Don’t try to put in what God left out. Instead, strive to draw out what God left in.
God’s thumbprints ON you are clues about His plans FOR you.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Have you discovered your gift? And if so, have you decided to invest your life giving it away?
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A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If fame comes at all it will come because fame is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
3 Myths and Truths About Your Strengths
The fulfillment of your dream will require you to, on a consistent basis, use your strengths. World renown “strengths expert” Marcus Buckingham defines a strength as:
Strength: Any activity that makes you feel strong.
The following are 3 Myths and 3 Truths (as outlined by Marcus Buckingham) about your strengths that will hopefully “free you” to use your strengths more often:
Myth 1: As you grow your personality changes.
Truth 1: As you grow you become more of who you already are.
Key ?: What strengths have become more evident as you have grown older?
Myth 2: You grow the most in your areas of greatest weakness.
Truth 2: You grow the most in your areas of greatest strength.
Key ?: What strengths have you seen the most growth in?
Myth 3: A great team member puts his strengths aside and does whatever it takes to help the team.
Truth 3: A great team member volunteers his strengths to the team most of the time.
Key ?: Which of your strengths adds the most value to your team?
I’d Like to Know…
What are your strengths?
This Venn diagram is genius. I will very likely use this as a teaching tool to inspire dreams for the rest of my life!
(photo via bridgettelizabeth)
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Your gifting will get you through the door your character will sustain you.
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.
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God has created us and our gifts for a place of his choosing, and we will only be ourselves when we are finally there.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
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