Find your natural talents and focus on them
You must invest most of your time every week doing what you do best, and let others do what they do best. Most people struggle because they spend their time in jobs not suited to their strengths. What they do doesn’t come to them naturally, effortlessly.
When you spend your time on things that come to you effortlessly, you get even more energy after doing them. These are where most results are created…..
Step 1: find your natural talents.
Make a list of things that when you do them you 1. Generally enjoy 2, Get more energy, 3. Feel no effort. Make the opposite list. Those activities suck your energy and prevent you from achieving your goal. Besides thinking by yourself you can either ask a good friend or even take a personality test. Be clear and brief.
Step 2: Focus on your strengths, delegate the rest.
1. Arrange your life around things that are important and you really love. Learn to prioritize each and every day. Make those things first thing in the morning when you most fresh and alert.
2. For activities that suck your energy - Say no to yourself and others (Habit reframing). Dump or Delegate
My life example
I was fortunate to take a personality test, part of a past MBA course. Here are the main findings of a 20 pages report in relation to strengths and natural talents:
His Style:
- He is likely to be a kind of person who come up with an idea and the sell it enthusiastically.
- His wide range of social contacts also means that he could be a good entrepreneur.
- Most effective when he works with others who evaluate his proposal and then implement them.
- His style is to delegate work to subordinates. The process may involve little consolation or supervision.
- Those who are naturally independent and enjoy freedom will enjoy working with him.
- He motivates subordinates by encouraging them, through incentives, to work towards common objectives.
- He is most effective in environments that allow freedom and less procedures/methods.
- He has talents or expertise is in "hi-tech" areas.
- He takes radical stance and present ideas that are likely to be different from the culture.
- Normally can be dependent upon to achieve the goals he set for himself.
- Enjoy seeing ideas turned into action. Not place great emphasis upon precise details.
- Tend to take more of a global picture with intuition
- Enjoy discussion with others. High degree of harmony within a team with team spirit and effective working relationships.
- Encourage innovation and creativity. Have an orientation towards the future.
- Above all, it will be his vision, his insight, and his forward-thinking approach which will bring a special quality to all that he does.
His potential strengths:
- Appear to be self assured and confident, Inclined to question traditional beliefs, Self sufficient.
- Have high regard of people, Effective in social spot light.
- Quickly respond to challenges and may enjoy risks, Unrestrained be rules of social expectations.
Potential development needs:
- Not considering all options, insufficient concern of protocol, too trusting, lack a sense of urgency, something of a loner, unnecessary risks.
- Need to spend more time in more focused concentration, Need to focus more on the long term needs, reflect on ideas a little more time.
His career theme scales:
- Investigative – Manipulation of ideas and scientific principles. He enjoys applying logical ideas to solve experimental problems.
- Artistic – Expression of artistic and creative ideas. Art in the broadest manifestation.
- Social – Activities that involve caring for others, teaching and generally assisting others to achieve their potential.
- Enterprising – Business situations where he is able to exercise leadership, managerial skills and public acclaim.
Now, Although receiving this report while doing my first MBA subject, Paradoxically, this report has led me to quit MBA course and focus more on entrepreneurship activities, which are creative and involve helping others. Those activities are leading to the formation of business entities which will then either be sold or managed automatically by others.
A clear vision has been set and pointed that day.
Chief Editor
Tal Gur is an author, founder, and impact-driven entrepreneur at heart. After trading his daily grind for a life of his own daring design, he spent a decade pursuing 100 major life goals around the globe. His journey and most recent book, The Art of Fully Living, has led him to found Elevate Society.
