Personal Strengths Discovery Worksheet | Sagebrush Counseling

Individual Therapy Worksheet

Personal Strengths Discovery

A therapeutic worksheet for identifying, evidencing, and intentionally building upon the strengths you already carry.

Where You Start

Your Strengths

Top 5

In Your Life

Building On Them

Part One

Where you are starting from

Most people find it easier to list what they struggle with than what they do well. This worksheet starts by looking honestly at your current relationship with your own strengths — before asking you to identify them.

How comfortable are you right now with identifying and talking about your personal strengths?

Very uncomfortable — I rarely think about my strengths

Uncomfortable — it feels like bragging

Neutral — I can do it but don't often

Comfortable — I'm aware of some strengths

Very comfortable — I know and appreciate my strengths

What makes it difficult for you to recognize or acknowledge your own strengths? Where does that come from?

When you do something well, how do you typically explain it to yourself — luck, hard work, who you are, or something else?

Notice the pattern:

"When something goes well, my first instinct is to tell myself _____________ — rather than acknowledging _____________"

What positive feedback or compliments do you receive most often from others — even if you tend to dismiss them? The things people keep saying about you that you keep deflecting. Those are data.

Part Two

Personal strengths inventory

Strengths come in many forms — not just talents or skills. Review each category and check the ones that apply. Be generous with yourself. If you demonstrate a quality even sometimes, check it.

0 strengths selected

Part Three

Your top 5 strengths

From everything you checked, narrow it down to the five that feel most genuinely, consistently yours — the qualities you come back to across different situations and different seasons of your life.

Tip: Don't pick the ones you think you should have. Pick the ones that feel most true — even if they surprise you, even if they feel mundane, even if they aren't the ones other people seem to value most.

Part Five

Where your strengths show up

Your strengths don't stay in one box. Consider how they appear across the different domains of your life — and where you might be underusing them.

Work or Career

Relationships

Family

Personal Growth

During Crisis or Challenge

Community or Service

Looking at all of the above — where do you tend to underuse your strengths? What would it look like to apply them more intentionally in that area?

Part Six

Leveraging and building on your strengths

Knowing your strengths is the beginning. Using them intentionally — in your goals, your relationships, your daily life — is what makes them grow. This section turns awareness into action.

How could you use your top strengths more intentionally in your daily life? Be specific — what would actually change?

Make it concrete:

"One way I could use _____________ more intentionally is _____________ — starting with _____________"

What goals or challenges in your life right now could you approach through the lens of your strengths — rather than focusing only on what's missing?

Is there a strength you want to develop further — something that is real but not yet fully expressed? What would developing it require?

Part Seven

Where you are now

A quick honest read of your current relationship with your strengths — to compare against when you revisit this worksheet.

Part Eight

Weekly strengths tracker

Track how you use and recognize your strengths across the next week. The practice of noticing is itself the intervention.

Day	Strength used	Situation	What happened

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