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.

New Purposes

We all live with many sets of purposes in our minds. We have lots of things we want to do before the sun sets every day. It is important to have clear purposes.

Many people live day to day, without a real purpose. Is there something to look forward to today?

We lost our sense of directions when we recovered from a major blow in our lives. We just do not know where to head to. We seem to forget that we still have the talents and gifts. We seem to forget that we all have acquired skills before all the unhappy events happened. We have forgotten that we still have families and friends who care enough to help us through.

Search in your heart, what was your passion before the unhappiness? Why must you let the unhappy event take over your passion? Can you somehow rekindle the passion?

Do you know how compelling passion is? It is able to to create that urgency in you that separates you from the external events of your life. Passion also allows you to live with a sense of purpose! You will be truly alive!

If you somehow cannot rekindle the passion as it may be linked to a painful experience, then, creat a new passion. Be renewed! Have new purposes to live!