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Strengths Insight and Action-Planning Guide

SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 11-16-2015

Christine Menger
Your Top 5 Themes
Relator
Strategic
Responsibility
Belief
Achiever

What's in This Guide?

Section I: Awareness
A brief Shared Theme Description for each of your top five themes
Your Personalized Strengths Insights, which describe what makes you stand out from others
with the same theme in their top five
Questions for you to answer to increase your awareness of your talents
Section II: Application
10 Ideas for Action for each of your top five themes
Questions for you to answer to help you apply your talents
Section III: Achievement
Examples of what each of your top five themes "sounds like" -- real quotes from people who
also have the theme in their top five
Steps for you to take to help you leverage your talents for achievement

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Section I: Awareness

Relator
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Relator theme enjoy close relationships with others. They
find deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a goal.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?
Because of your strengths, you are definitely honest with yourself about yourself. Your personal
integrity leads you to do the right thing in most situations. By nature, you build partnerships and
friendships one by one. You want to know each individuals hopes and ambitions. You recognize that
everyone has a unique style of working, thinking, learning, or problem solving. From the start, you
strive to identify someones personal and professional objectives. When you are successful, the
quality of your interactions with this person is enhanced. Driven by your talents, you are drawn to the
process of gaining knowledge and skills. You long to build on what you already know. You yearn to
improve on what you already can do. When you meet people who value education as much as you
do, you are eager to hear about their personal or professional ambitions, intentions, or goals.
Understanding what others aim to accomplish in the coming weeks, months, or years can be the
beginning of a practical partnership or an enduring friendship. Chances are good that you have close
companions who frequently seek your guidance. You help them find answers to their personal and
professional problems. This makes you a valuable friend. Instinctively, you fill your mind with new
ideas by asking questions, reading, studying, observing, or listening. Normally, you accumulate facts,
data, stories, examples, or background information from the people you meet. Determining what they
want to accomplish in the coming weeks, months, or years generally satisfies your curiosity. These
insights also allow you to understand why individuals behave they way they do in different situations.
Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to
you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

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Strategic
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Strategic theme create alternative ways to proceed. Faced
with any given scenario, they can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?
By nature, you work diligently to invent alternative courses of action. You notice new as well as
unusual configurations in facts, evidence, or data. Others, however, can see only separate, unrelated
bits of information. You are fascinated by problems that puzzle, confound, or frustrate most people.
Its very likely that you demonstrate an ease with language. You effortlessly verbalize your thoughts.
You relish the opportunity to share your insights. You derive pleasure from actively participating in
conversations when group members propose ideas, seek solutions, or debate issues. Instinctively,
you may see solutions before other people know there is a problem. You might start formulating
answers before your teammates, coworkers, or classmates understand the question. Sometimes you
generate numerous ideas before sorting to the one that makes the most sense in a particular
situation. Driven by your talents, you can reconfigure factual information or data in ways that reveal
trends, raise issues, identify opportunities, or offer solutions. You bring an added dimension to
discussions. You make sense out of seemingly unrelated information. You are likely to generate
multiple action plans before you choose the best one. Because of your strengths, you long to know
more so you remain on the cutting edge of your field or areas of interest. Your inventive mind usually
generates more possibilities than you can handle or fund. Nonetheless, you are committed to
acquiring knowledge and/or skills. You study everything involved in a situation and conceive entirely
new ways of seeing or doing things. What you already know prompts you to ask questions and delve
even deeper into a subject or problem.
Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to
you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

