Category: December 2022

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VIA character strengths

I recently came across a body of work called VIA Survey of Character Strengths. I quite like the 24 virtues – so much that I worked on a series of designs about them.

As we close out 2022, we may fill our plate with new plans and goals for the new year. It’s a really good thing to greet 2023 with new possibilities.

Hope does lift the human spirit. Good stuff is created when we let our hearts and minds soar high and far.

Tragically, we can become entangled in messes and thoughts that do not help us produce the noblest and highest good.

Do yourself a favor. Let your mind rest and dwell on good stuff.

Here’s the complete set of character strengths for you to consider.

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Today and in the year ahead, endeavor to live more.  

Get in touch with your character strengths.  

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Once Upon a Time

By Angela Oltmanns

I have been excavating.

It all started during the pandemic year of 2020. As we all transitioned to do almost everything online, I decided to go backwards and look at boxes of writing done in the early 2000s.

My children were not born yet. Today they are grown. In fact, I just found out they both got speeding tickets. Another life lesson.

Lessons it seems never end as long as we are living.

Before I became a parent, I had a tremendous compulsion to record and make sense of my life. So even though I wasn’t even 30 back then, I decided to write a memoir and called it, “Thus Far”.

Today many people are writing their stories. Even brands are excavating and digging deeper to find out what their story is. 

Pourquoi?

Writing one’s personal life story is a wonderful way to get clear.

Clear about what?

Life purpose.

Life meaning.

Life direction.

Life passion.

If you are a young person, this is a wonderful time to get clear. If you are an older adult, it’s not too late to get clear. If you are a brand, it’s essential to get clear.

We all want purpose, meaning, direction and passion.

Our current zeitgeist welcomes clarity on them. I reckon many who join my tribe actually hunger for it.

So welcome.

Thanks for dropping in.

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