do?
• What activities give me the most satisfaction?
• What excites me about life?
• What is my secret ambition?
• What are my hobbies?

Talent

• What am I good at?
• What other people told me I’m good at?
• Where have I excelled in the past?
• Where have I been successful?
• What are some of my strengths?

Values

• What is important to me?
• Why would I commit to, if money was no object?
• What do I stand for? What won’t I stand for?
• What would I be willing to risk my life for?
• Given only five years to live, what must I accomplish?
• What values guide my daily life?

Destiny

• What was I born to do?
• What is my unique mission in life? My niche?
• What does God (The Creator/Infinite Power) want me to do with my life?
• What unique opportunities are placed in my path?
• Where can I make a difference?
• What do I sense is my destiny?

So even if you are already clear on your purpose, you may want to answer these questions, to get an update on where you are presently.

Here’s to your completion clarity.

I would love to hear if this exercise helped you in your completion process. If you need any coaching around this, please feel free to contact me.

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Good communication is like tennis. The reason why communication has been likened to a game of tennis is because communication involves both sending and receiving information just like a tennis ball. Effective communication is an essential skill that is used daily and is related to success in all facets of life, not only business.

Communication is central to your business, yet because it is a complicated exchange of energy, there is sometimes a gap between the ideas communicated and the ideas perceived. At any time during the communication process, misunderstandings and conflicts can occur. The consequences of failure in communication can be detrimental to a personal or business relationship. Good communication will lead to good working relationships and support your business.

Communication Process

The communication process has the following seven elements:

• The sender who is disseminating the message.
• The message is the information which is in the mind of the sender, which they intend to disseminate.
• Encoding: the process of putting the message into a form (using words or symbols) that is understandable by the receiver.
• The channel-mode used to transmit message – written or verbal
• Decoding: the receiver translates the words or symbols into a message that they understand.
• The receiver who is the person processing and reacting to the message.
• Feedback – the receiver responds to the sender showing understanding

Effective communication occurs only if the receiver understands the exact message the sender intended to transmit. The ultimate goal of communication is to convey information and understanding of information from one sender or group to another receiver or group. Mis-communication can occur at any stage in the communication process.

Main Forms of Communication

There are three main forms of communication and they are:

• Oral Communication – this form of communication involves verbally disseminating information to the intended audience.
• Written Communication – this communication may be in the form of letters, memos and emails.
• Body Language – this form of communication involves the use of body postures, body gestures and eye contact.

When a sender conveys mixed messages, researchers observed that the receiver relies on the following cues to determine true meaning:

• 55% by body language
• 38% by voice communication
• 7% by the content or the words spoken

Closing the Gap on Mis-communication

In order to close the gap, it pays to consider all the verbal, facial and bodily expressions, indirect and direct elements of the communication process. Now we see why communication is considered complicated. There are so many elements that could be causing the misinterpretation of the communication.

Pointers for the Sender to Improve Communication

• Act like the receiver is the most interesting person in the whole world.
• Make eye contact.
• Be sensitive to the receiver’s wants, needs and issues.
• Communicate a clear message.
• Be aware that the receiver makes judgments based on what they feel, not on what they think.
• Be aware of your tone of voice and match it to your message.
• Don’t talk too much, make it a dialogue
• Be aware that the more you get the receiver to talk, the more successful the communication
• Be aware of your facial and body language and that it is congruent with your message.
• Listen to the receiver after giving your message.
• Ask questions in an easy, conversational style that lets the receiver know they’re being listened to.

Pointers for the Receiver to Improve Communication

• Communication involves respect for the sender and giving them the opportunity to say what they want even though this may be contrary to your beliefs and ideologies.
• Make eye contact.
• Be sensitive to the sender’s wants, needs and issues.
• Be attentive to what the sender is saying by really listening.
• Don’t interrupt or fidget.
• Be aware that your facial and body language is in a receptive state.
• Don’t prepare a response while the sender is talking.
• Rephrase or paraphrase what you just heard.
• Pay attention to non-verbal clues or hints.
• Ask questions in an easy, conversational style that lets the sender know they’re being listened to.

I’m sure there are many more pointers to ensure a great communication experience for both the sender and the receiver, but the above will be a great place to start.

