My character strengths

Hi guys and welcome back to another blog post for this year. I'm sorry that I haven't been posting that much. I will try ad keep up on blogging. Today I am going to be talking about my top 5 strengths and what they mean. I have 24 of these strengths in total but will only be sharing 5 of them. We did a survey about ourselves and in the end, we got to see what our strengths were - in order.
Here are my top 5 strengths -

1. Appreciation of beauty - You're good at finding beauty in the world and people around you. If somethings not beautiful, you appreciate other qualities and see beauty anyway.
2. Creativity - You're inspired by other people's ideas but like coming up with your own too. You're good at thinking outside the box and not scared to experiment and try new things.
3. Self-regulation - You've got great self-control. If you decide to stick to something, you're able to follow through, and this helps you to do well and reach your goals.
4. Gratitude - You appreciate the things everyone else thinks are normal, like food and family. This is a great strength to have, as most people have to practice being grateful.
5. Love of learning - You're super into learning new things. Even if you're not the best at something you're keen to know more. This is similar to being curious.

Did I expect this? Why - Why not
No, not really. I thought that my first one was going to be either creativity or zest. I was really happy with my results tho. They do relate to me in some ways. I didn't expect to have self-regulation though because I don't always like to stick to things if I cant get it or follow through with it.

An example of a time when I have shown these strengths are...

1. Appreciation of beauty - When me and my Taua/Grandma went down a street full of beautiful autumn trees and the white snowy mountains in front of us miles away but was surrounded by houses and factories. I still tried to find the beauty in the scene just to imagine what it would look like without the houses and factories.
2. Creativity - When somebody was on T.V making art. It really inspired me to try and do one of my own one day when I had all of the art supplies ready to see if I could maybe re-create or make a similar one like the one that was T.V.
3. Self-regulation - I can't think of when I have shown self-regulation.
4. Gratitude - I don't understand what this one means and even if I did I wouldn't remember when I did.
5. Love of learning - At school when we were learning about the history of Aotearoa. I was really into this and was really excited to read thebooks that we were assigned and to learn more about our history and where we came from and what we went through. 

Why are these strengths important to have?

I think these strengths are important to have because it makes us a better person and lets us know what we are good at. Also because you get to learn more and more about yourself and how you use these in modern-day life like now and in the future and maybe when you used these in the past.

I hope you enjoyed this very long blog post. Bye.