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Responsibility
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Responsibility theme take psychological ownership of what
they say they will do. They are committed to stable values such as honesty and loyalty.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?
Driven by your talents, you often argue that people should be held to the highest moral standards.
You insist that those who break the law be required to accept the consequences of their deeds. You
have little sympathy for people who are caught in the act of taking things that do not belong to them.
Because of your strengths, you are consistent in your core values and predictable in your actions.
People are likely to know that you go to great lengths to do things right and to behave in an ethical
manner. Its very likely that you are a person upon whom others can depend. When you make a
promise, you keep it. You feel obligated to honor your commitments. You do things correctly,
accurately, and properly. By nature, you normally strive to do things right. Taking shortcuts strikes you
as unprincipled, thoughtless, and careless. You likely refuse to produce sloppy work or engage in
unethical practices. Instinctively, you leave no stone unturned that is, you do everything possible
to meet your obligations. You are thorough and devoted to doing what you have promised. As a
result, others regard you as reliable. Because you have established a reputation for fulfilling your
commitments, people naturally depend on you.
Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to
you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

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Belief
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Belief theme have certain core values that are unchanging.
Out of these values emerges a defined purpose for their life.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?
Chances are good that you labor for hours, days, or weeks when the money you earn allows you to
provide for your familys needs. Your work ethic permits you to give loved ones many of the things you
did or did not have as a child. Its very likely that you can sometimes place the needs of others ahead
of your own. By nature, you refuse to live a meaningless existence. You seek a vocation that allows
you to express your deepest values every day. Work or school provides you with the opportunity to
enrich and deepen the quality of your life. You really want to do what you love doing. Your job or
studies need to be much more than a means to an end that is, a paycheck or a diploma. Driven by
your talents, you sense your life has deep meaning. With remarkable vividness, you often imagine
where you will be, what you will be doing, and what you have the ability to accomplish in the coming
months, years, or decades. Your dreams of tomorrow are very alive in your mind today. You
intentionally strive to transform these possibilities into reality. Because of your strengths, you regard
the opportunity to understand everything you can about someone as a gift beyond price. Each insight
into a human being brings you great joy. You want to know people on an up-close and personal basis.
You probably refuse to think of anyone in terms of stereotypes. You rail against these oversimplified
categories or labels. You often argue they deprive all humanity of a persons unique talents,
knowledge, skills, and ideas.
Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to
you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

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Achiever
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work
hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?
Instinctively, you are industrious, diligent, and persistent. You naturally set difficult-to-reach goals.
These normally demand a great amount of your time. While your work ethic is evident, you question
whether the promotions, titles, opportunities, or status symbols you desire could exact too high a
price. Chances are good that you tend to be a very good adviser to many individuals. When offering
suggestions or asking questions, you probably are much more engaged, intense, and involved than
usual. By nature, you concentrate for extended periods of time. This is one reason why you ultimately
master skills and grasp concepts. Because of your strengths, you might expend more physical or
mental energy doing your job or pursuing your studies than some of your peers do. Perhaps you need
to make measurable progress toward one or two goals each day to feel successful as a human being.
Driven by your talents, you labor to create a future that bears little resemblance to your past. You
choose to be a forward-looking person rather than someone who holds on to what was and never will
be again.
Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to
you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

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Questions
1. How does this information help you better understand your unique talents?
2. How can you use this understanding to add value to your role?
3. How can you apply this knowledge to add value to your team, workgroup, department, or
division?
4. How will this understanding help you add value to your organization?
5. What will you do differently tomorrow as a result of this report?

