We proudly salute Tessa* from our January 2015 Cohort—for exceptional courage and high spirit.
Our cohort has been exploring ways to create or tweak our personal goals by identifying our strengths and values in “success threads”: re-occurring stories that have shaped our past and still resonate with our self-worth and joy. Tessa is serving us as a natural team leader, and we want to take a pause to recognize her and invite her to take a bow.
We’re targeting our Top Ten strengths from the VIA Character Survey results and using them as prompts for daily journaling. Our pledge is to set aside quiet time every day—first thing before morning routine or last thing before sleeping—to unlock those re-occurring stories and document them in a Goals Journal. Tessa has been our Standard Bearer. She writes every day without fail and gives it her all.
She has also been one of the most open participants when we meet together to share, and like a person walking the leading edge, she’s allowed other people plenty of space and a feeling of safety to feel they can also open up and be vulnerable. She’s the kind of woman who defines wholeheartedness.
There are people who walk into a room and light it up. There are people who pull up a chair and warm the whole setting. Our group dynamic has felt richer and more vibrant because of Tessa. She’s one of those people who bring light and warmth, and we’re lucky she’s one of us.
Brava, Tessa! We adore you.
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*name changed for privacy
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