The great artist Michelangelo said, "Every block of stone has a statue inside, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." We are each the sculptor of our own lives. Are you focusing on your strengths and your positive qualities? Are you focusing on strengths in others as well? Or are you more concerned with faults or misgivings? Are you using your gifts in your daily life? Your strengths are the beautiful sculpture, and the other stuff is the debris that's being carved and chipped away.
Modern psychology has created an assessment called the VIA Test of Character Strengths which outlined 24 positive character qualities we each may have. However, even through history people have known about such things. Christian theology gave us the Cardinal Virtues, Buddhism gave us the Four Virtues which are Metta (loving-kindness), compassion, empathy, and equanimity. These are very similar to ones in the VIA assessment. If you are not focusing on strengths you are not making the most of your God-given gifts, for you, your kids, or those you interact with, or care about. Ask yourself today, are you chipping away to find your masterpiece?
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