{"id":206399,"date":"2019-05-30T14:10:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T14:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strengthbasedliving.com\/?p=206399"},"modified":"2021-05-05T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T16:46:15","slug":"building-character-with-a-30-day-practice-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strengthbasedliving.com\/strengthbasedliving.com\/getting-inspired\/building-character-with-a-30-day-practice-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"BUILDING CHARACTER WITH A 30-DAY PRACTICE (BOOK REVIEW)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article authored by<\/b><\/em> Rosalinda Ballesteros Valdes,<\/i> <\/a>director of the Institute for Wellbeing and Happiness at Universidad Tecmilenio, was originally published on PositivePsychologyNews.com<\/a><\/em> on May 22, 2019. <\/b><\/p>\n

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Jane Strunk Anderson\u2019s book,\u00a030 Days of Character Strengths: A Guided Practice to Ignite Your Best<\/a><\/em> lays out a month-long series of practices to help people intentionally develop their own character strengths. It can also be used by coaches or team leaders to help people work together to develop habits around character strengths.<\/p>\n

Positive Psychology highlights the importance of focusing on strengths. Lea Waters, professor at the University of Melbourne, defines strengths as what you do well and enjoy doing that benefits others. Anderson explains that character strengths are core capacities for thinking, feeling, and behaving in ways that can bring benefit to self and others.<\/p>\n

Who is the author?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jane Anderson has studied character strengths with the Wholebeing Institute and the VIA Institute on Character, and she has taught them in the Wholebeing Institute and to her clients. She is now running a 6-week program called\u00a0Rise and Thrive in 2019<\/a>. In her biography on the\u00a0Strength Based Living site<\/a>, she states:<\/p>\n

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\u201cSometimes it\u2019s necessary to improve weaknesses and what\u2019s wrong, but I find that as a society we\u2019re good at focusing on the negative and less practiced at pursuing the positive. I hope to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She herself has worked her way through more than forty 30-day practices, by herself and with friends, so this format comes very naturally to her.<\/p>\n

What is in the book?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anderson invites you, the reader, to start by creating a personal strengths profile using the VIA Strengths Survey <\/a>that is freely available online. With this profile in hand, Anderson\u2019s book leads you through the following four-week practice:<\/p>\n