What’s Your Unique Talent?
November 19, 2009 Career Change, Career Goals & Planning, Job Satisfaction, Meaning & Purpose, Personal Branding TrackBack URLUnique Talent = Natural Abilities + Your Unique Way Of Expressing Those Abilities
Your Natural Abilities
- What’s *that thing you do* which you’re so naturally talented at?
- What’s the work you’ve done effortlessly ever since you can remember?
- What’s the work or activities that energise you (rather than tire you) after you’ve completed them?
- What types of problems would your friends, colleagues and family pay you to fix out of their own pockets?
- What do you do when no one is looking?
- What type of tasks and activities make you completely lose track of time?
- What would you write about if I forced you to start sharing your expertise in a series of blog articles?
- What would you speak about if I forced you to give a 15 minute talk on a topic you felt confident speaking about?
- What would you do with your time if you inherited £20million and were told you only had 10 years left to live?
Your Unique Way Of Expressing Those Abilities
- What’s unique about the way you express those abilities?
- What are your key ‘weaknesses’ that are actually unique strengths in disguise?
- What are the things that make you stand out when you’re with your peers? (positive or negative)
- What’s the most quirkiest thing about you?
- What do your friends and colleagues often mock you about?
It’s In Your DNA
We’ve all got a unique talent – a natural ability that only we can express in a totally unique way. Just like your DNA, no one in history has ever had that combination.
Which is why:
- No one can write, sing and perform in the exact same way as Michael Jackson.
- No one can bend a football kick or become a fashion icon in the exact same way as David Beckham.
- No one can be a catalyst for compassion and change in the exact same way as Mother Theresa.
And no one can do *That Thing You Do* in quite the same way you do it. Your own unique talent is in-built – it’s part of your DNA.
Your Challenge
Your task then is to figure out what that unique talent is and then find people, organisations or a cause that can benefit from that talent.
Once you do that on a consistent basis, you’ll be able to build a powerful personal brand, attract success, wealth, job satisfaction and create a sense of meaning from your professional life that most people spend years searching for. It’s the holy grail.
But it doesn’t happened overnight.
Like everything, it starts with a first step. That first step is to start looking for clues about yourself and your unique talent by asking some tough questions of yourself.
I challenge you to take that first step…





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