Discovery is the mother of accomplishment, if you fail to discover you fail to accomplish. Discover your talent today and the infinite world will discover you. You are created with great potentials which are crying out for discovery. You cannot afford to die with that great potential otherwise your world will ever regret tasted your presence without achieving your definite chief aim; and equally deny you the vicinity comfort of your eternity. The world is waiting patiently to embrace you. It can only welcome you with immeasurable fortunes when your uniquely God’s given talent is being discovered. It is no strange and no doubt many are yet to acknowledge what talent is all about that is why they remain stagnant, limited and even die with the great untapped potentials. What irreparable lost talent in the graveyard!
Sincerely, all of us have one talent or the other. If really we discover and work on it, I bet you the sky will be our stepping stone, and not our limit. Among all the properties possess by human beings, there is only one that last for ever, and if someone dies, it is that only one that can be buried with him or her. It has never been in a history when someone had been buried with cars, plane, house or billions of naira for he was rich. The only property, as I call it “intellectual property” abides with you here and eternity is talent. Heaven and earth will blame you if you fail to discover your talent before the call comes.
As I said earlier, many people do not understand the meaning of the word “talent” that is why they remain physically and intellectually poor. No one is being created to be poor except you choose to be so, otherwise God created everyone to be great like him. God himself is not poor, therefore whatsoever that is been created by HIM is not expected to be poor. This is no doubt, the problem of many people about the smallest but mighty and transforming word called “talent” is the failure to acknowledge it’s meaning and crystallization; and the solution is to discover and work on it.. By discovering and working on your talent you will see yourself in the realm of the successful
What is talent? It is natural power to do something very well as defined by my advanced oxford dictionary. But, personally I define it as intellectual power or possession to do something very well at ease. It is intellectual power or possession because when it is discovered, it doesn’t need any strange tactic to do it; It neither need force nor power to showcase one’s talent. It is always freely and smoothly rendered with ease and happiness. It is not what you want or like to do but what you do with ease and happiness without Gallup while rendering it. That is talent!
Have you ever been embarrassed by that question “what are you?” I didn’t mean “who are you?” because no one is ashamed to answer his name, his or her parents name .For instance, who are you? I am Laspoka. No stress! We are all born of somebody, so I don’t think it’s difficult to answer that question. But when the question becomes more personal like “Laspoka, what are you?” It is here you will see that Mr. Laspoka will begin to stammer if he doesn’t have a definite chief aim in life failed to discover his talent. The stammering here is because Mr. Laspoka has no well defined discovered talent. But if the talent is being discovered, and such question comes like “Mr. Laspoka, what are you?” I am a music star, or I am a writer. You see? Because he has now well tangible personal discovered talent, the answer is very simple. He answered it without stammering because he now knows what he is. You, as my reader today, what are you? Have you discovered your talent? What step are you taking to see yourself among the successful kingdom? Every successful and great people around the world are men and women who discovered their talent that is why they are in the position they are today.
The problem we are having in discovering and actualizing our talent these days is because we want to be master of all, which can never be possible. There is a saying that “jacks of all trades make jack a dull boy”. There is nothing so dangerous like when someone is ignorant of the purpose of his life. For anyone to discover his or her talent or make lasting success that will last generation, he must first of all be concerned about his or her purpose of existence. It is obvious that many are wallowing in abject poverty because they failed to acknowledge the purpose of their existence. God created everyone with specific and unique gift that when it is being located, you become great; but when it is failed to be located, you will continue battling with your life until death comes. Since this book has gotten to your hand, you will no longer battle with your life anymore. But, take note that there is a great potential specifically given to everyone at birth; it is now up to you to locate it.
There are so many obstacles that these days prevent many people from discovering their real talent; that in normal circumstance in ought no way to be so. The fact here is that too many individuals are easily giving in to self pity and self depression. If any one wants to make it in life or discover his or her talent, giving in room to self pity and self depression must be totally massacred before it massacres your future. The fact that you are a cripple, blind, dumb, sicklier or handicapped (have one disability or the other); should in no circumstance make you to downgrade and underrate yourselves when it comes to purpose and talent discovery. Never allow your predicaments to shut in door your talent against you because you are originally a paragon of excellence and success.
Below is a short story of CARLOS IBAY, the blind singer:
“Carlo Ibay was a young man whose strong connection to the heart of Jesus can be recognized through the many outlets of his ingenuity. He was born blind; but never saw his disability as a barrier in his life. He knew very well that despite he was blind; he had something in him that needed to be disposed. Gradually, he continued to discover and master something in himself for the benefit of people and also for the glory of GOD. Finally, he discovered music as his talent. It’s evidence in his life, his voice and his song. On a certain Sunday, seated high above the congregation in the loft of St. Michael Catholic Church in Am Andale, the self-taught organist glides his fingers across the keys of an organ as he sings memorized hymn after hymn in an unforgettable voice. You do see the grace of GOD flowing in him as he plays and sings…….!
