Want To Find Work You Are Great At?
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The First Aspect of Great Work
Do you want to know what professions you can excel at? Do you feel like you could be great at something, you just don’t know what it is?
Finding the first element of great work is not that hard, once you know that your gifts and talents point the way to the work you can excel at. Your gifts and talents give you an affinity for certain types of work. And because they represent natural skills you already have or can easily develop, you can quickly understand why you will excel when you use them.
Green Thumbs & Moore
Ever met someone who has a green thumb and can grow anything? Or someone who just knows what the right spice is to add to the recipe to make something more delicious? Or who has an eye for the right lipstick or a knack for calling the next play in football?
All of these are examples of natural abilities ... and they can make you great at a job if you can find work that will let you use them ... or pay you to refine them. Or if you start your own business, you can offer these as your services or use them to develop amazing products.
Turning Gifts into Jobs
Sometimes it can be hard to see how to turn a gift or talent into a great job or business .... so here are a few examples. If you ...
- have a "green thumb" you excel at growing things. Combined with your other 4-9 talents (most people have between 5 and 10) ... you would do well in Life Path 2 occupations like being a farmer, horticulturist, botanist, orchard manager, landscaper or vintner (grows grapes for wine).
- know a hit song when you hear it you can excel working in a Life Path 3 profession such as musician, band manager, talent agent, song writer, radio/video disc jockey, music composer, demo singer, music executive, or music critic.
- are good at sensing weather changes you could become a great a meteorologist, weather forecaster, tornado hunter, coast guard officer, commercial fisherman, or air traffic controller.
- can establish instant rapport you have a gift that lets you excel at being a life coach, counselor, salesman, comic, speech writer or telemarketer.
It all depends on how you combine all your gifts and talents (you have 5 -10 of them) with the other elements of great work.
Tools For Finding Work You Excel At
If you are ready to learn more and start discovering the work you are great at, these are the tools I recommend ...
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A groundbreaking book that highlights discovering your strengths (known as your gifts and talents ) to focus on what you can be great at. |
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance An action oriented book for how to put your natural gifts and talents to work and excel at what you do everyday at the office or factory. |
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Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else How you practice is more important than raw talent - and is how masters and other world class performers become great at what they do. |
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The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. The three key ingredients to unlock your talents so you can realize your potential and become great at what you can naturally excel at. |
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This book helps you tap into your natural gifts and talents and discover what you excel at -- along with 50 ideas for acton for your top five themes or gifts. |
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Living Your Strengths: Discover Your God-Given Talents and Inspire Your Community Take your gifts and strengths and put them to good use in your community, as well as your workplace. Ideas and insights for faith based work. |
Movies About Work You Are Great At
Stories and movies are a great way to learn about finding and doing work you are great at-- along with inspiring quotes. Here are a few of my best recommendations for inspiring films you can learn from.
When you are naturally great at your work, it is easy to be ...
