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What’s Your Unique Talent?

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Unique 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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