StrengthsQuest Assessment

Here are my results from the StrengthsQuest Assessment. I have to say that I agree with most of what is said about me..especially the discipline and how I need everything in order and I need to know ahead of time when something is going to happen. I also agreed with the fact that I am always talking and looking towards the future. I try not to dwell on the past and just look towards the future. My motto is : "Tomorrow is a new day"

Discipline

Your world needs to be predictable. It needs to be ordered and planned. So you instinctively impose

structure on your world. You set up routines. You focus on timelines and deadlines. You break longterm

projects into a series of specific short-term plans, and you work through each plan diligently. You

are not necessarily neat and clean, but you do need precision. Faced with the inherent messiness of

life, you want to feel in control. The routines, the timelines, the structure, all of these help create this

feeling of control. Lacking this theme of Discipline, others may sometimes resent your need for order,

but there need not be conflict. You must understand that not everyone feels your urge for

predictability; they have other ways of getting things done. Likewise, you can help them understand

and even appreciate your need for structure. Your dislike of surprises, your impatience with errors,

your routines, and your detail orientation don’t need to be misinterpreted as controlling behaviors that

box people in. Rather, these behaviors can be understood as your instinctive method for maintaining

your progress and your productivity in the face of life’s many distractions.

Relator

Relator describes your attitude toward your relationships. In simple terms, the Relator theme pulls you

toward people you already know. You do not necessarily shy away from meeting new people—in fact,

you may have other themes that cause you to enjoy the thrill of turning strangers into friends—but you

do derive a great deal of pleasure and strength from being around your close friends. You are

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comfortable with intimacy. Once the initial connection has been made, you deliberately encourage a

deepening of the relationship. You want to understand their feelings, their goals, their fears, and their

dreams; and you want them to understand yours. You know that this kind of closeness implies a

certain amount of risk—you might be taken advantage of—but you are willing to accept that risk. For

you a relationship has value only if it is genuine. And the only way to know that is to entrust yourself to

the other person. The more you share with each other, the more you risk together. The more you risk

together, the more each of you proves your caring is genuine. These are your steps toward real

friendship, and you take them willingly.

Futuristic

“Wouldn’t it be great if . . .” You are the kind of person who loves to peer over the horizon. The future

fascinates you. As if it were projected on the wall, you see in detail what the future might hold, and

this detailed picture keeps pulling you forward, into tomorrow. While the exact content of the picture

will depend on your other strengths and interests—a better product, a better team, a better life, or a

better world—it will always be inspirational to you. You are a dreamer who sees visions of what could

be and who cherishes those visions. When the present proves too frustrating and the people around

you too pragmatic, you conjure up your visions of the future and they energize you. They can energize

others, too. In fact, very often people look to you to describe your visions of the future. They want a

picture that can raise their sights and thereby their spirits. You can paint it for them. Practice. Choose

your words carefully. Make the picture as vivid as possible. People will want to latch on to the hope

you bring.

Consistency

Balance is important to you. You are keenly aware of the need to treat people the same, no matter

what their station in life, so you do not want to see the scales tipped too far in any one person’s favor.

In your view this leads to selfishness and individualism. It leads to a world where some people gain an

unfair advantage because of their connections or their background or their greasing of the wheels.

This is truly offensive to you. You see yourself as a guardian against it. In direct contrast to this world

of special favors, you believe that people function best in a consistent environment where the rules

are clear and are applied to everyone equally. This is an environment where people know what is

expected. It is predictable and evenhanded. It is fair. Here each person has an even chance to show

his or her worth.

Adaptability

You live in the moment. You don’t see the future as a fixed destination. Instead, you see it as a place

that you create out of the choices that you make right now. And so you discover your future one

choice at a time. This doesn’t mean that you don’t have plans. You probably do. But this theme of

Adaptability does enable you to respond willingly to the demands of the moment even if they pull you

away from your plans. Unlike some, you don’t resent sudden requests or unforeseen detours. You

expect them. They are inevitable. Indeed, on some level you actually look forward to them. You are, at

heart, a very flexible person who can stay productive when the demands of work are pulling you in

many different directions at once.