On My Desk – Understanding Our Strengths
Kids have many POSITIVE attributes! Focusing on their strengths can help them achieve great things. Are they creative, passionate about a sport or music, enjoy working with numbers, an avid reader, great with animals, or a people person with strong empathy skills? Most likely, they have many strengths. When we’re focusing on their strengths, without overfocusing on them, it can help them in so many ways.
I Know My Strengths
It’s important for adults too! Understanding my own strengths is helpful for accomplishing my writing goals. Many of these goals center around creative children’s projects!
I have a lot of them going on all at once – but many are related to children’s books, videos, or activities that I do with my grandkids. Planning, organizing, and researching are some of the strengths that move me in a POSITIVE direction with my writing.
Upcoming Picture Books Focus on Strengths
I’m creating POSITIVE stories that focus on a child’s strengths, even when they have certain challenges. Each of the upcoming children’s picture books in the Kid’s Kindness Series have a character with a neurodiverse challenge. But instead of getting them down, they use their strengths to guide them along.
Are you focusing on their strengths?
#kidskindnessseries
Fun Fact About Me – What? I was a Coach?
Coaching T-Ball and leading 4-6 years olds to their own individual victories on the field was great fun! But for a few years, I also co-coached a softball team of pre-teen and teenage girls. Having never coached softball before, but loving the game as a team player and spectator, I had a blast with the team! Mostly, I was just a parent volunteering to coach, along with another mom who loved softball. The team didn’t have a coach, but we both stepped up when no one else could.
Coaching for Coaches
Taking our role seriously, we signed up for a few coaching courses. It helped! Listening to the older girls on the team was successful too, as they had been coached by more experienced coaches in the past. We learned to focus on the girls’ strengths and worked on the things that challenged us the most as a team. Focusing on their strengths was key!
More than Just Winning
It worked! While, we had a rocky start, our first season ended well. The girls (and the coaches!) improved and won many games. We learned many lessons in teamwork too.
Many years later, I’m able to help our grandkids with softball (and baseball) skills when we play in the yard. And guess what? We focus on their strengths. Hurray!
#wishingyouhealthandwellness
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