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Section II: Application

Relator
Ideas for Action:
Find a workplace in which friendships are encouraged. You will not do well in an overly
formal organization. In job interviews, ask about work styles and company culture.
Deliberately learn as much as you can about the people you meet. You like knowing about
people, and other people like being known. By doing this, you will act as a catalyst for
trusting relationships.
Let it be known that you are more interested in the character and personality of others than
in their status or job title. This is one of your greatest talents and can serve as a model for
others.
Let your caring show. For example, find people in your company to mentor, help your
colleagues get to know each other better, or extend your relationships beyond the office.
No matter how busy you are, stay in contact with your friends. They are your fuel.
Be honest with your friends. True caring means helping the other person be successful
and fulfilled. Giving honest feedback or encouraging your friend to move out of a role in
which he or she is struggling is a compassionate act.
You probably prefer to be seen as a person, an equal, or a friend, rather than as a
function, a superior, or a title. Let people know that they can address you by your first
name, rather than formally.
You might tend to withhold the most engaging aspects of your personality until you have
sensed openness from another person. Remember, building relationships is not a one-way
street. Proactively put yourself out there. Others will quickly see you for the genuine
individual you are, and you will create many more opportunities to cultivate strong, longlasting connections.
Make time for family and close friends. You need to spend quality moments with those you
love in order to feed your Relator talents. Schedule activities that allow you to get even
closer to the people who keep you grounded and happy.
Make an effort to socialize with your colleagues and team members outside of work. It can
be as simple as lunch or coffee together. This will help you forge more connected
relationships at work, which in turn can facilitate more effective teamwork and cooperation.
Questions

1. Which of these action items speak to you? Highlight the actions that you are most likely to
take.
2. How will you commit to taking action? Write your own personalized action item that you will
take in the next 30 days.

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Strategic
Ideas for Action:
Take the time to fully reflect or muse about a goal that you want to achieve until the related
patterns and issues emerge for you. Remember that this musing time is essential to
strategic thinking.
You can see repercussions more clearly than others can. Take advantage of this ability by
planning your range of responses in detail. There is little point in knowing where events will
lead if you are not ready when you get there.
Find a group that you think does important work, and contribute your strategic thinking.
You can be a leader with your ideas.
Your strategic thinking will be necessary to keep a vivid vision from deteriorating into an
ordinary pipe dream. Fully consider all possible paths toward making the vision a reality.
Wise forethought can remove obstacles before they appear.
Make yourself known as a resource for consultation with those who are stumped by a
particular problem or hindered by a particular obstacle or barrier. By naturally seeing a way
when others are convinced there is no way, you will lead them to success.
You are likely to anticipate potential issues more easily than others. Though your
awareness of possible danger might be viewed as negativity by some, you must share
your insights if you are going to avoid these pitfalls. To prevent misperception of your
intent, point out not only the future obstacle, but also a way to prevent or overcome it.
Trust your insights, and use them to ensure the success of your efforts.
Help others understand that your strategic thinking is not an attempt to belittle their ideas,
but is instead a natural propensity to consider all the facets of a plan objectively. Rather
than being a naysayer, you are actually trying to examine ways to ensure that the goal is
accomplished, come what may. Your talents will allow you to consider others perspectives
while keeping your end goal in sight.
Trust your intuitive insights as often as possible. Even though you might not be able to
explain them rationally, your intuitions are created by a brain that instinctively anticipates
and projects. Have confidence in these perceptions.
Partner with someone with strong Activator talents. With this persons need for action and
your need for anticipation, you can forge a powerful partnership.
Make sure that you are involved in the front end of new initiatives or enterprises. Your
innovative yet procedural approach will be critical to the genesis of a new venture because
it will keep its creators from developing deadly tunnel vision.
Questions

1. Which of these action items speak to you? Highlight the actions that you are most likely to
take.
2. How will you commit to taking action? Write your own personalized action item that you will
take in the next 30 days.

