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Develop your talents

Norman cousins once noted that"tragedy of life is not death,but what we let die inside of us while we live".In a similar vein,Ashley Mortagu wrote that"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is contituted by the difference between what One was capable of becoming and what one has infact become."There is a difference between simply existing and truly living.There is a distinaction between simply surviving and reallly thriving.

The sad thing is that most people have lost sight of the human gifts that lie within them and have resigned themselves to spending the best years of their lives watching television in a subdivision.

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In my speeches,i often use the following story drawn from ancient Indian mythology to remind the audience that there is an abundance of potential and ability just waiting to be awakened within us if we will only allow it to see the light of day.thousands of year ago,it was believed that everyone who walked the earth was a god.But humankind abused its limitless power so that supreme god decided to the godhead,the source of all of this potential,so that no(one) could find it,The Question then become,where could such a thing be hidden ?I said:suggested it could be placed deep inthe ground to which the supreme god replied."No,eventuallly someone will dig deep enough and find it."The socond of my person then offered,"what if we place the godhead at the button of the deepest ocean"to which the supreme god respons,"No,eventualllly someone will drive enough and find it."

The third person than chimed in,"well,why don't we put it on the Top of the highest mountain?"which prompted the supreme god to replay,"No,I'm certain that eventualllly someone will scale that highest of peaks and find it."after reflecting for sometym,the supreme god found the solution: "I will put this source of all human power,potential and purpose inside the hearts of every man,woman and child on the planet,for they will never think to look there.."

In all my work with employees of organization across America,I see the same thing:to many people spend more time focusing on their weakness rather than developing there strenghts .By concertrating On what they don"t have,they neglect the talents they do have.The greatest people who have gone before us all had a simple strategy that ensured their success.they knew themselves.They made the time to reflect on their care-abilities those special qualities that made then unique-and spend the rest of their lives refining and expanding them.you see,we are all endowed with the capacity for genius.perhaps you just not taken the time to discover what your personal gifts are and then homed them to the level where you'r considered brilliant.

--------------Are you using the best within you to its fullest capacity?if not,you'r not only doing yourself a disservice,you'r doing the world,and all those with In who could benefit from your unique talents.a disservice.Ruskin put in this way,"The weakest among us has a gift,however seemingly trivial,which is peculiar to him and which wonthily used will be a gift also to his race."

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