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Strengths Finder Strengths

someone at work reminded me about strengthsfinder so I decided to look mine up again and post them here

Your Signature Themes

Darran D Kelinske

Your Signature Themes

Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families.

A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons behind your consistent successes.

Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your “top five.”

Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect performance.

Strategic

The Strategic theme enables you to sort through the clutter and find the best route. It is not a skill that can be taught. It is a distinct way of thinking, a special perspective on the world at large. This perspective allows you to see patterns where others simply see complexity. Mindful of these patterns, you play out alternative scenarios, always asking, “What if this happened? Okay, well what if this happened?” This recurring question helps you see around the next corner. There you can evaluate accurately the potential obstacles. Guided by where you see each path leading, you start to make selections. You discard the paths that lead nowhere. You discard the paths that lead straight into resistance. You discard the paths that lead into a fog of confusion. You cull and make selections until you arrive at the chosen path—your strategy. Armed with your strategy, you strike forward. This is your Strategic theme at work: “What if?” Select. Strike.

Achiever

Your Achiever theme helps explain your drive. Achiever describes a constant need for achievement. You feel as if every day starts at zero. By the end of the day you must achieve something tangible in order to feel good about yourself. And by “every day” you mean every single day—workdays, weekends, vacations. No matter how much you may feel you deserve a day of rest, if the day passes without some form of achievement, no matter how small, you will feel dissatisfied. You have an internal fire burning inside you. It pushes you to do more, to achieve more. After each accomplishment is reached, the fire dwindles for a moment, but very soon it rekindles itself, forcing you toward the next accomplishment. Your relentless need for achievement might not be logical. It might not even be focused. But it will always be with you. As an Achiever you must learn to live with this whisper of discontent. It does have its benefits. It brings you the energy you need to work long hours without burning out. It is the jolt you can always count on to get you started on new tasks, new challenges. It is the power supply that causes you to set the pace and define the levels of productivity for your work group. It is the theme that keeps you moving.

Learner

You love to learn. The subject matter that interests you most will be determined by your other themes and experiences, but whatever the subject, you will always be drawn to the process of learning. The process, more than the content or the result, is especially exciting for you. You are energized by the steady and deliberate journey from ignorance to competence. The thrill of the first few facts, the early efforts to recite or practice what you have learned, the growing confidence of a skill mastered—this is the process that entices you. Your excitement leads you to engage in adult learning experiences—yoga or piano lessons or graduate classes. It enables you to thrive in dynamic work environments where you are asked to take on short project assignments and are expected to learn a lot about the new subject matter in a short period of time and then move on to the next one. This Learner theme does not necessarily mean that you seek to become the subject matter expert, or that you are striving for the respect that accompanies a professional or academic credential. The outcome of the learning is less significant than the “getting there.”

Competition

Competition is rooted in comparison. When you look at the world, you are instinctively aware of other people’s performance. Their performance is the ultimate yardstick. No matter how hard you tried, no matter how worthy your intentions, if you reached your goal but did not outperform your peers, the achievement feels hollow. Like all competitors, you need other people. You need to compare. If you can compare, you can compete, and if you can compete, you can win. And when you win, there is no feeling quite like it. You like measurement because it facilitates comparisons. You like other competitors because they invigorate you. You like contests because they must produce a winner. You particularly like contests where you know you have the inside track to be the winner. Although you are gracious to your fellow competitors and even stoic in defeat, you don’t compete for the fun of competing. You compete to win. Over time you will come to avoid contests where winning seems unlikely.

Restorative

You love to solve problems. Whereas some are dismayed when they encounter yet another breakdown, you can be energized by it. You enjoy the challenge of analyzing the symptoms, identifying what is wrong, and finding the solution. You may prefer practical problems or conceptual ones or personal ones. You may seek out specific kinds of problems that you have met many times before and that you are confident you can fix. Or you may feel the greatest push when faced with complex and unfamiliar problems. Your exact preferences are determined by your other themes and experiences. But what is certain is that you enjoy bringing things back to life. It is a wonderful feeling to identify the undermining factor(s), eradicate them, and restore something to its true glory. Intuitively, you know that without your intervention, this thing—this machine, this technique, this person, this company—might have ceased to function. You fixed it, resuscitated it, rekindled its vitality. Phrasing it the way you might, you saved it.

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Geologger test run complete

heres the run-down:
i got the geo logger today
hardware works great so far
software install was finicky
software operation and hardware operation are not that user friendly either
regardless of these circumstances I was able to successfully geolog a trip to Fry’s to get some extra ram for the laptop

I haven’t been able to figure out how to embed it into the location page yet, but I put the test run on the net here –

http://whereisdarran.com/geotag/GoogleMapExport/PhotoTrackrExport.html

i like the current output – improvments that I want to make are better auto tagging of location, removal of image scaling and compression – i want to retain the original picture quality

also, I uploaded the same pics to picasa – once the photos are geotagged picasa automatically places your pics on a map, you do miss out on your route though.

check out the picasa upload here

http://picasaweb.google.com/darran.kelinske/GeotagTest/photo#map

and finally I uploaded the pics to locr:

locr pics

slideshow in locr:

locr slideshow

I also switched the live streaming from justin.tv to yahoo live temporarily – justin.tv seems to cut out sporadically and not recover. Yahoo live doesnt have a standalone stream window which is kind of weak – it also does not have as much configuration abilities as the justin.tv or ustream.tv

now im switched to mogulus.com – the interface for mogulus is the best so far – well see how it performs overall

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more updates

i needed a digi watch to keep track of time in africa – not sure if my tent has electricity or not – scooped one up at target and added it to the gear page – still making a few changes here and there like the header image – cam is rolling live, but nothing interesting is going on

if you’re wondering what im listening to, the techno is radioblagon coming straight to your ears from paris

http://www.radioblagon.com/v7/

they have multiple streams – the following is the one that im jammin

http://shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=949071&file=filename.pls

the african music is from KLH News International

http://www.klhnews.com/

stream: http://sh2.audio-stream.com/tunein.php/mwanakijiji007/playlist.pls

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live feed

i switched the live feed from ustream.tv to justin.tv – ustream.tv has some gui issues on their admin pages, justin.tv seems to have a more robust offering so far

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updates

two new sections – music and gear

keep everyone up to date on cool tunes and gear

website

i have almost got the theme complete, but want to figure out how to add comments for pages – most themes have this, but this one does not seem to

also – this theme did not have a links section for the sidebar menu

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changed theme

trying to merge the previous two themes into one was unsuccessful – I have chosen this current layout and am now cleaning up the css – let me know if you have any suggestions on anything

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Status – 7/3/2008

i decided to try wordpress instead of drupal to manage this site – currently I am trying out some themes and testing functionality to ensure everything needed can be done relatively easy – so far wordpress has been a cinch to get installed

im going to test embedding a video from Antarctica below and a picture from India and a picture from the Pecos Wilderness

Taking a dip in Antarctic waters

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Enjoying some man-made beauty and a journey begins

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