YOUR TALENT AN UNTAPPED GOLD MINE

What do you love doing? What are you passionate about? What is your talent?

What is a talent? A talent is an unusual natural ability to do something well and it can be developed through training. Everybody has a talent (even the Berger down the streets has a talent). Everybody is born with a talent an unusual natural ability. Even though we all have talents, not everybody is able to identify it in themselves. Because this unusual natural ability is often common to its owner, coupled with the fact that it’s usually underdeveloped.

Have you watched the movie X-MEN? (Hot action movie). The movie X-men features superhuman characters with, unique abilities. My favorite is a character called doctor X leader of the X-men, he can read minds. I wish I can read your mind now but, what will I see? hmm…….. . The movie is totally fictional as you know and our talents cannot be that spectacular. However, many people do things that seem supernatural to other people. For example; the computer or phone we all use is the product of very talented people. Over 200 years ago using a phone, computer or even electricity would be impossible; in fact, thinking of such ideas-a phone that used to talk to another person in another part of the earth, a computer or even electricity-would be insane. But, the talented scientist of the past believed it was possible to invent a phone, computer, electricity and many other inventions, they loved what they did, they were passionate about it and made it happen. I say thank you them.

As stated earlier the sad thing about talent is the inability to recognize it. A very powerful talent, comparable to inventing a phone, computer, internet and electricity can lie dormant through out a person’s life. For example, I have this friend who constantly complaints about the obvious talents of others like singers, actors, comedians and spots people. He sees nothing special about himself. But, this is a guy that, if he enters a place for some unexplained reason everybody immediately likes him, I have tried to copy him, with much painful effort, yet I can’t seem to do it. Yet this guy feels he has no talent, this guy is such a social guy, he does it effortlessly. You will agree with me that, he has an amazing talent (his practically a one man social network). Yet he doesn’t recognize his ability as a talent, his heart recognizes it but his mind cannot see it.

A talent is an untapped gold mine, if you are able to recognize and develop it. A talent is usually something you love doing, a talent is something you do that all your friends talk about. It’s something that is so easy for you but very difficult for others. Your talent could be as simple as being able to keep white cloths, white for years or being able to naturally save money or being able to take care of animals There this guy on the national geographic channel that is so good with dogs, he can examine the behavior of your dogs and tell you if they are friends or enemies if they are sad or happy. That’s his talent. Talents come in different sizes, and different shapes. You can become very rich by using your talent productively. Harnessing the gold ore from it.

Identifying your talent is one thing developing your talent is another. In the next article in will discus how you can develop your talent.

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THE REAL WAY TO BUDGET YOUR MONEY

 

Budget, the dreaded b-word (may be not to you, but to some people) making and sticking to budget is tedious work, it’s tedious because it requires two things: mental strength and self-control. (In a preceding article I gave what I believe are the benefits of self-control).

Why does making and sticking to a budget require mental strength and self-control? I think that, Budgeting requires knowing little about numbers, as well as trying to think into the future. These require mental strength. Budgeting also, requires controlling the natural physiological desires. This natural physiological desires to eat, sleep, attraction to what I see and to procreate, hmm….. These desires don’t come with and off and on buttons, the only way to on and off my desires is the mind, using the mind to initiate self-control. Because basically it’s easy to write a budget, I can  arrange my spending to the last penny, but will the natural desires I have allow a me to follow and stick to my  budget when I live in a “ world of stuff beckons” every product is attractive,  aimed at making me spend, spend. (I admit that, this is difficult for me to do).

In the book multiple streams of income by Robert Allen the 2^nd edition (if you wish to get your financial life organized read that book, the information there is priceless) Allen outlines seven financial secrets, the second secret-to control money. He gives a simple principle, a simple shift in perspective- thinking of your cash flow (money coming to you) as streams and the money you spend as leaks. Controlling this streams and leaks is the essence of your personal financial organization.

