HOW TO DISCOVER YOUR TALENT

Talents are natural gifts that a person is born with, and they are to be discovered by the owner. Some of them have been developed already; others are still waiting to be discovered, one thing you need to know is that no one will and can help you to discover your talent, its something you have to notice about you and respect the feeling and following it up. In any case, if you want to be happy in life, you will have to start expressing your most important talents. These key talents are an essential part of your mission on earth. The very reason you have received them is for you to offer them to others, to use them to help others and this way find satisfaction for yourself. Nobody else can implement your mission the way you can.
These powerful aspects and abilities of yours desire’s to be used. If not, then you will feel disappointed, tired, burdened, frustrated and irritated. Every activity, every project requires certain capacities and preferences.
For instance, if your job requires certain abilities that you miss, then you will get over loaded and worked out. On the other hand, if your talents are not required for the job you are presently doing, you will feel resistance and bored. It is crucially important to know your talents and to create the kind of environment where they can come forward and flourish.

Now here are some steps to discovering your talents.

Take a few minutes to think about yourself. You already possess many abilities, things you accomplish without even thinking about it, without effort. Many things you have learned and mastered are now easily achieved. What talents of yours have been fully activated? These are the talents you use routinely, things you can do easily. Things you can do with learning how to. Make a list of everything you can do easily and of every talent and quality you possess already. This list should be long, at least 30 items, but more is better. You have more than your obvious, visible talents. You also have stored talents. These are talents you know you have but you are not using them. The reasons for this are often excuses like “I’m too busy, I don’t dare to, I’m not sure if I’m good enough at that, I’m afraid to make a fool of myself, I’m too old to start that now,” and so on. Another reason could be that you fear your life might well take a totally different turn when you start focusing on this talent of yours! It’s possible that you alone are aware of your talent for singing or acting. Maybe you’re a writer in disguise. But you’re afraid to come forward out of fear. You are afraid that you’re not good enough after all, or that you would have to quit your current way of living when you are truly “discovered!” This long list of your talents contains your key talents. Key talents are qualities that are outstanding, talents you are known for, talents that are so typical for you that, if one took them away from you, you wouldn’t be the same person anymore. What are these talents or qualities? Can it be your enthusiasm, your communication skills, your sensitivity, your organizational talents, your brilliant voice, or what? What talents do you have that are such a big part of your identity that your friends cannot image you without them? These are the most visible and out-standing. What are you known for? What would your friends say about you if they had to describe you in just a few words?

Sometimes talents are discovered during your worse moments, for instance a boy once told me that, he discovered one of his talents when he finished his high school, at that moment he had no job, no money and was completely empty. Well he said one day he was lying down on the floor of their parlor, just staring through the open door at the cloud, and some inspiration just came into him, he started thinking of stories and found out that he had just came up with a movie script idea, he started writing and just without any tutorial on script writing, he created the scene and made a movie, he wrote over 150 pages and more, that period he had written two scripts, he discovered that he could write books and scripts, now from this story you will discover that he was taught nothing he’s done, that’s what talent is, it is in you already all you need to do is give it the time and the concentration needed and you will be just fine.

Well, once you've identified your dominant natural talents, and assessed to what extent you've developed them into strengths, you can ask yourself:
1. What do I want to achieve with my life?
2. What are my purpose and goals?
3. Which are my most important natural talents I want to develop further?
4. Which of my natural talents can contribute most to achieving my purpose and goals?
5. What do I have to do to develop these talents into strengths?
6. What knowledge do I need to learn to develop these talents?
7. What skills do I need to acquire or improve to develop these talents?
8. What weaknesses do I need to overcome to develop these talents?
These key talents are the core of your mission on earth. This is the purpose of your life: to discover your talents (your Divine Gifts) and to offer them to those who are meant to get in contact with you, in order to make this world a better place to live.