Perfecting your imperfections

“Practice is the best of all instructors”::::: Publilius Syrus.

Research conducted in different parts of the world has shown that many successful and happy people do what their natural body system (including their mind and spirit) is best suited for. They are (always) at the center of their God-given profession; trading their natural skills. They are traders of their talent.
They do what they know best. They are also in their natural habitat during performance of their act. That is why well over 90% of basketballers (both male and female) are tall. So also the best preachers are orators and all scientists have inquisitive minds.
Interestingly, everybody have one natural gift or the other. That means everyone has a talent e or she can trade with. There is something of valve in every human being on the earth. God will not send anyone to this world without (inherently) equipping the person with the necessary tools of survival and distinction.
Your natural gift could be tangible, such as your physical appearance, it could also be intangible such as an idea or a burning desire in your mind (brain). I t could even be the manner of your communication or how you handle issues (mindset). Whatever it is, there is evidently a desire yearning for the expression inside of you, which if properly tapped into can bring about unending financial progress in your life. For example, many authors are still collecting royalties on their works even at old age. However, the intensity of the yearning could subside if you refuse to act on it. It is not my wish, however that you get to that stage and hence I am writing this piece.
Since every human being has a ‘talent’ to trade, the greatest challenge confronting each individual therefore, is to be able to locate his or her talent and natural gift. So, self-discovery is the greatest avenue for successful living.

Now to locate your talent

1. Inspiration
This is the stimulation or illustration of your mind and your creative abilities to execute a profitable idea, and if the idea is properly worked on, it could land you in wealth and fortune.
Have you heard of the multimillion-dollar business of Kenturkey Fried Chicken started by a retired army officer, Colonel Sanders? He got an idea (inspiration) about a uniquely fried chicken recipe. He believed the idea could work. Before then his restaurant was going bankrupt because the main highway was routed elsewhere. So, when he got his first social security cheque, he decided to make more selling his special chicken recipe. Despite his initial setbacks, today Colonel Sanders is a multimillionaire.
So what idea (inspiration) have you received recently? How are you going about executing those ideas? Never allow any profitable idea die within you. Ask questions. Look for ways to make it work. Learn whatever you need to know to make the idea work. If Colonel Sanders have not taken action on is idea, he might still be relying on the meager social security cheque, instead of becoming a millionaire. Learn to work on your inspiration.


2. Interest
Some person has special interest in crying out certain activities outside their normal day work. Those activities give them great pleasure and satisfaction and they excel in them (relative) ease. If you are one of those people, such activities could be your talent.
Chinue Achebe (Lecturer, Author and Poet) gained admission to the then university college Ibadan (now university of Ibadan) in 1948 to study medicine, but along the line he discovered his true interest and switched to literature and graduated with a second class degree. Today, he has become famous and won many awards writing novels by responding to his innate interest. Do not allow your normal day’s job becloud your inherent interest. Ask yourself what drives your interest. What are you willing to do that even if you are not paid for, you will continue to do? Wherever your interest lies is where your “real” money is. Your interest is your gift and your talent. Until you truly discover yourself, you are only surviving. It is time to begin to live purpose driven to life, which can only come via self-discovery of your “personal interest”.

How to enhance your talent
1. Training
Training is the art of teaching a person to perform a particular skill well. Your raw talent (whether you are an orator, a sport person or a naturally intelligent person) requires training. Your raw skill needs to be refined and harnessed for optimum performance. It is when crude oil becomes refined petroleum that is has greater valve. Training is a process of transformation i.e. transforming your raw skill into sophistication, for your profiting.
However, athletic or tall you may be, you cannot call yourself a great basketballers without undergoing rigorous training. Training is all about practicing the necessary skills to achieve competence in the art. The attainment of excellence performance is time consuming, but I’ll advice you to be ready to take the time.
Brain Tracy despite being a very accomplished speaker, still devotes 10 days in a year to improving his already prodigious speaking skills. Constant practice is one of the secrets to becoming masterful at anything.
2. Concentrated attention
If you give it what it takes, you will get what you want. The perfection of every art is time consuming. Therefore, you need to concentrate your attention and time to the achievement of a singular purpose. Jack of all trade is a master of none. But Jack of one trade will be a master of one. You can get to the top with your talent if you stay focused on perfecting your skills. All that Tiger Wood does is golfing; all other activities are delegated. This clearly shows that when your talent is given the required “brushing” you will shine like a star.
The essence of this write-up is to make you to take massive, focused and congruent actions that will lead you to achieve overwhelming results. This article is about you producing results! Simple.
3. Unremitting In Effort:

If your thirst and desire to attain excellence, which is a vital key to success, is strong enough, you will not relent in your effort at taking consistent action towards the attainment of your desire.
Success in life is all about taking action toward the desired direction. After being inspired, you must translates inspiration into success. Action is it that produces successful results. If you don’t get it right the first time, try the second time. If you still don’t get it right, try again. Keep working it until it works. Go for a counter attack and try it again. Afterall, Thomas Edison (Scientist) tried 10,000 times before he could come out with the right formular that produced the electric bulb. There is a famous story about him that after he tried 9,999 times to perfect the light bulb and hadn’t succeeded, someone asked him, “Are you going to have ten thousand failures?” He answered “I didn’t fail; I just discovered another way not to invent the electric bulb”. He was unremitting until he succeeded. When you have the will, there will always be a way.
When you enhance your talent to a brilliant level, and you work hard with a continuous desire for perfection, you will be standing where your mates are seated. Wherever they are standing, you will become outstanding and even if some of them are outstanding too, you will stand out, you will become the standard to measure their performance! Nothing will be strong enough to stop your forward march. My greatest desire is that anybody that read this piece will strive for and still make great impact this year.
According to Michael Masterson, there is one secret to becoming masterful with your talent. And that is to practice…and then practice… and then practice even more. Your will succeed!