A budget can help you become financially free, but a real budget is the level of self-control you have and ability of your mind to keep track of your spending. This may sound stressful, and many may decide to just go with the flow, making a lot excuses, like, I don’t have a head for math’s, my spouse takes care of that stuff, none of my friends do it (too bad for them). I think that, excuses will only help increase debt, I mean bad debt. There are people who will be deep in debt for years, and being in debt leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

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CONVERTING FINANCIAL FAILURES OR MISTAKES TO FINANCIAL SUCCESS

FAILING, no body likes failing anything, many even hate the word “fail”. This, in my opinion, is because of the pain attached to failing. It’s a fact, that all living things- humans and animals- move away from pain to pleasure (may be only the masochist). This may not sound so sweet for even me to say, but, for big success you must have some failures.

 Humans are imperfect, and despite our quest for excellence our imperfect nature makes us make mistakes (maybe that’s why every pencil is made with an eraser, so that we can erase our mistakes). The truth is that mistakes and failures are part of life.

But, sad to say that many see making mistakes or failing as bad, in our schools the child is severely punished for making a mistake or his parents severely punish him for failing his exams, and he grows up with the fear of making mistakes or failing.

Failures and mistakes has being the building block of every civilization and invention. Take Thomas Edison a very ingenious famous inventor, you may have read about him, Edison is the inventor of the incandescent lamp, which serves as a model for many light bulbs we see today. Edison failed or made mistakes hundreds of times while trying to invent the incandescent lamp. But, each mistake ended up making him a legend. He converted his failures or mistakes to success by learning from them. Or take Christopher Columbus and ingenious Italian- born Spanish navigator, he experienced failures while trying to find a route to the indices. He converted his failure to success by discovering America. Both Edison and Columbus understood that failure played a role in being successful.  

In the book rich dad poor dad by Robert kiyosaki a New York Times best selling author, he said that “his rich dad constantly used the example of learning to ride a bicycle to teach him the lesson in mistakes”. You will, agree with me that you can’t teach a person how to ride a bicycle but, the person can learn, so it is with financial success, you can’t teach a person how to be successful but, the person can learn how to be successful.

Learning how to ride a bicycle requires injuries, pain, mistakes or failures, when you do learn it you start riding like a pro and you can even go pro. Same goes for being financially successful it requires, pain, mistakes and failures, but, when you become financially successful you will not trade the mistakes and failures for anything. Simply put, you can’t have big success without failures and mistakes.

The biggest failure is a person, who has never failed and a person who never learns from his mistakes and failures. Imagine an individual on a farm land seriously angry with the ground, stumping and punching the ground; you walk up to him to ask what the problem is? He says “just look at this ground, two years ago I planted corn expecting beans, it gave me corn, last year the same thing, this year the same thing. I believe you will agree with me that, the individual is insane. This is how many people try to solve their financial problems. Albert Einstein said “ insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result”  with that definition a person does not have to be in an asylum with a straight jacket before he or she can be considered insane).

Please let no body make you believe that, because you failed in a particular activity, you are a failure. If you make mistakes while you try to improve your skills, you are on your way to being excellent and successful. I will repeat it again; mistakes and failures make you successful. But if you keep on making the same mistake over and over and over again and never learning from them, then I would have to admit that you are a failure.

In this game of trying to earn a living, in trying to make money you need to accept your imperfections, your tendency to make a mistake. This is a realistic way to of understanding how to cope with your failures or mistakes and to convert them to success.

I wish you the best. Thanks for reading this article.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTATION FOR THE WEEK

THERE ARE THOUSANDS TO TELL YOU IT CAN’T BE DONE, THERE ARE

THOUSANDS TO PROPHESY FAILURE, THERE ARE THOUSANDS TO POINT OUT TO

YOU ONE BY ONE THE DANGERS THAT WAIT TO ASAIL YOU, BUT JUST BUCKLE

IN WITH A BIT OF A GRIN, JUST TAKE OFF YOUR COAT, GO TO IT JUST START TO

SING AS YOU TACKLE THING “THAT CANNOT BE DONE” AND YOU WILL DO IT.

CONTROLLING YOURSELF (SELF-DISCIPLINE) THE FIRST STEP TO RICHES

 

Aristotle a Greek philosopher said “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is the victory over self. Many people will never be financially rich because they are conquered by themselves, their desires emotions and passions. They are not able to control themselves which, is the first step to riches. We see big salary earners deep in bad debt; we see many even among the rich and famous losing their wealth to an addiction, ruining their health, and loosing effectiveness and skill.

