🎁 August Wrap-Up: Strengths, Hope, and Confidence

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Hello friend! 👋

Today’s post wraps up the month, and I thought of using this time to pause and recap what we talked about this month.

If you’ve not been able to read all the letters, this may be a chance to do so if the topics interest you.

Let’s dive straight in:

First, living a strength-focused life:

• Your character strengths communicate what you deeply find valuable

• Use strengths actively to bring more purpose and meaning to your work

• Be aware of over and under-use of strengths and maintain “The Golden Mean”

• Notice and acknowledge strengths in people you love for a deeper connection

💪 Did you know that you can lose your own Character Strengths?

Second, making hope happen:

• Have a clear goal, be specific, and make a decision (Latin de-caedre)

• Activate your agency and confidence by taking action and celebrating wins

• Define clear and different pathways toward the goal

• Know that there will always be challenges; the game is played at a high level by developing strategies to overcome and celebrate those challenges, not avoid them.

Unpopular Opinion: Hope is a leadership skill. Here’s an empirically-validated framework to activate it.

Third, the science of agency (confidence)

• 5 evidence-based ways to build agency are Experiences, Role Modeling, Persuasion, Physiological+Emotional States, Visualization

• Build confidence in your kids by allowing them to experience and discover

• Build confidence in yourself by respecting your self-image (celebrate small wins and be compassionate when you make mistakes - you, like everyone else, are not perfect)

• There’s power in starting small; it creates momentum. One actual small step is better than a massive imaginary leap.

Confidence Is Freedom: Here’s How To Use The ‘Science Of Agency’ To Build it

This wraps it up; dig deeper by clicking the link to each of the posts.

Have a Super Sunday!

With much joy,

Hashim

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