hello wonderful humans welcome back to the bliss bean you are a unique person that's
just a fact it's a scientific fact you are a unique person with unique strengths I'm sure
this is mind-blowing information that you haven't heard a million times before so I was inspired to
make this video because one day I had a day where I spent the entire day in front of my computer I
was planning YouTube videos creating worksheets setting up my photography website etc etc and
maybe that sounds boring to you but I was so engaged and my mind was going full-speed and I was
practically bursting with ideas and enthusiasm and I realized hey I'm working but I'm in such a state
of flow that it doesn't even feel like work I realized that I want to feel like this in life as
much as possible and in order to do that I have to understand what I'm good at so in this video we're
going to focus on learning about our strengths and going through an interactive exercise to
figure out how to apply our strengths to create our dream lives I made a worksheet for this that
you can print out and follow along with me so the link to download that is in the description so if
you only focus on what you lack you'll just spend your time and energy trying to bring those traits
up to an average level and even things out where instead you could take what you're already good
at and just run with it and get SuperDuper good at it there's certainly value in being able to
do a lot of things well but if you can really hone in on what makes you special you can set yourself
apart more have a more fulfilling career etc this reminds me of some college admissions advice that
I read about being well-rounded versus having what is called a spike so well-rounded is a student who
got good grades did well on cast in a few clubs we do through sports but nothing really stands out
that much whereas having a spike is having some amazing achievement like publishing a book while
you're in high school or winning some really fancy National Science Award or having rich parents
and being on a fake rowing team so basically it's okay to have multiple interests but you just don't
want to spread yourself too thin because it can be really valuable lucrative and fulfilling to really
pour all of your time and energy to the things that click most with you so how do you figure
out your strengths here are a few questions you can think about first when do you feel inflow in
other words when are you completely immersed very focused fully using your skillset and maybe you've
been enjoying it so much that you don't feel the time passing by even though you're technically
working so for me sometimes when I'm in flow are what I'm planning videos or social media calendars
taking like a really aesthetic Flatley and getting everything set up just right leading small groups
of people just creating in general think about not just hard skills like painting or crunching
numbers but also soft skills like encouraging people making people laugh or brainstorming
ideas second look at what activities have drawn you in throughout your life for me I realized
that media was a passion for me because even though I didn't really draw out like a master
plan for middle school in high school I noticed that all the activities I was kind of drawn to
you were suspiciously similar to like your book the school newspaper making the senior video FBLA
even if it's not something that's so clear-cut like obviously working on the newspaper is a sign
that I'm interested in media and publishing maybe think about certain parts of your job or certain
parts of your classes where you felt excited and inspired so I didn't really like ap micro
but for our final project we were allowed to make a video and I was like okay I can vibe with that
and finally third to figure out your strengths you can just take a test sometimes it's just hard to
take an objective look at yourself because we have so many internalized beliefs about what we're good
at what we're bad at what we think you can never get better at spoiler alert you can get better
at pretty much anything so you guys know I really like personality test but there are also tests for
figuring up your strengths so I want to thank hi-5 for sponsoring this week's video and for helping
me figure out my own strengths the high-five test tells you what your strengths are based on your
answers to simple specific questions which I think makes it easier to answer accurately and honestly
rather than just asking yourself the broad and kind of overwhelming question what am I good at
so taking the test and finding out your top five strengths is completely free to do on Instagram
I asked you guys to guess what you think my strengths were so drumroll now I'm going to tell
you honestly none of this is surprising number one deliver to timekeeper three focus expert for
coach and five optimist I almost feel like if you have to pick five of these to describe the Bliss
Bean and those would be the five so yeah after we finish answering the questions you get your own
strengths profile with your top five strengths you get a little description of each one you
can also invite your friends to take the test for you and see what they think your top five strings
would be or they can take it for themselves and you can compare answers I just started getting
so excited and nervous all of this I was telling my dad about it and he was just like okay cool so
if you're a personality and self development nerd like me the test is free to take so go down to the
description and take it find out your results and then come back because we're moving on to the last
so according to hi-5 there are five major criteria that define a strength you feel natural at using
and developing your ability you get positive energy when using your strengths others also
perceive it as your strength it goes along with your values and understanding of a strength and
it satisfies your inner needs so to fully engage with and ponder my strengths I kind of took each
of those characteristics and I made it into a journaling prompt to answer so for example one
of my strengths is coach and kind of combining questions 1 & 3 when do I use this ability in
my daily life and when have people come to me for this ability I felt friends with figuring
out their planning and organization systems and then for question 2 how do I feel when I use this
ability it makes me really really happy when someone tells me that something that I shared
on the place being helped them another one of my strengths is optimist so I said that every
day I practice gratitude throughout the day it makes me happy to look at the positives but
I also feel really good when I can help other people see the positives on the other side of
the worksheet that's where I got into applying each of my strings to each area of my life the
high five test emphasizes that as an individual you can use your strengths to improve yourself
your career in your relationships so that's three areas of your life five strings bada-bing
bada-boom we have ourselves a table you can use each box of this table to break down some notes
and ideas for how you can apply that strength to improving your life so for example for deliver for
life I said I could try some sort of a new habit for my health and well-being because one of my
strengths is being able to really follow through on something that I commit myself to for career
I need to remind myself to take a pause before I say yes something because I really want to fully
deliver on everything that I've committed to so if I commit to many things that everything will
suffer and I don't have enough time for the most important things finally for relationships I just
said make time with loved ones a priority so like schedule it put on my calendar because if I commit
to it I can deliver on it but if I don't then it might not happen for time keeper career I said I
want to create more systems for content creation and try to batch more of my work and schedule it
I feel like I have been getting better at that so like filming and editing five pep talks all
at once or planning out all of my Instagram post one or two weeks ahead of time and having all the
captions written but I also feel like I can get better at it and I feel like blogging will be
more enjoyable the more I can just streamline the process and feel less stressed based on
meeting deadlines or focus expert career one of the weaknesses of someone with a focus expert
strength is that once we choose our app we can get so focused on it that we might not realize that
it's the wrong path to get us to the goal that we want to get to so for that I wrote down that I
want to set up a system to regularly review if my actions are actually putting me on the right path
if I'm putting all of my focused time and energy into the right activities if you want to read the
rest of my answers you can just like pause this video I guess if you're having trouble coming
up with ideas for this part after you take the initial test you can also download a full strength
report this is mine it's like 24 pages long for each strength it gives you things to watch out for
how it interacts with your other strengths what strengths you want to look for in other people
who you're going to be working with and then it also gives you action ideas so that's what you can
put in your table I chose three big things from this table to work on and develop this month since
you've probably got a ton of ideas here it's good to just narrow it down for now and then you can
always work on the rest later so I hope you found this whole exercise and earning out with me about
strengths testing helpful again you can download this interactive worksheet in the description
there is also a link to taking the high five tests to find out what your strengths are and
I also have a discount code for you so that you can get 10% off a full strengths report if you
want to learn like everything there is to know about your strengths it's really comprehensive
and fascinating you can always start with just taking the free basic test and then deciding
later if you want to check out the full report so yeah as always thank you so much for watching
please give this video a like and subscribe to my channel and I will see you next week bye