Music was IBAY’s passion. He had been born blind since soon after birth. He had used his love and talent of music to inspire others to see the amazing work of GOD. He was born premature weighing a little less than two pound; Ibay spent his first three months of his life in an incubator. He lost his eye sight because of retinis pegmantosa, caused by too much oxygen in incubator. He represented every possible positive aspect of catholic faith. CARLOS was one of the greatest champions and finest ambassadors of the catholic faith you could possibly have his personality is irrepressible”.
Had he because of his disability stopped working and discovering his talent, would the world recognize him as he is today? Absolutely, it wouldn’t have been. He didn’t relent because he was blind. He asked GOD his purpose appealingly irrespective of his condition; and GOD made him to know and develop the potential in him. What is that condition you are in that is discouraging you from discovering your talent? Is it because you are dumb, blind, lame, paralyzed, deaf, dwarf, uneducated, from poor family? Name it! All the above predicaments are never, and can never be a hindrance to stop someone from discovering his or her talent if only we can acknowledge the quality in which we were made by GOD.
Everyone on earth has a special and natural gift from GOD. Remember, as we are different individuals; so also all our talent is different. The fact that you are lame, that you cannot play football any longer doesn’t mean you cannot write. It is true that you’re blind which may not allow you to become a mountain climber does not mean you cannot sing. Try at many things for you never know where your talent may be found.
As I said earlier, if we really discover and work on our talent, the sky will be our stepping stone and not our limit. The fact that you are clocking forty this year is not a barrier to actualize your real potential. The fact that no one in your family had ever made wealth or became the bread winner of the family does not mean you cannot become what you are created to be. You can be a change agent to your generation. And how can that be possible? It can only be possible when you are focused, determined, courageous and eager to discover your purpose of life. Don’t forget, you can only achieve whatsoever you are aiming to achieve when you keep your candle burning and never let out the light.
Obviously, if you don’t know who you are, you will never become who you should be. There is a saying that, “until purpose is discovered abuse is inevitable”. If you have never been puzzled by question like: what on earth am I here for? Or who am I? There is a problem in your life. You need to understand why you are here on earth and who you are. It is only that understanding that will stir you up to action of discovering and developing your talent. Once more, wisdom is the principal thing, understanding is life. If you fail to understand, you fail to undertake, and you will remain underway.
Surprisingly, in 2008 while we were in one crusade in Lagos state, I asked a young lad that, “what can he do best as his talent?” I know you may doubt this but it’s true. Do you know what he told me? He said, “in fact I don’t really know what I do best; I do everything”. You see? That is the problem we’re having in this country! We cannot tell, ascertain nor differentiate between what we do best and what we are not good at even at eighteen. It’s a pity!
However, I challenge you to examine, test and accredit yourself of what you can do best, today. You wait for no one to convince you, you convince yourself of what you can do best; and that is the recipe for moving from grass to grace. It is only self-determination, hardworking and self-discovering that will make you to ascertain your real potential in life.
For instance, you have a TV set, and you want to watch a particular program; but you can’t stand up from your comfort zone to turn on the TV set; you will be watching and the television itself will be watching you blankly. Except you strive and vacate your executive seat to put on the TV set, you will never watch the programme; so also with talent. Take a bold step to discover your talent, today; for it has been given to everyone. It lies there in your body dormant and crying for lack of discovery. Discover it today!
Just as I said earlier, the problem with many people nowadays is that, they want to be like every other successful persons, without thinking that there is a call for every one; why because they like their stars. But don’t forget that all fingers are not equal. You can never be me, and I can never be you. You are what you are, and I am what I am; so never imitate people, just emulate.
For instance, the three Nigeria hip hop singers, 2face idibia, blackface and faze formerly called plantation boys but now go solo. They were not all destined to be musicians. Sometimes, we choose wrong career thinking it’s our talent. The only talented musician among them is 2face. The rest were yet to discover their real talent. What am I insinuating? Faze did an album which the “originality” was barely manageable among the numerous tracks. And for blackface, he is nowhere to be heard anymore. You call these two talented musicians? Think very deep! There is a call for every one of us. If you miss your call, you have problem to unleash your potential in life.
Absolutely, there is time for everything in this life. I don’t think there is another day or year, that more important than today to start working and discovering your talent. As you are holding this book in your hands, begin to ask yourself this question: “what must be my talent, and what do I do best?” If you don’t know what suppose be your talent, you must know what you do best, Right? That is your talent! Act now! Action speaks louder than voice. You cannot become a lawyer without studying law. You cannot become a president without winning presidential election. Or had any one built a house without laying its foundation? Absolutely, no. Therefore, you can never become somebody without daring something.
