The Program to Fix My Atrophied Self

Sure I’ll do the Mental Pilates program, I’ll help, and it can’t hurt. I thought. Taking the VIA Strengths survey would be a good place to start, I thought. I know my skills, I’m highly skilled at many things, and this will help me focus, I thought. When I completed the survey my initial reaction was okay, good survey, its accurate.
It stated that these are my top 5 Character Strengths
1. Creativity, ingenuity
2. Hope optimism, future-mindedness
3. Curiosity Interest, novelty-seeking, openness to experience
4. Open-mindedness judgment
5. Perspective and wisdom

My next thought was “So what?” and then it hit me. There it was- exactly the problem that Mental Pilates can help me fix. I know my strengths and I want to utilize them in the next phase of my career. But there it was “So what?” I thought and I realized I’d let myself “go down the rabbit hole” and the swirling doubts were and it was suddenly blindingly obvious why I was having such a tough time even deciding which jobs to apply for, never mind following through on the applications if I could decide.

I used to know how to do this, and like many things in my life this came naturally to me, it wasn’t until I’d been pelted repeatedly in the snowball fight of life; and settled into an unstructured and unemployed day to day for months that stretched to years, that luckily I was asked to participate in this program, because it is abundantly clear that I not only need it, but it is exactly what I need to begin to gain back my atrophied confidence and vitality.