The more you understand about yourself and the people around you, the easier it will be to help them rejuvenate and maintain a healthy and lower stress life. Here are two more tools that you can add to your rejuvenate list:
(1) Strengths – These are the identified things that you are best at. When you work within your strengths and others support you in those strengths it helps you be the best that you can be. You can take an online strengths assessment that will provide you with this information and analysis. It can really help you with knowing where you might want to focus your energy in work and outside of work.
StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup’s Now, Discover Your Strengths — Marcus Buckingham
It is important that when you purchase this book you get a new (not used) copy. Each book includes a one-time use code that you enter on the web site to take the personalized strengths indicator.
(2) Love Languages
Another tool that you can add to your rejuvenate list is a listing of your love languages. To some people, a “love language” might sound all mushy and touchy feely, but it’s an important tool toward a happier life. Your love language is how you like to be loved. People express and receive love in different ways. Often we express love to others in the way that we like to be loved. Unfortunately, we might not be speaking a language that the other person understand. Dr. Gary Chapman identifies the five languages of love as: quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, and physical touch.
Once you’ve identified how you and the people close to you like to be loved, you should post that for us as a reminder on our rejuvenate list so that we are more likely to remember and help to build them up by doing something about it.
Here are several of the “love language” books to help you understand and make use of these ideas:
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