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Responsibility
Ideas for Action:
Emphasize your sense of responsibility when job hunting. During interviews, describe your
desire to be held fully accountable for the success or failure of projects, your intense
dislike of unfinished work, and your need to make it right if a commitment is not met.
Keep volunteering for more responsibility than your experience seems to warrant. You
thrive on responsibility, and you can deal with it very effectively.
Align yourself with others who share your sense of responsibility. You will flourish when
working with people who share your determination to get things done.
Tell your manager that you work best when given the freedom to follow through on your
commitments that you dont need to check in during a project, just at the end. You can
be trusted to get it done.
Push yourself to say no. Because you are instinctively responsible, it might sometimes be
difficult to refuse opportunities. For this reason, you must be selective. Ask for more
responsibility in only the areas that matter most to you.
You naturally take ownership of every project you are involved in. Make sure that your
capacity to own does not keep you from sharing responsibility. Allow others the opportunity
to experience the challenges of ownership. In doing so, you will contribute to their growth
and development.
Learn to manage your Responsibility talents by considering whether you really are the
person who should be handling a particular issue. Defer to your existing responsibilities
and goals before undertaking additional burdens, as you may end up skimping on quality if
you have too many tasks or competing demands.
Partner with someone especially talented in Discipline or Focus. This person can help you
stay on track and prevent you from becoming overloaded.
Working with a like-minded, responsible colleague is satisfying for you. Be sure to clarify
expectations and boundaries so that each person can feel ownership for his or her
particular tasks without stepping on each others toes.
Responsible individuals like to know they have delivered on their commitments, so create
metrics and goals to gauge how effectively you meet your obligations. Also, make sure you
have explicit and concrete expectations so that there is no question regarding quality
outcomes and so that you can hit the mark as promised.
Questions

1. Which of these action items speak to you? Highlight the actions that you are most likely to
take.
2. How will you commit to taking action? Write your own personalized action item that you will
take in the next 30 days.

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Belief
Ideas for Action:
Clarify your values by thinking about one of your best days ever. How did your values play
into the satisfaction that you received on that day? How can you organize your life to
repeat that day as often as possible?
Actively seek roles that fit your values. In particular, think about joining organizations that
define their purpose by the contribution they make to society.
The meaning and purpose of your work will often provide direction for others. Remind
people why their work is important and how it makes a difference in their lives and in the
lives of others.
Your Belief talents allow you to talk to the hearts of people. Develop a purpose statement
and communicate it to your family, friends, and coworkers. Your powerful emotional appeal
can give them a motivating sense of contribution.
Create a gallery of letters and/or pictures of the people whose lives you have substantially
influenced. When you are feeling down or overwhelmed, remind yourself of your value by
looking at this gallery. It will energize you and revive your commitment to helping others.
Set aside time to ensure that you are balancing your work demands and your personal life.
Your devotion to your career should not come at the expense of your strong commitment
to your family.
Dont be afraid to give voice to your values. This will help others know who you are and
how to relate to you.
Actively cultivate friends who share your basic values. Consider your best friend. Does this
person share your value system?
Partner with someone who has strong Futuristic talents. This person can energize you by
painting a vivid picture of the direction in which your values will lead.
Accept that the values of other people might differ from your own. Express your beliefs
without being judgmental.
Questions

1. Which of these action items speak to you? Highlight the actions that you are most likely to
take.
2. How will you commit to taking action? Write your own personalized action item that you will
take in the next 30 days.

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Achiever
Ideas for Action:
Select jobs that allow you to have the leeway to work as hard as you want and in which
you are encouraged to measure your own productivity. You will feel challenged and alive
in these environments.
As an achiever, you relish the feeling of being busy, yet you also need to know when you
are done. Attach timelines and measurement to goals so that effort leads to defined
progress and tangible outcomes.
Remember to build celebration and recognition into your life. Achievers tend to move on to
the next challenge without acknowledging their successes. Counter this impulse by
creating regular opportunities to enjoy your progress and accomplishments.
Your drive for action might cause you to find meetings a bit boring. If thats the case,
appeal to your Achiever talents by learning the objectives of each meeting ahead of time
and by taking notes about progress toward those objectives during the meeting. You can
help ensure that meetings are productive and efficient.
Continue your education by attaining certifications in your area or specialty in addition to
attending conferences and other programs. This will give you even more goals to achieve
and will push your existing boundaries of accomplishment.
You do not require much motivation from others. Take advantage of your self-motivation
by setting challenging goals. Set a more demanding goal every time you finish a project.
Partner with other hard workers. Share your goals with them so they can help you to get
more done.
Count personal achievements in your scoring system. This will help you direct your
Achiever talents toward family and friends as well as toward work.
More work excites you. The prospect of what lies ahead is infinitely more motivating than
what has been completed. Launch initiatives and new projects. Your seemingly endless
reserve of energy will create enthusiasm and momentum.
Make sure that in your eagerness to do more at work, you do not skimp on quality. Create
measurable outcome standards to guarantee that increased productivity is matched by
enhanced quality.
Questions