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Know Thyself

In my blog post Why Are You Doing This Business? 12 Questions to Uncovering Your Dreams, Vision and Mission, point number seven asked you to notice your strengths. Noticing strengths is sometimes hard for folks as they feel they come across as egotistical if they talk about their strengths. On the contrary, knowing your strengths gives you a better sense of self and in terms of being an entrepreneur, gives you a better chance of success.  First you will be able to choose the kind of business best suited to your strengths and second you know where you need to get help with the areas you are not strong in. So this knowledge is extremely important for entrepreneurial success.

In this blog post, we’ll discuss 24 personal character strengths. Martin Seligman, past president of the American Psychological Association and founder of the modern positive psychology movement and Christopher Peterson, professor at the University of Michigan since 1986 and member of the Positive Psychology Steering Committee, spent three years researching strengths.

They came up with a list of personal character strengths. Here are the 24 strengths of character at present, grouped in 6 categories:

Strengths of Wisdom and Knowledge: Cognitive strengths that entail the acquisition and use of knowledge.

1. Creativity [originality, ingenuity]: Thinking of novel and productive ways to conceptualize and do things.

2. Curiosity [interest, novelty-seeking, openness to experience]: Taking an interest in ongoing experience for its own sake; exploring and discovering.

3. Open-mindedness [judgment, critical thinking]: Thinking things through and examining them from all sides; weighing all evidence fairly.

4. Love of learning: Mastering new skills, topics and bodies of knowledge, whether on one’s own or formally.

5. Perspective [wisdom]: Being able to provide wise counsel to others; having ways of looking at the world that make sense to oneself and to other people.

Strengths of Courage: Emotional strengths that involve the exercise of will to accomplish goals in the face of opposition, external and internal.

6. Bravery [valor]: Not shrinking from threat, challenge, difficulty, or pain; acting on convictions even if unpopular.

7. Persistence [perseverance, industriousness]: Finishing what one starts; persisting in a course of action in spite of obstacles.

8. Integrity [authenticity, honesty]: Presenting oneself in a genuine way; taking responsibility for one’s feeling and actions.

9. Vitality [zest, enthusiasm, vigor, energy]: Approaching life with excitement and energy; feeling alive and activated.

Strengths of Humanity: interpersonal strengths that involve tending and befriending others.

10. Love: Valuing close relations with others, in particular those in which sharing and caring are reciprocated.

11. Kindness [generosity, nurturance, care, compassion, altruistic love, "niceness"]: Doing favors and good deeds for others.

12. Social intelligence [emotional intelligence, personal intelligence]: Being aware of the motives and feelings of other people and oneself.

Strengths of Justice: Civic strengths that underlie healthy community life.

13. Citizenship [social responsibility, loyalty, teamwork]: Working well as a member of a group or team; being loyal to the group.

14. Fairness: Treating all people the same according to notions of fairness and justice; not letting personal feelings bias decisions about others.

15. Leadership: Encouraging a group of which one is a member to get things done and at the same maintain time good relations within the group.

Strengths of Temperance: strengths that protect against excess.

16. Forgiveness and mercy: Forgiving those who have done wrong; accepting the shortcomings of others; giving people a second chance; not being vengeful.

17. Humility / Modesty: Letting one’s accomplishments speak for themselves; not regarding oneself as more special than one is.

18. Prudence: Being careful about one’s choices; not taking undue risks; not saying or doing things that might later be regretted.

19. Self-regulation [self-control]: Regulating what one feels and does; being disciplined; controlling one’s appetites and emotions.

Strengths of Transcendence: strengths that forge connections to the larger universe and provide meaning.

20. Appreciation of beauty and excellence [awe, wonder, elevation]: Appreciating beauty, excellence, and/or skilled performance in various domains of life.

21. Gratitude: Being aware of and thankful of the good things that happen; taking time to express thanks.

22. Hope [optimism, future-mindedness, future orientation]: Expecting the best in the future and working to achieve it.

23. Humor [playfulness]: Liking to laugh and tease; bringing smiles to other people; seeing the light side.

24. Spirituality [religiousness, faith, purpose]: Having coherent beliefs about the higher purpose, the meaning of life, and the meaning of the universe.

If you would like to find out more about your strengths, check out the VIA Survey of Character Strengths at http://www.authentichappiness.com.

Here’s to your success!

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