Don’t be like the other lad who I asked that was confused with his life. The boy was confused because he didn’t know the purpose of his life. Never ask yourself if I have a talent, for everyone has one talent or the other. I have told you this many times before, and now I repeat it with tears→ there are many whose lives are nothing to write home about. There were many whose untapped talents were housed by cemetery for lack of early starting, knowledge of one’s life purpose and discovery of one’s talent. What irreparable lost untapped talents in the graveyard! But for you, because this book gets into your hand at the right time, you shall storm the world and your generation with prosperity, fame, greatness and riches as you take a step of discovering your talent. You shall never die with that great potential inculcated in you by your creator until you fulfill your destiny; because you are a paragon of success and eternity.
There is a saying that, “horse never value its tail until it’s cut off”. That is the problem with many youths nowadays. We value not what is in us. We only value others’ than ours. And that is the recipe for going nowhere in life. The very thing that could bring great benefits, create new opportunities, change your situation positively, and turn your world around for good is already being packaged right inside of you. No body will discover you for you. It is 100% your responsibility to do so. The first step to achieve anything in life is discovery. Discovery is the pathfinder to greatness. It is the foundation of success. Men of all great fame are all men of great discovery. Nobody becomes what he becomes without discovering his or her purpose of existence.
Look around yourself, your state, your country and the world at large; what do you see? Many things! Right? All you are seeing are been created and invented by men of great discoveries. Bill Gate invented computers and became the richest man on earth out of discovery. The Wright Brothers discovered their potential and invented plane that could carry people in the sky. And also, Henry Ford was going to be the least recognized in his family but he located what was in him and became the inventor of automobiles. To discover something is to search for something, and to search is not an easy task; so, if you really want to discover your talent you have got to work hard. Discovering one’s talent is like solving mathematics. Initially, it will give you tough time, but once the formulas are found, you will toy up mathematics like baby toys. In the same manner, it takes one time to discover his or her real purpose of existence; but what you need is hard work! If one is not hardworking, it may take him the whole year of his life to discover his potential. Remember, the hard work and perseverance of a farmer has plenty to offer him food to eat. Obviously, it is stupid to waste time on useless projects, women, drinking, useless chat, unnecessary phone call, useless companions while you can build your future.
If you can not do without women, drinking, unnecessary phone call, useless chat and others, you have long way to go. You need total commitment to your future if you really want to be great in life. The above uncalled-for acts will never allow you to think positive about your future.
What man can do, woman can also do better. Isn’t it? I was having what I called, “Teens’ opinions poll” discussion on general matter with some teens before this chapter was put together. In our dialogue, Justine, 17 years old stated that, “personally, I have never believed in talent or potential solely destined for someone by God, that is why I stress not myself to discover it; but I only do what pleases my body and what fetches me money. And it is nothing else than when I need some money, I boldly meet my men in exchange with my body. I use what I have to get what I need”. I was patiently waiting for her to pour out her mind because, in the Teen’s opinions poll, you don’t interrupt, everybody is allowed to speak his or her mind. After she had finished her dooming conclusion, I told her that she was wrong by inferring that way. That everybody has one talent or the other, but it might quite different from what one thinks that could be his or her talent. I also added that, “Not until she molests her body before men; that her beauty is an embodiment of greatness in the God’s creation. She can use it to become her talent by becoming model through beauty pageant”. I tell you, she reluctantly said, “hum, you said so o!”
However, it’s obvious that many of these days young girls think the same. The problem with many of them these days is that, it doesn’t even know the young or the old ones any longer. The same blood is running in their bloodstreams. That is why if, you go to Allen Avenue, Pen cinema, Obalende today, you will be surprised the way young girls are dressed in the name of making money. They no longer think how to unleash the real potential in their body than messing up their body with different kind of men.
There is nothing man can do that woman cannot do when it comes to talent discovery. I challenge all my female readers, to stop flirting and messing up your life all around in the name of making money. Think of what you can do better for your future! Create awesome future and legacy that when you are gone, your name will never be blot out of peoples’ mouth. You have something peculiar that the world is looking for. It could be through your beauty or your real gift as a woman. Locate it and the world will locate you. Nobody wants to respect or recognize you until you do something extraordinary. There are dormant abilities, reserved powers, and hidden talents bitterly crying for discovery in you. Discover them, and the infinite world will discover you today.
