Don’t try to put in what God left out. Instead, strive to draw out what God left in.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.
The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them but to reveal theirs to them.
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.
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?
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.
Source: quote-book
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.
Source: simtan
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.’
Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
