Embrace Your Uniqueness
Saturday, 01 January 2011 01:12 | 
Written by Lillian Chebosi | 
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Volume 01 Issue 13: Embrace Your Uniqueness
God has given each of us the ability to do certain things well. There are certain things that come naturally to each of us. Things that we not only do with ease but we also have fun doing. It could be organizing, cooking, entertaining, educating, motivating, decorating, designing, landscaping, I certainly couldn’t begin to try to exhaust the list. We have jobs that we endeavour to do well and be outstanding at, and rightly so. A job is what we are trained to do, a skill we sharpen along the way. But there is at least one thing that each of us is uniquely good at. It is our gift. It is the thing that people praise you for, yet to you it’s not a big deal. People who take for granted what you do well and don’t want to lend a hand usually say something like “You have a touch for hosting. Why don’t you host the next meeting as well?” But if you think about it, it isn’t just a touch. It is a gift but you still have to work hard at it to do it well. A gift unattended is not good for anything.
God has built in each of us talents for specific purposes. If you haven’t already, find your natural talent endowments and sharpen them to limits of outstanding excellence. Every gift or talent is a solution to someone’s problem. When you utilize your gift, you become a solution provider to someone, an answer to their prayer. Someone’s need may never be met until you get started utilizing your gift. Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.
It does not matter what you are good at. What matters is your discipline to exercise your God given talent and strive to be the best by diligently working on it over and over again. Take the risk to serve your talents to a world that may at first seem disinterested.
Lillian Chebosi