1. Which of these action items speak to you? Highlight the actions that you are most likely to
take.
2. How will you commit to taking action? Write your own personalized action item that you will
take in the next 30 days.

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Section III: Achievement

Look for signs of achievement as you read these real quotes from people who share your top five
themes.

Relator sounds like this:

Gavin T., flight attendant: I have many wonderful acquaintances, but as for true friends that I hold
dear, not very many. And Im real okay with that. My best times are spent with the people Im tightest
with, like my family. We are a very tight-knit Irish Catholic family, and we get together every chance
we can. Its a large family I have five brothers and sisters and ten nieces and nephews but we
all get together about once a month and yuk it up. Im the catalyst. When Im back in Chicago, even if
there is no birthday or anniversary or whatever, I become the excuse for getting together and hanging
out for three or four days. We really enjoy one anothers company.
Tony D., pilot: I used to fly in the Marines, and, boy, you had better be comfortable with the word
friend in the Marines. You had better feel good about trusting someone else. I cant tell you how
many times I put my life in someone elses hands. I was flying off my friends wing, and Id be dead if
he couldnt get me back safely.
Jamie T., entrepreneur: Im definitely selective about my relationships. When I first meet people, I
dont want to give them very much of my time. I dont know them; they dont know me so lets just
be pleasant and leave it at that. But if circumstances make it so that we get to know each other better,
it seems like a threshold is reached where I suddenly start wanting to invest more. Ill share more of
myself, put myself out for them, do things for them that will bring us a little closer, and show that I
care. Its funny because I am not looking for any more friends in my life. I have enough. And yet with
each new person I meet, as soon as that threshold is reached, I feel compelled to go deeper and
deeper. Now I have ten people working for me, and I would call each of them my very good friend.

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Strategic sounds like this:

Liam C., manufacturing plant manager: It seems as if I can always see the consequences before
anyone else can. I have to say to people, Lift up your eyes; look down the road a ways. Lets talk
about where we are going to be next year so that when we get to this time next year, we dont have
the same problems. It seems obvious to me, but some people are just too focused on this months
numbers, and everything is driven by that.
Vivian T., television producer: I used to love logic problems when I was a kid you know, the ones
where if A implies B, and B equals C, does A equal C? Still today, I am always playing out
repercussions, seeing where things lead. I think it makes me a great interviewer. I know that nothing
is an accident; every sign, every word, every tone of voice has significance. So I watch for these clues
and play them out in my head, see where they lead, and then plan my questions to take advantage of
what I have seen in my head.
Simon T., human resources executive: We really needed to take the union on at some stage, and I
saw an opportunity a very good issue to take them on. I could see that they were going in a
direction that would lead them into all kinds of trouble if they continued following it. Lo and behold,
they did continue following it, and when they arrived, there I was, ready and waiting. I suppose it just
comes naturally to me to predict what someone else is going to do. And then when that person reacts,
I can respond immediately because I have sat down and said, Okay, if they do this, well do this. If
they do that, then well do this other thing. Its like when you tack in a sailboat. You head in one
direction, but you jinx one way, then another, planning and reacting, planning and reacting.

