Superhuman Strength

My sister-in-law is totally into Strength’s Quest. She has made my whole family take the test. I actually took the test when I was a Peer Advisor at LeTourneau. My top 5 strengths were:

1. Harmony
2. Responsibility
3. Deliberative
4. Arranger
5. Belief

These actually do explain a lot about my personality. I always try to stay at peace with everybody and keep everybody else at peace with another which explains harmony. I have always been the responsible one and followed rules…did what I was supposed to…etc. As far as deliberative, if you know me then you know it takes me forever to make decisions. I promise you that I will make one though. It just might take me days or even months to make it. The arranger strength fits into me trying to arrange things to work out in the best possible way that they can. I do see how I do this in everyday life, whether it is me trying to arrange a situation that would be comfortable for all people in attendance or organizing my tasks at work in the best order for them to be done. Belief is pretty self-explanatory. I have strong personal beliefs that I really stick to.

The one that I wish I had lately would be futuristic. All the plans that I make seem to never come to fruition. When I graduated high school, my dream for after college was to run/own a children’s camp….doesn’t look like that will happen. I never even worked as a counselor at a summer camp….unless you count LeTourneau camps and I don’t count them. A more recent dream was to teach English overseas or even just do some type of overseas ministry. I am now backing out of that dream.

I am so scared of living a safe life for the rest of my time on earth. I don’t want to stay somewhere because it is easy and comfortable. I want to be able to jump and be willing to fall. I want to take risks. I want to see new places. I want to explore what else is out there. Right now though, the responsibility strength holds me back from this. I need to be able to pay my monthly student loan bill. I need to be able to pay for my car insurance and gas. I need to be able to pay for my cell phone.

Why can’t I hold back the responsibility strength for a little bit and be able to go on an adventure? How is it that responsibility can end up being a bad thing sometimes? Quit holding me back responsibility!!

Maybe I just need the “get your butt in gear and follow through” strength! Or at least x-ray vision....cause I figure that could get me far in life...