You are born to be a paragon of success. You cannot afford to die a failure. But don’t forget something; heaven helps those who help themselves. The great problem of a problem one will ever have is when he doesn’t know he has a problem. The problem with many people is that, they are all ignorant of their potentials. Remember, ignorance is a destiny killer. Kill it before it kills you. Destroy it before it destroys you. Massacre it before it massacres you. Don’t forget, out of ignorance, Moses was complaining to God for not having the ability to do fantastically well in the work entrusted to him. What was the question God asked him? He asked, “What are you holding? And he answered; “A →stick” Moses had been carrying this same stick for about 40 good years without discovering its power. It was the same stick that parted the red sea and brought water out of the rocks. You have the God’s given talent to be great, successful, but you need to work hard to discover it. Stop being an ignorant of your real potential.
Don’t just be like Moses who was ignorant of the stick he was holding for about 40 years without knowing that it was going to be an instrument to liberate Israelites from the cruel slavery.
As I said earlier, talent is not what you want or like to do; it’s what one does at ease without stressing himself. It might be something you never knew that could be your talent. Therefore, for you to discover your talent easily, you need to be good observant; for there are so many things you’re doing which you can not even think it could be your talent. One of the followings could be your talent:
► Creative thinking
► Sensing needs
► Good with numbers
► Good with words
► making things happen
► Athletics
► Mechanical
► working well with others
► Artistic
► Building things
► Memorizing things
► Decision making
► predicting what will happen
► accepting others
► Speaking
► Dancing
► Writing
► Singing
► Listening
► Humorous
► Comedy
► Trivia
Certainly I know many of you will look down on some of the above listed talents which you can discover and build in you, but note that, nothing is trivia as long as talent is concerned. The thing you see as trivia to be compared with talent may be the very thing that will skyrocket you to your greatness.
This is what a girl who discovered weeds as her talent shared with majority, “sincerely, I couldn’t believe that weed is my talent. All of a sudden, I become addicted to weeds love weed so much. I don’t mean the kind of weeds you do smoke, but the ones grow every where around you. I started picking them, and making different pictures and graphic work of them. I draw beautiful pictures of them, and place them outside our house. People started demanding for my work. I used the whole day drawing different pictures of flowers for people. The demand was so much that I could hardly see chance to do other things. So, I devoted my time drawing all the day for people. It’s now my talent, my living and my life”
Talent is not a big thing to crack brain for it, is not all big-time and lucrative business you were thinking while in primary school to be. Because I could remember while I was still in primary school, I would always say, I must study business administration to become a big time trader. But today, I find myself in writing I love writing so much; that is my talent! That is why the holy bible says, “Today I give you authority over nation and kingdoms to uproot and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.” All you need in life to excel has already been given to you. The way you use it will shape your life accordingly. If you use it well, it will shape your life positively; but if you don’t use it well it will shape your life negatively.
This is how to start to discover you talent. The first thing to do is to live in the moment. Never worry for what had happened to you in the past and don’t fear what has to happen in future. Plan as if you will live for ever but live as if you will die today. Don’t compare yourself will others. Everyone has some and different talents in their blood. Just try to realize that all of us have some unique skills and personality traits that give us high competence in some areas of our lives. Problem with many people these days is that, they fear a lot. Face your fear. If you face your fear you may come with an idea of your hidden talent. Whatsoever, you want to do, just do it. Do not restrain yourself from what your inner being says.
If you must to become somebody in life, you must pull off the cloth of shyness and face your challenges. Start that thing that you mind is always telling you now. Don’t be shy! You don’t need to be great to start, but you must start to be great. Everyone starts from somewhere. Be persistence in whatever you are doing for practice makes perfect. Never quit, for quitters never win; and winners never quit. Unleash your real potential and your enemies will be silenced.
Never stick to one thing. Try new thing for you never know where your hidden talent will be; and don’t worry what people will think or say of you. Because if people don’t talk about you bear it in mind that you never make a step in life. BILL COSBY, the American’s hottest living comedian once said, “If you don’t want to be criticized, be nothing and do nothing.” People must criticize you in whatever you just start as a novice, being a novice doesn’t mean you won’t become an expert tomorrow. You are you and that’s all that you need to be. If you really want to discover a talent, don’t act life professionals yet but always have confidence in yourself. Show your talent to everyone. Talk to your friends and ask them what they like about you the most.
Never confuse yourself. Talents are different from skills, in that they tend to be inmate rather than learned. Once it is found, they can be nurtured and developed but finding them can be tricky; it’s partly a process of self-observation and honesty. Once you find something you love to do, do more of it. By so doing you will also discover the depths of your talent. Your throne had nobody to sit on it before, but now that you are on motion to locate your purpose; it will cause you to sit on the throne destined for you by your God
Nobody has ever become somebody without discovering his/her purpose of existence; discover it and the world will discover you.
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