A car without a steering wheel is a death trap; a boat without a compass is practically lost at sea. Controlling yourself puts you at the steering wheel of your life; it gives you a compass to navigate your riches successfully. A person without control of himself or herself will not be able to make and successfully multiply his or her money. No man or woman is free, who are not masters over themselves. If you want riches, and an ever flowing torrent of wealth, you will have to master yourself, your desires, your emotions, your mind and your body.

Sad to observe, many lottery winners end losing all their money and ending up poorer than, when they won the lottery. A major reason for this is that, they never understand the first step to riches-self-discipline; they never learn how to control themselves when they spend the little money they had before. As dangerous as a car is, without a steering wheel, even more dangerous is a car with a driver who dose not know how to drive, adding more fuel to the car will only increase the speed of death to the driver. The same is true for people like, lottery winners who suddenly win big money, who don’t know how to control their spending, their emotions, their impulses, their mind and body.

I would have to admit that, developing self-control is not an easy task; in fact it’s a life long quest. Self-control is war fought against self, in the silent confines of you. But, the fact remains that if you are able to gain and maintain self-control, riches will flow to you. For riches flow to those who win the war against themselves and flows from those who loss and continue to loss the war against self.

There is no gain in making a lot of money only, to loss it to an addictive substance or to an uncontrolled spending spree or to dubious people patiently waiting to sue you for one uncontrolled action on your part.

                                                                                                                                              

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A TRIBUTE TO MY READERS

Have you ever watched a game without spectators? You will agree with me that, it will be as lively as a grave yard. Ever seen a product that no body bought? It will be a DOA dead on arrival. Products are nothing without its consumers, a country is nothing without its citizens. This blog is nothing without you my readers, I want to take this opportunity to thank you my readers for taking time to read the articles in this blog. Plus, I will like to read your views on the information in the articles, your questions and your criticisms too will be highly appreciated.

HOW TO BE CREATIVE

As you are aware the major function of the human brain is to THINK, to be creative involves not just thinking but creative thinking. To properly understand how to think creatively, understanding how the brain functions, will help you become a creative thinker and will ultimately increase the amount of money you make.

THE BRAIN

The average human’s brain is a 1.3 mass of pinkish gray jelly like tissue that’s made up of 100 billion nerve cells. Scientist say no matter how intelligent a person is, he or she will never gets to use all his nerve cells. When a baby is born its brain is not divided, but as the baby reaches five years or less the brain divides into two (may be this explains why little children are so creative). The brain is divides into two hemispheres- a right and left hemisphere. These hemispheres are partially separated by a deep fold called the longitudinal fissure.

The left and right hemisphere of the brain are responsible for certain distinct intellectual functions. The right brain controls the emotions, musical awareness, artistic intellect, a humans spatial concept and the left hand. Many musicians and artist have highly developed right brains. The left brain controls logic (both deductive and inductive reasoning) spoken and written language, scientific skills and the right hand.

Combining the left and right brain while thinking makes, a person to be a creative thinker, this ability to combine the left and right hemispheres of the brain results in a new thought pattern which creates expressions unlike any other,  that could make a person RICH.

HOW TO COMBINE THE LEFT AND RIGHT BRAIN WHILE THINKING

As stated above, the left brain controls logical reasoning and the right brain controls emotions. Combining the two will produce an emotional logical thought. A logical thought combined with any positive emotions such as love, will produce a result that will amaze you.

People say that if do something because of duty you do it well, but, when you do something for someone you love or because you love what you do, you do it beautifully. A positive emotion mixed with logical thinking is what makes a person creative.

Ever thought about the uniqueness of many inventions like cars, jets, phones and many modern gadgets. They simply come from emotional logic.

Please note that becoming a creative thinker is not an over night development, it takes time to develop. To gain and maintain a creative mind follows a step by step natural process, so that it becomes a part of you not just a one time thing.  I another article I will discuss this step by step natural process for developing a creative mind.

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