Are you Using Your Talent?

In this world, people belong to three categories:
1. Who has talent – (Everyone has)
2. Who knows they have talent. – (Some of us knows)
3. Who actually use their talent – (Only a few qualify
here)

When we are young and finishing our education, we knows
what makes us alive. We believe in our dreams. We know
our specialities. Often we forget our talent when we choose
our profession based merely on our educational qualification
and certificate. We neglect our interest and specialization
and our talent start vanishing.
Have you ever asked yourself, what is your talent? Do you
doubt if you have any? Which category you fall into? Let us
discover.
Everyone has Talent:
Everyone is born with potential to do extraordinary in life.
Unfortunately, we settled ordinary. When someone asks
what our talent is, we think for a while and say that we do
not have any talent.
In most cases, we have never tried to explore our talent.
Everyone is unique in one way or other. Even if you examine
a person with disabilities, you will find something special
within him. Therefore, Never ever, doubt your existence in
this world.
Sometimes we simply forget it. Do you remember when you
buy some festival stuff to decorate your home? You use it
for a few days and then keep it in store to use it later. Many
years later when you are cleaning your home, you
eventually find your stuff. Then you realize that you almost
forget it.
If you do not use things for a while, you certainly forget
about them. The same happen with talent. Do you forget
something that was your speciality once? Let us see how to
find the gift that nature given us.
Identify your Talent:
As Buddha said, “Everyone is gifted here, but some of us
never opened their package”. Have you opened your
package?
Where can you find your talent? You can find it in your
hobbies. You may be born with some natural gift. You can
find your talent in your skills acquired during education. It
may be in the form of writing, speaking, programming,
designing, painting, singing, or managing employees or
customer. It may be decorating home or cooking. It could
be anything.
Sometimes we simply ignore our talent because it seems an
ordinary thing to us. For an example as a homemaker, you
prepare food for your family. You know that you cook well
and you like it doing. Therefore, you might be asking
yourself, “How can it be a talent? This is my regular work
and every homemaker like me is doing it.”
There should be no question to talent as big, small or
ordinary talent. A talent is a talent. If anyone asks you, what
your talent is? Say it proudly that, “I can cook well”. If you
appreciate your talent, you give it a new direction to evolve.
You never know where it may take you in your life.
If you have finished your education and do not yet know
your talent, you are getting too late. If you are doing
business or pursing job and do not know your talent, you
are fooling yourself. One third of your life already passed
and you do not know what you really want to do in this
world?
Do not wait too long. Trust your instinct and follow your
heart. Identify once and trust on it. You can always sharp
your talent by learning required skills later.
Use your talent:
It is Showtime now; use your talent. Once you identify your
calling of heart, do not sit idle . Do not hold your talent
waiting for the perfect time or more opportunities. As Ivan
Panin said, “Not he deserves praise that has talents, but he
that uses them.”
Talent will not work, if you do not. It will not inspire you if
you do not take any action about it. The joy is not in
dreaming about your talent, but in using that talent. Use
your talent. Take the first step and explore the dimensions.
“Talent is never static. It’s always growing or
dying.” ~ Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly 
“Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving
around until you’ve discovered what it is.” ~
George Lucas
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“We are not in a position in which we have nothing
to work with. We already have capacities, talents,
direction, missions, callings.” ~ Abraham H.
Maslow
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“With ordinary talents and extraordinary
perseverance, all things are attainable.” ~ Sir
Thomas Fowell Buxton
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“Everyone has talent. Little know it and a few use
it. That is where greatness differs.” ~ Deepak
Rajpal