80 Personal Resources To Get Your Best Version

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

And over time we confirm that we are all those and also some more that appear only in some special moments. I would not like to evoke my most romantic self right now, because perhaps I wrote a love letter and not an article for you, nor my most inconsequential part, because perhaps I would not write anything. And yet I am still those two Jorges and so many others, although now, at this very moment, I am not resorting to them.

80 personal resources that lead us to success

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

If we can always have the best of each one of us, we will avoid losing sight of our main objectives, we will stay on the path that gives meaning to the path we choose for our life and, in short, we will always offer, at all times, the best answer 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 one above the other. Read them carefully before I present you with an exercise in self – knowledge :

1. Acceptance of change
2. Savings
3. Friends
4. Love of knowledge
5. Love for life
6. Listening skills
7. Assertiveness
8. Self-control
9. Self dependence
10. Esteem
11. Goodness
12. Good deal
13. Good administration
14. Ability to learn
15. Working capacity
16. Charisma
17. Commitment
18. Creativity
19. Criterion
20. Curiosity
21. Realize
22. Diplomacy
23. Discipline
24. Enjoy the beauty
25. Empathy
26. Enthusiasm
27. Value scale
28. Hope
29. Spirituality
30. Esthetic
31. Strategy
32. Experience
33. Family
34. Faith
35. Generosity
36. Gratitude
37. Membership group
38. Manual skill
39. Social skill
40. Histrionics
41. Honesty
42. Humanity
43. Modesty
44. Impartiality
45. Ingenuity
46. Integrity
47. Abstract intelligence
48. Intuition
49. Judgment
50. Justice
51. Liberty
52. Leadership
53. master’s degree
54. Moral and ethical memory
55. Motivation
56. Negotiation
57. Optimism
58. Oratory
59. Patience
60. Civic participation
61. Perception
62. Sorry
63. Perseverance
64. Perspective
65. Proactivity
66. Prudence
67. Social networks
68. I respect
69. Wisdom
70. Seduction
71. Sense of humor
72. Serenity
73. Solidarity
74. Temperance
75. Tenacity
76. Tolerance
77. Take away
78. Job
79. Transcendence
80. Courage

The task that I propose is the following: take a few minutes to do this evaluation. Again, if you are in a place where it is difficult for you to concentrate, it is best to save it for later. But if you feel like it and you can, make yourself comfortable or comfortable and score 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?
• Am I counting on him?

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

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

1. I use this resource very little, possibly I have not developed it or do not usually have it, honestly.
2. I use it less than I should or could use it. But I would like to develop it further, I think it would be positive.
3. 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 this time. They are skills 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 do.

Part II: What resources do we use and what do we 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 at 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: Commit to our resources

The most important part of the job. It consists of making a commitment, not with others, but only with you. It is about choosing an item from the worst rated to work on it conscientiously, with the objective that the next time you come across this test, you will obtain a genuine and sincere 3 by evaluating yourself right at that specific point.

You may wonder why there is no score that is zero. It is not by chance. I do not believe that any, I repeat, any of these resources, is totally alien 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, we have been taught or it is useful to us. Subjectively, we emphasize certain qualities to the detriment of others that also belong to us.

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

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

Tips to enhance our life

All you know

All you’re

Everything that you do

Everything you have

Everything you believe

Everything … It has helped you get here …

How to continue?

How to go further?

Perhaps the time has come to use

Everything you still don’t know

Everything that you are not yet

Everything you don’t do for now

Everything you fortunately don’t have

Everything you never thought of as your own.