Your hidden skills are the secret to your success.
How you do the small things is how you’ll do the big ones - and nothing is off limits.
The truth is that you’re an expert in all kinds of things. No, really! You can pretend that you’re only an expert in what you do for work, but I know the truth: you’re amazing, friend! ☺️
In order to be successful with your goals, start by looking at where you’re already successful.
How did you achieve prowess in this area? What strategies did you use to learn this concept and practice this skill? All we need is a little humility.
Humility means being honest:
Honest about what you're good at.
It's not doing yourself or anyone else any favors to pretend that you're not good at anything.
We all know you have quite a few talents.
They ALL count, no matter how weird, niche, or fringe.
What are you good at?
Mediating between friends or siblings who are upset with each other? Making a mean smoked old-fashioned? Scrambling eggs without burning them?
I wasn't kidding when I said everything counts. 😅
Start thinking about all the things you can do that give you that amazing feeling of satisfaction: where you look at it and think “wow, I did such a good job."
This includes soft skills like communication, organization, and relationship management and more “concrete” skills like reading really fast, typing accurately, and soldering.
What crafts can you do?
What things can you build? Or fix? Or take apart?
What can you cook, paint, sew, play, organize, listen to, clean, draw, make, design, grow, care for?
Where do you shine?
What are you kind of embarrassed to be good at?
Don't worry, I won’t tell. Can you chug a keg? Turn your tongue inside out? Wiggle your ears or your nose? Peel boiled eggs without shredding them? (Hey, it's a skill.)
Even the things other people might call “weird” are clues to the inner you.
Maybe it's something you think is fun. Or maybe you just have a knack for it and you don't know why. Or maybe you secretly feel really strongly about doing it the ✨right way✨ so you practiced until you were amazing, but nobody else cares that much.
No, you aren't going to be using every single one of these skills in your business.
But thinking about them opens up your brain to start considering ALL the options. Nothing is off limits, not good enough, or too weird.
Creative brainstorming is dependent on the ability to see every possible scenario, no matter how outrageous.
Sometimes this world needs a little outrageous.
📋To Do
Journal through the following:
1. What are you good at? Make a list of at least 50 things, and keep going if you have more.
- Yes, you are absolutely good at 50 things.
- No, you can't copy over your resume and call it good enough (what you are good at and what you can get paid for are two different things).
2. Look for patterns
- What general categories do most of your skills revolve around?
- Do you lean more towards physically active things, or quiet introspective things?
- Do you like interacting with people or being more on your own?
- Are your skills based in mental work or hand work?
3. Summarize your findings
- Write an entry in your journal summing up all the things you are good at, as well as how you feel about it. Was it a revelation? Same old, same old?
If you didn’t know this about yourself before, you don’t have any reason to beat yourself up for not knowing. You learn things when it’s time to know them and not before.
If you DID know this already and just haven’t acted on it yet, that tells you that there’s something else standing in your way. Fear of change or the unknown? Not wanting to leave people who disapprove of you making the most of these talents? Not sure where to start?
How will you overcome these objections? Or are you happy with your life the way it is?
4. Evaluate how you built those skills
- Not only do these skills show you what sort of work you’d enjoy, but it can provide the clues to how you learn the best.
- How did you learn these skills? What processes did you use - regular practice time, lots of book reading, watching someone do it and then trying it yourself?
- When it’s time to learn a new skill you need for your work, use this method of learning to make it easier.
👉 This exercise is part of the Seed Level Mini-Course & Workbook.
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