Thomas Edison, whose inventions changed peoples’ lives for the better, said: “If you want something you’ve never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.” 30 Days of Character Strengths is a guided practice to help you shift into new possibilities in your work, relationships, health, and virtually every dimension of your life.
Character strengths are human traits that cultivate goodness and excellence. Being grounded in character strengths elevates your capacity to express who you are and what you do when at your very best. Day by day, you’ll observe your strengths in action and apply them in precise ways to boost achievement, strengthen relationships, and rise up to challenges.
This book is for everyone: the parent seeking to create a happy home, the new manager or leader bringing together her team, and the college student finding his way in the world. If you’re new to character strengths, it will help you develop a meaningful awareness of your strengths and engage them optimally. If you’re a seasoned strengths practitioner, it offers practices you may not have explored, like creating a strength-based habit or taking a Mindful Pause to shift into your strengths when you need a boost in energy.
If you’re a leader, manager, coach, consultant, therapist, teacher, parent, grandparent, or someone passionate about bringing out the best in others, this book offers 1) an approach to introducing character strengths work and 2) activities that apply a lens of strengths to navigating challenges, reaching for dreams, and walking through daily life.
Jane Anderson, your guide who accompanies you every step of the way, weaves together inspiring stories and examples with research distilled from positive psychology, the scientific study of human flourishing. Discover how your strengths can become pathways to living more authentically, cultivating excellence, and shifting into new possibilities!
Jane Anderson, President of Strength Based Living LLC is dedicated to harnessing what's best in individuals and teams. She completed over forty-five consecutive 30-day practices in her own quest for excellence and enjoys teaching others how to craft their work and lives around their strengths.
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“With just the right mix of theory and practice, Jane Anderson has put together an accessible and rigorous strength-based guideline to both success and happiness. Day by day, this book will help you ignite what’s best within you, your work and relationships.”
~ Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD, Bestselling author of Happier and The Joy of Leadership, and founder of the Happiness Studies Academy
“To get and to give the most in your life, keep close at hand 30 Days of Character Strengths. It presents important breakthrough discoveries in positive psychology at a much needed time, and in a well articulated, practical manner. Jane Anderson has given us a roadmap for developing new strength- based habits to improve our lives. Don’t just read it…USE it!”
~ Donna Mayerson, PhD, Advisor for Applied Practice at the global non-profit VIA Institute on Character
“Ready for transformation? Give yourself the gift of a 30-day strengths practice in Jane Anderson’s book…Jane is a gentle and thorough guide who unlike most practitioners and scholars in positive psychology, digs wide and deep into the character strengths work, uncovering all the nooks and crannies of character strengths practices.
"No longer can there be an excuse to not work with your strengths! As with meditation practices, people are quick to see the benefit of character strengths practices but slow to establish a daily practice routine. This book fills that gap. Follow Jane’s lead and your strengths practice will be soaring by the end of the month!”
~ Ryan M. Niemiec, PsyD, Author of Character Strengths Interventions: A Field Guide for Practitioners and Mindfulness and Character Strengths; Education Director at the VIA Institute on Character
“30 Days of Character Strengths is an eminently practical book...to help us explore our lives through a lens of strengths...Jane...distills research findings to help us see how our goals, relationships and all sorts of situations in everyday life can benefit from a strengths perspective..."
~ Margarita Tarragona, PhD, author of Positive Identities: Positive Psychology and Narrative Practices
