Our homes are our castles. We protect the insides from the outside and rightly so. But how often do we take the time to keep growing the inside? How often do we seek to use our strengths to help make the home happier, more fun, and overall better? Committing to using your own personal best skills and talents can make a world of difference and I want you to realize this soon.
A happy home is a lovely home!
I took a survey of several hundred people over the topic of professional and personal aptitudes related to several different topics. The results are at the same time sobering, challenging, and enlightening. Below is one of the questions I asked them and is followed by the unfiltered results.
Question:
How could using your personal strengths at home help you be more happy? Why?
Answers:
- I could use my strengths in time management. By doing this, I would be managing my time at home better and therefore my entire life would be more efficient. I would have more time to do other things.
- I could use them to do positive things around the home. I could use my personal skills to decorate and cook. Being active keeps me happy.
- I could use my attention to detail to help with keeping a cleaner house. I’ve been lazy for various reasons and haven’t been maintaining tidiness for a while. I should get more motivated to clean up more and better.
- Using your personal strengths at home could be as simple as helping around the house in some way, shape or form that contributes to a pleasant atmosphere in the home. If you do so, the atmosphere in the house will change eventually, making it a happier place to be in and making you happier in turn.
- Well, my biggest strength at home is my ability to relax. If I could apply my relaxation techniques all the time, I’d be extremely happy.
- Having a positive and optimistic attitude in the home can change the energy of the home. You can walk into a room and see a mess that one might see as daunting but with your optimism you can help encourage that person and see that it is manageable. Your attitude can be contagious just like listening to music that inspires makes your attitude change. Bringing that into your home helps everyone win. Just like a person with a black cloud over their head walking into a room can bring everyone down.
- I am very good at being self-disciplined about aspects of my life. If I could discipline myself to enjoy maybe doing all the chores around my house or discipline myself into setting up a schedule where I could do them after work.
- They could because you will be able to get along with everyone better. This is because the people you live with will get to clearly see you at your best, and you will be doing well.
- It would allow me to be more positive as focusing on my strengths at home would make me feel better about myself. Having the ability to do well will boost my confidence and make me realize that I am great at something. Being able to build up confidence is great at boosting happiness. Being bad at something would lead to frustration and annoyance, but being successful will lead to satisfaction and a feeling of accomplishment, which are both important to being more happy.
- I could use them to be more organized and therefore spend more time with my family. I plan out a lot of my life and the things I do in it, and if I applied that to my home life I could get my household to run more efficiently. I also could use it to teach my family better skills that would in turn help me keep up on household duties.
- Using personal strengths at home can help one boost their self-esteem and thus increase their happiness. I like learning and I’m a good student, so I am always taking online courses and that makes me happy and gives me a sense of accomplishment.
- I could use my personal strengths at home to help me be happy by playing music. Another way I could use my personal strengths for this is cleaning up the house. One more way I could use my personal strengths to make me happier at home is I could make paintings around my house.
- Using personal strengths at home can make you happier if they are used to improve a sour mood. Assuming the reason for not being happy is external; boosting your own self-esteem by relying your inner strengths will likely propel you to a level of moderate to extreme contentment and happiness than if you just moped around and didn’t try anything to bring a bit of joy into your life.
- My personal strengths are mostly an attention to detail and a conscientious attitude. This can help me be happier by making sure things are done neatly, properly, and on time. When things are done correctly, you do not need to redo things, and things do not fall apart as easily on you in the future.
- I am really good at organizing of any kind. However, most of this skill gets put on the wayside at home because of time and kids. If I made the time to use the skills I have in organizing, I would be SO MUCH happier at home! It is just something that sits on my to-do list and never gets done. Being able to cross it off my to-do list would definitely be the first reason it would make me happy. If my home was organized the way that the rest of my life is, my brain would feel less cluttered, I would be able to enjoy my family more while at home, and everyone would ALWAYS be able to find things in our home!
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Can you identify with or find a nugget of awesome from these heart-felt responses? Have a story or piece of advice of your own? Please share with us in the comments below. Thanks for reading!
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