{"id":9762,"date":"2025-11-28T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/examples-of-personal-strengths\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:07:23","slug":"examples-of-personal-strengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/examples-of-personal-strengths\/","title":{"rendered":"Examples of Personal Strengths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me tell you a secret: I almost failed my first PTA volunteer gig because I showed up thinking my only strength was making halfway decent boxed brownies (thanks, Betty Crocker). Cut to me three years later \u2013 homeschooling two kids through a pandemic, rebuilding our porch after a YouTube tutorial spiral, and mediating debates about Minecraft like a UN negotiator. Turns out? We\u2019re all walking Swiss Army knives of strengths \u2013 we just don\u2019t realize it until life starts throwing curveballs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s what my chaotic coffee-stained journey taught me about spotting strengths:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That time I organized a neighborhood food drive during the 2020 toilet paper apocalypse? Turns out \u201cwinging it\u201d had a fancy cousin called <strong>adaptability<\/strong>. My husband still laughs about the night I used a yoga strap to secure a Ikea shelf to our minivan (don\u2019t ask), but hey \u2013 <strong>creative problem-solving<\/strong> looks different in sweatpants at 11PM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rookie mistake I made:<\/strong> Thinking strengths had to be \u201cimpressive.\u201d My \u201c<strong>patience<\/strong>\u201d strength originally felt like a cop-out until I survived teaching my 7-year-old to ride a bike. Ever counted to 137 in Spanish while someone screams \u201cNEVER AGAIN\u201d through Spiderman bandaids? That\u2019s Olympic-level composure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unexpected goldmine:<\/strong> Ask your most brutally honest friend. My college buddy once said, \u201cYou\u2019re like a human Roomba \u2013 you just keep vacuuming up problems until they disappear.\u201d Turns out \u201c<strong>tenacity<\/strong>\u201d was my superpower all along. Who knew?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weird trick that worked:<\/strong> Track compliments that make you cringe. When my sister said, \u201cI wish I could blurt out ideas without caring who hates them,\u201d I realized my \u201c<strong>candor<\/strong>\u201d (which I\u2019d labeled \u201cfoot-in-mouth disease\u201d) was actually valuable at work meetings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>American life test kitchen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That <strong>resourcefulness<\/strong> you use combining Target coupons? Strength.<\/li>\n<li>Calming your toddler mid-meltdown with impromptu Moana reenactments? <strong>Emotional intelligence<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Memorizing every Starbucks order in your carpool? <strong>Detail-oriented teamwork<\/strong> (with a side of caffeine addiction).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The clincher:<\/strong> Your \u201cweaknesses\u201d are often strengths in ugly Christmas sweaters. My \u201cnosy\u201d neighborhood group chat habit? Became <strong>community-building<\/strong> when I connected a laid-off neighbor with a job lead. My \u201coverthinking\u201d? Saved our camping trip when I packed 17 ways to start a fire during that surprise Arizona monsoon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Try this tonight:<\/strong> Grab a Dunkin\u2019 napkin and jot down three times you\u2026<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Felt weirdly in your element (Even if it was just nailing parallel parking while tourists honked)<\/li>\n<li>Got stubborn about fixing something (Including that time you spent 4 hours fixing the WiFi instead of calling Spectrum)<\/li>\n<li>Made someone unexpectedly say \u201cHow\u2019d you do that?!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Strengths aren\u2019t what you\u2019re good at \u2013 they\u2019re what make you forget to check your phone. Mine apparently involve assembling furniture without instructions and convincing kids broccoli is \u201ctiny trees.\u201d Your turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me tell you a secret: I almost failed my first PTA volunteer gig because I showed up thinking my only strength was making halfway decent boxed brownies (thanks, Betty Crocker). Cut to me three years later \u2013 homeschooling two kids through a pandemic, rebuilding our porch after a YouTube tutorial spiral, and mediating debates&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oreateai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}