Those who express an appreciation of beauty & excellence notice and appreciate beauty, excellence and/or skilled performance in all domains of life, from nature to art to mathematics to science to everyday experience.

As a character strength, leadership refers to the tendency to organise and encourage a group to get things done while maintaining good relations within the group…

Zest means approaching a situation, or life in general, with excitement and energy, not approaching tasks or activities halfway or half-heartedly. 

People who are high in zest are excited to get up in the morning, and they live their lives like an adventure. Zest is a dynamic strength that is directly related to physical and psychological wellness. 

This strength has the strongest ties to overall life satisfaction and a life of engagement.

Those high in self-regulation have a good level of confidence in their belief that they can be effective in what they pursue and are likely to achieve their goals. They are admired for their ability to control their reactions to disappointment and insecurities…

There are two essential components to creativity – originality and adaptiveness. A creative individual generates ideas or behaviours that are novel or unusual and these make a positive contribution to the individual’s life or the lives of others in a group…

Simply put, kindness is being nice to others. 

Kindness is being generous with others, giving your time, money, and talent to support those who are in need. 

Kindness is being compassionate, which means to really be there for someone, listening intently to their suffering or just sitting with them and silently supporting them. Such compassion involves a deep concern for the welfare of others…

Perspective is the ability to see the bigger picture in life. Perspective is about being able to see the forest as well as the trees, to avoid getting wrapped up in the small details when there are bigger issues to consider… 

Blogs and StoriesHope is one of the five character strengths that comprise the Virtue of Transcendence.  Transcendence describes strengths that help you connect to the larger universe and provide meaning. What is hope? The character strength of hope has to do with...