Take the one week strengths challenge
花一个星期时间做优势挑战
Post published by Michelle McQuaid on Jun 29, 2015 in From Functioning to Flourishing
你有机会在每天的工作中做自己最擅长的事情吗？花几分钟时间来思考一下吧。
Do you have the chance to do what you do best each day? Not just now and again. Not even just most days. But each and every day. Do you have the chance to do what you do best?
每天你有机会做最拿手的事吗？不是偶尔，甚至不是每天的大部分时间，而是每一天。你有机会做你最擅长的工作吗？
Until, I discovered that it took just 11 minutes of doing what I do best each day—of using my strengths—to finally create the career and life I longed for.
直到我发现，每天做自己最擅长的事情只需要花费11分钟——运用自己的优势——最终就可以创造自己渴望的事业和生活。
I spent the first 30 seconds cueing up my habit by anchoring it to the daily act of turning on my computer.
打开电脑，首先花30秒将我的习惯编辑到日常行为中
Then for the next 10 minutes I developed my strength of curiosity by reading one new positive psychology discovery about how to enable human flourishing and seeing if I could apply this to my team.
To reward myself I’d use the last 30 seconds to note down what I learnt and each Friday I used to package these discoveries up and send them off in an email to my boss.
Until nine months—and 36 emails—later my boss called me into his office and said: “Clearly we’re not tapping into your potential. Would you like to teach these positive psychology techniques across our business?”
直到九个月之后，也就是36封邮件之后我被老板叫进他的办公室，他说：“显然，我们没有挖掘到你的潜力。你愿意在我们公司将这些积极心理学教给大家吗？”
这样，我梦想中的工作就被创造出来了
Here’s what I want you to remember, when you choose to do what you do best each day, even for just 11 minutes, others have the chance to see the potential in you.
这里我想让你记住的是，当你选择每天做你最擅长的工作时，即使是11分钟，别人也有机会看到你的潜能。
