How to Develop Talents

Your talents are compliments to your life; they reflect and tend to bring out the hidden resources from within that if not tapped into will just lay idle. Talents developed enhance a sense of well being because one feels they have brought to fruition their talents, hobbies and interest. It is of uttermost importance to be patient with one’s self as you work on developing a talent.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

1. Study and understand who you are, knowing your strengths and weaknesses will enable
   Make an elaborate list of your areas of interest, hobbies, dreams and established talents. What you write will motivate you and remind you of some of your deep dreams and wishes. Take time to understand that you are an endless resource of imagination and can develop a simple thought into a fascinating project if you commit yourself to the project.
2. Create a schedule of the hobbies you would want to pursue and the times and places you can allocate you hobbies into your calendar and year. Hobbies and heart felt talents can be pushed aside by daily demands and cares and before long one looks back and regrets the dreams they allowed to fade away. There schedule time for fun whilst developing one’s talent/s
3. Make a resolution to empower your self each day by making an investment into your talent even if you start off with ten minutes a day. It takes some planting of seed before the full tree blossoms; therefore do not trivialize your initial trials and effort to develop your talent.
4. Take time to research about a hobby or talent you wish to develop so that you utilize the available resources. Remembers to enjoy the process! Just remember that ants build anthills that weather the storms and the rain, yet they build there empires one grain of sand at a time.
5. Implement the talent development projects. Attend workshops and exhibits to enhance your talent where possible. Take time to laugh at one’s set backs and use them to come up with new ideas or innovations.
6. Take time to salute your efforts, achievements and steps. Keep track of your progress by going back to your other areas of interest and talents development schedules so that you it a hobby doesn’t become a long grinding road. Keep your talent as a hobby and you will have the momentum to keep developing it to excellence.
7. Set goals regarding your talent and set out markers of daily, weekly or monthly progress to celebrate you progress and re-strategize where necessary depending on the project. Monitoring your progress helps you keep track of your talent development process.
   Pair up with someone with similar hobbies so that you can encourage each other, and maintain momentum.

Tips & Warnings

• Develop a talent to enhance oneself, whether there is an audience or not. Do not entertain voices of discouragement; instead take a break periodically so that you can start again refreshed. Avoid doing too much at one time, pace your self to avoid feeling overwhelmed. Schedules help in building momentum.