Catholic Edition. Discover your God given talents and inspire your community.

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Summary: Are You On the Right Track?
Comment: Are you on the right track? Do you wonder about why you love doing certain things and dislike others? Do you wonder why you react in certain ways? Are your looking for a better way to make right decisions, enjoy peace of mind, and live in harmony with others. This may be the book for you.

The Catholic edition of "Living Your Strengths" is an extension of "strengths" research begun more than forty years ago by Dr. Donald Clifton of the Gallup Organization. Clifton researched the natural patterns of thought, feeling, and action of two million people in more than 25 countries. The result is the Clifton StrengthsFinder, a tool that reveals a person's top five themes of talent - one's Signature Themes.

The Signature Themes are unique to the individual. According to Gallup, the chance of finding someone with your Signature Themes, in the same order, is 1 in 33 million and the chance of finding someone with your top ten themes of talent is 1 in 3 trillion. Finding one's themes and understanding their uniqueness should help one to gain a better appreciation of how special they are and how special the people around them are - deeper self-respect, deeper mutual respect.

The book is organized around the use of the StrengthsFinder (provided with the purchase of the book) to assess and affirm our talents, and how to use our talents for growth and service. There are thirty four identified talents ranging from achiever, maximizer, ideation, individualization, and significance to woo.

This edition of "Living Your Strengths" is aimed at Catholic parishes and parishioners and incorporates language familiar to Catholic audiences. The authors believe it will unravel the adventure we have been on since we were born - the adventure God gave us - and will help us realize our potential as God intended.

Participants have three reactions to taking the StrengthsFinder:
* Amazement at its accuracy
* Genuine surprise - "perceived weaknesses are really valuable talents"
* Gratitude

Most of us generally are not harnessing the power of our innate gifts. We are not fulfilling God's purpose...and we do not even know it! "Living Your Strengths" provides a tool so we can assess these God-given talents and harness them in the betterment of ourselves, our families, and the various communities we participate in.

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