This inner gifting takes shape as the child becomes a teenager often following a path that was orchestrated by an older mentor or guide.
This process of self-discovery is easier when it is initiated by parents or by a third party with the consent of the parents. However, this process may either be truncated or the environment might just not present the opportunities for the child to discover herself or himself.
The result? A society full of people who are just doing jobs or businesses because they need to be able to pay the bills and put food on the table. A good number of them are dissatisfied with what they call a job. Their daily routine is a grind, yet most of them know deep inside, this is not what they were built for. They struggle with their fundamental chores at work.
Once in a while their eyes light up in excitement when they come across a product or service rendered by someone who has turned a talent that they themselves have into a revenue-generating skill. They tell themselves, "I can do that!" A friend on facebook does an art work and gets 69 likes in less that 2 minutes of posting and they go "meeeeeeeeehn!"
Two things seem to stand in their way. Firstly, their current dissatisfying career does not afford them the luxury of time to develop their talent into a skill that can add value to potential clients. Secondly, they fear that this natural talent of theirs may not be able to bring in enough money to take care of the needs that their jobs manage to cater for.
This article seeks to answer the questions of those who for some reasons other than the one listed above do not know what their talent is. This class of people say stuff like "I enjoy doing so many things" or "There is nothing I do that I really love"
The discovery process will call for a lot of patience and a very observant attitude. Whatever talent it is that answers ALL these questions at the same time is worth pursuing. Yes you may need to save some money from your current job to be able to start small but you need to start. Why? That's because it is the ONLY thing you will enjoy doing. Who does not want stuff they enjoy doing? Okay here are some of the questions that can tell you what you were built for.
1. What is it that once you start doing it, you enjoy yourself?
Time just seems to come to a halt. Even you cannot explain it. It is like piece of cake for you but an uphill task for some others. You encounter challenges while doing it but the solutions seem to be within reach all the time even though it may take a while.
2. What is that You can willingly do even if you were sure you will not get paid for it? Yes this heavily contrasts with your current job where you look forward to the pay cheque at the end of the month or whatever agreed contract period.
3. What value adding activity makes it look like whatever time you spend in doing it is NOT ever enough?
You start on time or even before time but for some reason it looks like The Creator suddenly fast forwards time to ensure the finishing time comes sooner than expected? The illusion that time flies!
4. What exercise can make you forgo food for hours and in extreme cases days? All discomfort seems to vanish and hunger flies out the window once you are engaged in delivering this gift. You need to take note. That is your domain...that is YOUR LAND!
5. What activity leaves you tired but satisfied and leaves the recipients of the benefits of such activity even more satisfied? It is your perfect getaway. You maybe tired from the day's work but once you start, you just go on and on and on that a fully loaded machine gun connected to an inexhaustible magazine of armoury! Someone may have made you angry previously but this activity seems to make you forget in a hurry whatever the issue was!
6. What exercise will you continue doing even after the client insults you midway? You know one of those days when the client is upset and transfers the aggression on you for no reason other than that you were the first person they cam across since the occurrence of the annoying event.
7. Which activity seems to energize you to engage in it and leaves you giving the client more than the value agreed on? You just do not want to stop and sometimes get depressed whenever you have to stop. When your client does not see your passion or shares the same value you seem to get visibly upset. Note this is different from times when the client is not enjoying your mode of gift delivery. At such times you need to find out what it is you are not doing right and fix it for better customer satisfaction.
Now when you find that gift or exercise or activity or skill, follow it! Develop it! One day you will get enough momentum and money to switch to pursuing it passionately and totally neglect everything else that competes for your time. You will succeed. I know it!
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