Now let’s talk about talent.
This is something we hear a lot about as well when we talk about careers and what we want to do with our lives. Sometimes you hear the word talent expressed as “strength”.
Talent contributes to the mechanics of your passion and purpose – the HOW.
For example, a person may identify a passion of empowering others to change their lives – and a purpose of working specifically with disenfranchised population.
I have a friend who is this type of person – he discovered his passion for teaching personal leadership to people that society would sooner forget – youth at risk and people in slums. His talent is in communicating in a workshop type of setting – and his years as a teacher have helped hone this talent so that he could deliver his passion and purpose to the very people he wants to help.
Talent can be one overarching skill, or a composite of complementary skills.
For me, writing is a big deal, because this is one of the most effective ways I can express myself as well as speaking in public.
Thus, to deliver my passion and purpose to the people who needs my message the most, I use a combination of teaching, speaking, and writing. Someone else may prefer to influence by writing. Filmmakers influence using media.
So talent is really the dimension that can be best assessed using various tools asking you what types of activities you enjoy doing.
Now that you have identified your passion, purpose, and talent – you need to know how to make it all happen. For the most part, these 3 dimensions are more inductively derived. The next part is about deduction and analysis – (or the next 2 dimensions) – and these include planning (or goal setting) and measuring results (metrics).
You can know your purpose and passion and talent – but if you do not have a plan to put them into action – then not much is going to happen, and certainly not as much as much as when you proactively plan a course of action.