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Responsibility sounds like this:

Nigel T., sales executive: I used to think that there was a piece of metal in my hand and a magnet on
the ceiling. I would just volunteer for everything. I have had to learn how to manage that because not
only would I end up with too much on my plate, but I would also wind up thinking that everything was
my fault. I realize now that I cant be responsible for everything in the world thats Gods job.
Kelly G., operations manager: The country manager in Sweden called me in November and said,
Kelly, could you please not ship my inventory until January 1. I said, Sure. Sounds like a good plan.
I told my people about the plan and thought I had all the bases covered. On December 31, however,
when I was checking my messages while on a ski slope, making sure everything was hunky-dory, I
saw that his order had already been shipped and invoiced. I had to call immediately and tell him what
happened. Hes a nice man, so he didnt use any four-letter words, but he was very angry and very
disappointed. I felt terrible. An apology wasnt enough. I needed to fix it. I called our controller from the
chalet, and that afternoon we figured out a way to put the value of his inventory back on our books
and clean it off his. It took most of the weekend, but it was the right thing to do.
Harry B., outplacement consultant: I was just a young bank manager in one of the branches when the
president of the company decided that he wanted to foreclose on a property. I said, Thats fine, but
we have a responsibility to give the people full value for their property. He didnt see it that way. He
wanted to sell the property to a friend of his for what was owed, and he said my problem was that I
couldnt separate my business ethics from my personal ethics. I told him that was correct. I couldnt
because I didnt believe and still dont believe that you can have two standards. So I quit the firm
and went back to earning five dollars an hour working for the forestry service picking up trash. Since
my wife and I were trying to support our two kids and make ends meet, it was a hard decision for me
to make. But looking back, on one level, it really wasnt hard at all. I simply couldnt function in an
organization with those kinds of ethics.

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Belief sounds like this:

Michael K., salesperson: The vast majority of my nonworking time goes to my family and to the things
we do in the community. I was on the countywide Boy Scouts board of directors. And when I was a
Boy Scout, I was pack leader. When I was an Explorer, I was junior assistant leader for the Boy
Scouts. I just like being with kids. I believe thats where the future is. And I think you can do a whole
lot worse with your time than investing it in the future.
Lara M., college president: My values are why I work so hard every day at my job. I put hours and
hours into this job, and I dont even care what I get paid. I just found out that I am the lowest paid
college president in my state, and I dont even care. I mean, I dont do this for the money.
Tracy D., airline executive: If you are not doing something important, why bother? Getting up every
day and working on ways to make flying safer seems important to me, purposeful. If I didnt find this
purpose in my job, I dont know if I could work through all the challenges and frustrations that get in
my way. I think I would get demoralized.

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Achiever sounds like this:

Melanie K., ER nurse: I have to rack up points every day to feel successful. Today Ive been here
only half an hour, but Ive probably racked up thirty points already. I ordered equipment for the ER, I
had equipment repaired, I had a meeting with my charge nurse, and I brainstormed with my secretary
about improving our computerized logbook. So on my list of ninety things, I have thirty done already.
Im feeling pretty good about myself right now.
Ted S., salesperson: Last year I was salesperson of the year out of my companys three hundred
salespeople. It felt good for a day, but sure enough, later that week, it was as if it never happened. I
was back at zero again. Sometimes I wish I wasnt an achiever because it can lead me away from a
balanced life and toward obsession. I used to think I could change myself, but now I know I am just
wired this way. This theme is truly a double-edged sword. It helps me achieve my goals, but on the
other hand, I wish I could just turn it off and on at will. But, hey, I cant. I can manage it and avoid work
obsession by focusing on achieving in all parts of my life, not just work.
Sara L., writer: This theme is a weird one. First, its good because you live in pursuit of the perpetual
challenge. But in the second place, you never feel as though youve reached your goal. It can keep
you running uphill at seventy miles an hour for your whole life. You never rest because theres always
more to do. But, on balance, I think I would rather have it than not. I call it my divine restlessness,
and if it makes me feel as if I owe the present everything I have, then so be it. I can live with that.

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Questions
1. Talk to friends or coworkers to hear how they have used their talents to achieve.

2. How will you use your talents to achieve?

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