Rediscovering Your Skills

Like I mentioned before, skills are acquired. Even if you do not know what your talents are, you can still learn skills. A skill is a competency as a result of years of training, experience and education. Anyone can have dozens of skills. Even fixing a small light bulb in the kitchen is a skill!

Some skills are also gifts or talents. Carpentry is a skill for some, but for someone who has artistic abilities, carpentry comes easily. He makes beautiful things with his skill and talent. Some children learn music when they are very young. All parents hope to bring out the musical talent in their children. However, not all children are gifted this way. Some can move gracefully eventhough they may not be able to play any musical instruments. Some are able to sing well, in fact very well after some music lessons ..... these are talents and skills blended together.

Some people have to work very hard in order to get their skills right because they are not gifted. However, due to their hardwork, these skills bring them success and recognitions.

List down your skills now. There are many which you many not remember that you have. These including cooking, cleaning, gardening and even raising children. You can also include some interpersonal skills such as listening, asking questions, motivating, persuading and so on.

List your skills in these categories:

Domestic

Business

Interpersonal

Sel Management

Recreational

You may be able to add more to your list as time goes by.

Rediscovering Your Talents

We are all blessed with specific gifts or talents. These abilities are very natural with us. These gifts can be our life purposes that would help in fulfilling our beliefs about ourselves.

Some of these gifts are: musical talents, athletic ability, ability with numbers, sense of humour, taste buds, artistic abilities, etc ......

Yet, during our growing up years and then the busyness of building our new lives, we seem to have lost touch of these abilities.

Actually, nobody has only one specific gift. If you are a person with a good sense of humour, then you may also be someone who has ease with people, one who makes friends easily with a cheerful and merry outlook. These are talents in their own rights. Not everyone has the same abilities. Another person with a good sense of humour maybe blessed with a flair in languages, diplomacy and so on.

Let me rephrase .... these talents or special gifts are actually your signature in other people's lives. These talents has made you unique. They give people some impressions about you. Most people remember us what what we did, or do. They do not really recognise us physically, but they recognise our talents.

Check yourself today. Take time to think about your talents or gifts.