80 personal resources to bring out your best version

Shortly after analyzing ourselves, with or without help, we discover that a range of internal ‘I’s’ opens up before our eyes. We say to ourselves: “I am this”, “I am that other”, “I am in such a way, but not in that way”…

And with the time we confirm that we are all those and also some more that appear only in some special moments. I wouldn’t want to evoke my most romantic self right now, because maybe I would write a love letter and not an article for you, nor my most inconsequential part, because maybe I wouldn’t write anything. And yet, I continue to be those two Jorges and so many others, even though now, at this precise moment, I don’t turn to them.

80 personal resources that lead us to success

If I am capable of evoking at each moment the best and most appropriate parts of myself In order to have the best resources in each situation, I will possibly achieve the most convenient result for me and for those I love. And this is true for everyone.

If we can always count on the best of each other, we will avoid losing sight of our main objectives, we will stay on the course that gives meaning to the path we choose for our lives and, in short, we will always offer, at all times, the best response that we are capable of giving.

And what are these resources that we have?

Do you know what yours are?

Here is a list of 80 resources, some internal and others external, of which, who more who less, we all use in different situations. They are arranged alphabetically to avoid ranking them above each other. Read them carefully before I ask you an exercise in self knowledge:

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Acceptance of change Savings Friends Love for knowledge Love for life Listening skills Assertiveness Self-control Self-dependence Self-esteem Good treatment Good administration Ability to learn Ability to work Charisma Commitment Creativity Criterion Curiosity Being aware Diplomacy Discipline Enjoying beauty Empathy Enthusiasm Scale of values Hope Spirituality Aesthetics Strategy Experience Family Faith Generosity Gratitude Belonging group Manual ability Social ability Histrionics Honesty Humanity Humility Impartiality Ingenuity Integrity Abstract intelligence Intuition Judgment Justice Freedom Leadership Mastery Memory Moral and ethics Motivation Negotiation Optimism Oratory Patience Civic participation Perception Forgiveness Perseverance Perspective Proactivity Prudence Social networks Respect Wisdom Seduction Sense of humor Serenity Solidarity Temperance Tenacity Tolerance Taking distance Work Transcendence Courage

The task that I propose to you is the following: take a few minutes to do this assessment. Once again, if you are in a place where it is difficult for you to concentrate, it is better to leave it for later. But if you feel like it and you can, make yourself comfortable and rate yourself according to the following criteria.

Part I: Detection of personal resources

In front of each word, ask yourself:

Is this a resource of mine? I use it? Does it define me? Do I count on him?

Answer yourself honestly and, according to your answers, rate yourself from 1 to 3 (next to each word).

This is a guide-parameter that you could use for your score:

I use this resource very little, Possibly I don’t have it developed or I don’t usually have it, honestly. I use it less than I should or could use it. But I would like develop it further, I think it would be positive. It is one of my most used resources in my day to day. I know that I use it frequently or others confirm that I know how to use it effectively. At the end of the list you can add any of your favorite resources, whether or not you have them developed at the moment. They are abilities that I did not know how to include, in some cases due to forgetfulness and in others because, possibly, I do not have them as much as you.

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Part II: Which resources do we use and which do not?

Once all the resources on the list have been evaluated, on a separate sheet write down the ones you have marked with a 3 and underline the ones you use most frequently. If you can, take the list with you for a few days. Those are your usual resources, the ones you always have on hand and the ones you know how to use best.

Use another sheet to place those skills that you classified with 2 or 1. They are the ones that you do not have so close at hand or you would like to develop more.

Part III: Committing to our resources

The most important part of the job. Consists in make a commitment, not with others, but only with you. It is about choosing an item from the worst qualified to work on it conscientiously, with the objective that the next time you come across this test you obtain a genuine and sincere 3 when evaluating yourself on that specific point.

You may wonder why there is no score that is zero. It is not accidental. I do not think that any, I repeat, any of these resources, is totally foreign to you. Something of each one is in you and therefore you can increase it.

Let us remember that, before ourselves and before others, we define ourselves as we please, have taught us or is useful to us. Subjectively, we put the accent on certain qualities to the detriment of others that also belong to us.

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Growing and developing as people means to a great extent avoid becoming a prisoner of definitions and labels that you are used to putting on or that they put on you from outside. Look inside yourself to discover all those gifts that are beyond appearances, the judgments of others, the roles that have been or have been assigned to you. And firmly assume the commitment of what you can become.

A few years ago, a friend and colleague from Costa Rica, Martha Morris, sent me a poem similar to this one, which I don’t know who wrote, at a very difficult time for me. Allow me to abbreviate it to share it with you today: